Quote Originally Posted by drone
I think they just released RTW too soon, it needed at least another 6 months of work (and probably another 3 months in QA/public beta).
Six months more work is what I estimated as well, but it's really hard to say. The game has become so complex that it can't be finished in the development time available. I saw Jerome's web site before he removed the pages which advertised his talent for fast track design of large programs. As an engineer, I know that quality in the final product suffers when you move to fast track design. RTW v1.0 had more problems compared to the initial release of STW or MTW. The original STW v1.0 was delayed more than a year before it was released.