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I just groaned when I read October update - Chris West has spent the last
month fully detailing a 1968 car transporter - right down to a highly
detailed chassis!

I'm sure that just about everyone who has seen they update has had the same
reaction - how about some priorities - we just want a car we can drive
before next decade!

To be fair, he did explain in last month's update that his brother is doing
all the complex coding and physics side of things, so devitating a bit on
the graphics side won't hold the project up. However, I think they need to
learn a bit of PR - most people won't know that, and will groan just like I
did.

Cheers,
Tim

It's going to 100% perfect physics, graphically correct down to the last
bolt, but just require the whole god dam internet to run the thing on
one machine. Oh and skynet to control the AI :))

"During the next month we plan to get the user interface up and working and
I hope to get some more done on the transporter."

Now in the previous update it was stated that he wanted to do more on the
312, now diverted to the ***y transporter!

Perhaps we should have a quick poll, what would you like to see most from
the RL development team:

1/ A customisable text rendering system for the user interface

2/ A realistic Reliance Swift transporter fully rendered

3/ A car in motion on a track (preferably in a demo) - we'll have the
updated interface and transporter in later releases.

Awe which one... the transporter is very nice, the customisable user
interface is way ***, oh I can't make up my mind...

Now I wish these guys the best of luck and I want to be first in the queue
when something drivable is out but if the RL site is for racing sim
enthusiasts (can it be for anyone else?) then surely someone there should
realise that garages, transporters and interfaces are not on the target
audiences priority list! Finishing touches maybe.

Cheers
Tony

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Mike
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   Tony it seems you and everyone else are expecting something to be
released soon.  From reading the snippets here, they have a long ways to
go, so 'getting a car to drive' just isn't a short term do-able item.  They
are doing it their own way, let them...everyone here seems to want to be a
Producer and TELL the Westies what they can and can't do.  
  IF or WHEN RL is released, then fine, goody, great...but until then, just
let it go....relax....find your center...It just seems to me that a bunch
of us carping about their priorities won't make much of an impact on the
Wests.  We'll see RL or we won't,  now go play Half Life 2 until RL comes
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dave henrie

Totally agree, but you have to admit, it's not hard to see why Empire dumped
them from the WSC project - they really do have a bizarre way of going about
their business.

Bruce.

"Nothing to show for their time" was one of the official lines.

Now there's no publisher, no one to push them, so things are going to take a
looooong time :)

Max Payne 2 is filling in the time nicely....what a game!

-massivechicken

To a casual simmer (me) with no programming experience, it would look
like the West's either have a wicked sense of humor and simply want us
wondering "did those guys really spend a month on a bus!!?" or... is
the RL site periodically updated as entertainment while so they can
read posts like this while they go about their lives doing something
other than developing RL?  Just wondering...

I thought the RL development cycle was long until I visited the Sagrada
Familia in Barcelona (started in the 1880s and projected to be completed in
2023).  Of course, perhaps like RL, it was initially developed in a
competely haphazad fashion, with Gaudi living on-site and assuming full
"artistic" control, designing new structures on the fly, often doing a 180
on several important half-finished concepts.  It was also entirely funded by
private donations....

Stephen