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Istvan, I'm not saying that progress has not been done in the fields I (we) care. But I just notice the tendency, some months ago you'd see in the beta forums more often stuff NOT related to new aircraft. But I noticed that this sort of stuff cames much seldom NOW on the beta forums, instead new AC threads.
You've got some points but i' ll comment one (though it has general meaning):

"#1 improving AI routines
Could we do better then Oleg? I doubt it... plus there arent many Ai programmers around I'm afraid "


You see, Oleg is a company and it must do things such that there's a good compromise between effort and results. He can't afford allowing too many resources going one direction. But we have limitless resources! Digression: I thought of course about why many standard maps are so lifeless, some of them have even geographical mistakes, well this is why, the lack of resources and the lack of time, I cursed Oleg and co for various il2 things, but it has to come to mods era to understand and NOT to curse anymore! Just think how much time does it take to have a new map now!
BUT: unlike Oleg and co, we are a very very big "company" and we have many talents. :!: What are these talents doing? And why?

I think if we want to improve thing further we need also some professional help, for example:

first thing I'd ask from a real game developer is to implement the HDR/Bloom effects already available for the DirectX, serious programming job...I'm sure Olegs or another dev team could do it