Anyway, I'm glad the whole S1/2/3 thing is clear now (at least for me) it is just to make clear how much of the available content you can use, not the 'stage' the game is in. So now we can all stfu about it
Well LFS doesn't run on my laptop anymore.. something with crossover got screwed when i updated to 10.6.. but i'll be getting a S3 license as soon as it's available.. and I'm saving money to get me a proper 'gaming-rig' so i can actually play lfs the way it's supposed to be..
Sponge, Crossover would have borked up because of X11 being changed/updated. If you wait and watch the Crossover site, there should be an update soon enough that will fix it.
I always assumed that it was alpha because it didn't have all the desired features implemented. Since there's countless things that can still be added I figured alpha would stick around for years, then we'd be in beta for all of two weeks since you fix bugs as you go.
Alpha - not all features implemented
Beta - not all bugs fixed
And there is goes, First we though that it will have only 3 stages etc etc. Now were gonna pay up for more. I hope that those stages will contain good stuff..
if so, financing model would gonna change - 'cos the game will be more and more expensive for newbies and all the old users will agree with that situation but it is future
It takes a lot of time.... i worked for a german company for a few weeks where we scanned a bridge for static purpose. only this bridge took about 1 day to scan and the engineer i asked meant that it takes much hours to create a 3d model only of a bridge
so figure out how long it takes for a whole race track, additional texturing and all lfs related thingys.
i think it took several months, because the devs are only three and they cant use only the scanned model, it would have too much details... so the had to make it good for the game so that it runs smooth in game at a high detail grade