Gabriel Reiser Posted April 2, 2015 at 09:28 PM Posted April 2, 2015 at 09:28 PM Software engineer and SimConnect junkie here to [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ist in speeding this thing up... PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McDonald Woods Posted April 3, 2015 at 09:32 AM Posted April 3, 2015 at 09:32 AM Hi Gabriel, Surprised to hear someone calling himself a SimConnect junkie. I have been intrigued by the possibilities of exploiting the Missions facilities being developed by LM for P3D. Any thoughts? Kind regards, Richard McDonald Woods Winchester, UK Cheers, Richard You are the music, until the music stops. T.S.Eliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Anderson 838784 Posted April 4, 2015 at 12:43 AM Posted April 4, 2015 at 12:43 AM I mean it is just so frustrating as a consumer and one with experience of how these things are handled outside this FS world to see the captive audiences developers build only to kill em off slowly. There are some projects that I remember wanting very badly, as in on my mind weekly, that has still yet to be released. I took a good 5 years off and same issues. Either keep the development a secret or keep the public involved with some form of effective PR. The fact that it is now taboo to ask about release dates in this community is crazy relative to the overall PC gaming scene. "Vaporware." Yet as an avid consumer you are belittled for saying that here. Every other PC community is the other way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Robinson Posted April 4, 2015 at 02:43 AM Posted April 4, 2015 at 02:43 AM I mean it is just so frustrating as a consumer and one with experience of how these things are handled outside this FS world to see the captive audiences developers build only to kill em off slowly. There are some projects that I remember wanting very badly, as in on my mind weekly, that has still yet to be released. I took a good 5 years off and same issues. Either keep the development a secret or keep the public involved with some form of effective PR. The fact that it is now taboo to ask about release dates in this community is crazy relative to the overall PC gaming scene. "Vaporware." Yet as an avid consumer you are belittled for saying that here. Every other PC community is the other way around. Not to mention that there may be other projects being placed on hold because people are looking forward to coordinating implementation of multiple projects. Just sayin' __________ Ira Robinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rossgotterer 104726 Posted April 5, 2015 at 07:52 AM Posted April 5, 2015 at 07:52 AM Gents, as Mat said, we are still activly developing and doing constant and good progress. We are currently in the stage of iterating existing code and get it less komplex and more stable. This is unfortunately a very time consuming task. I mean it is just so frustrating as a consumer and one with experience of how these things are handled outside this FS world to see the captive audiences developers build only to kill em off slowly. There are some projects that I remember wanting very badly, as in on my mind weekly, that has still yet to be released. I took a good 5 years off and same issues. Either keep the development a secret or keep the public involved with some form of effective PR. The fact that it is now taboo to ask about release dates in this community is crazy relative to the overall PC gaming scene. "Vaporware." Yet as an avid consumer you are belittled for saying that here. Every other PC community is the other way around. Don't forget we are doing this in our spare time and the scope of the project is big. This is different to a commcerial company having a clear roadmap and concrete experience in all fields. So they usually have a timeline they can follow and the estimations of the release are very reliable. In contrast we are doing such a client the first time. None of us had a lot experience with how to write a VATSIM pilot client before. If we would start from scratch and use the experience we gained over the last 2 years, things would be different of course. So bottom line, you of course are allowed to ask for a release date. But even if we would give you one, this does not help you at all. Because when we reach this date and the client is not finished it won't be released and we keep postponing the release date. This is worse then not giving any date at all. We would love to estimate when we are finished, but even our private estimations were unrealistic. swift - Technical Manager http://swift-project.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted April 5, 2015 at 11:07 AM Posted April 5, 2015 at 11:07 AM Hi Roland, thanks a lot for your statement! What everyone should understand and appreciate is, that in contrast to commercial projects, where publishers try to keep their project in that talk and want to tease their potential customers, our SWIFT-team simply has no idea how much work (time-wise) they have left to do. This is kind of frustrating for both them and for us, as we are all keen to finally get our hands on the software. Even if we are tired of waiting, we need to realize one thing: this project is being developed in the leisure time of some brave individuals who have accepted to sacrifice their time FOR US ALL! If they decided to post more regular updates they would waste crucial time that they should rather spend on the code itself. So again: THANKS FOR KEEPING THE PROJECT ALIVE! Everyone appreciates your efforts and luckily you do understand that a lot of people are impatient, because they are REALLY looking forward to using SWIFT. I'd rather see their impatience as something positive: they are interested in the project and its status. Keep going! Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Mckenna 1301977 Posted April 20, 2015 at 07:09 PM Posted April 20, 2015 at 07:09 PM I can't until swift is released. Keep on doing what you are doing and no rush . Kind Regards, Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Alvarez 818262 Posted June 19, 2015 at 07:14 PM Posted June 19, 2015 at 07:14 PM team posted an unnoticed update 2 days ago addressing the concerns people have as far as is it still in development or not http://swift-project.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted June 19, 2015 at 07:49 PM Posted June 19, 2015 at 07:49 PM ...and make sure you watch the movie clip that they have created. It will show you that work never has really ceased and how much has been done by whom over the past 2 years! Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence McDonald Posted October 6, 2015 at 09:54 AM Posted October 6, 2015 at 09:54 AM HI there . How about a status update , its been 4 months .. Really hoped you were finished by now This is the only hope , cross platform VATSIM client Regards Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted October 6, 2015 at 10:53 AM Posted October 6, 2015 at 10:53 AM Hi Lawrence, I am not part of the team that is building Swift, but from what I read on our forum at vACC Germany I can confirm that the team is well active. Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rossgotterer 104726 Posted October 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM Posted October 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM 4 month is a very short time if you work on swift and see how fast the time p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]es by Just kidding... a new blog post with a bit more insight into our current development is planned. I cannot say a date when it will be public. Same as usual for the release date. swift - Technical Manager http://swift-project.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence McDonald Posted January 28, 2016 at 08:41 PM Posted January 28, 2016 at 08:41 PM Ok Its a New year , and we are all exited Again ! about swift .. How about a status update . Please Regards Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Amatore 1281869 Posted January 28, 2016 at 09:12 PM Posted January 28, 2016 at 09:12 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McDonald Woods Posted February 5, 2016 at 10:42 AM Posted February 5, 2016 at 10:42 AM I understand that developing a new ATC client is inevitably a long and complex process. So I am NOT going to ask for a progress report. However, could we be given a statement of what real-world functions are now committed in swift? Cheers, Richard You are the music, until the music stops. T.S.Eliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wim Sjoholm 1133704 Posted February 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM Posted February 5, 2016 at 12:31 PM This is not an ATC client, it's a pilot client Somehow rated s3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence McDonald Posted March 27, 2016 at 08:00 PM Posted March 27, 2016 at 08:00 PM Seems its Dead .. What a shame had lots of potential . ohh well regards Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Black Posted March 27, 2016 at 08:22 PM Posted March 27, 2016 at 08:22 PM Vaporware, but... Rest [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ured someone will insist we're being a bunch greedy inpatient bastards and the client is still being worked on... 3 years later. Respectfully, Chad Black Click here to see my 12 years worth of Flight Sim Screenshots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Sutcliffe Posted March 28, 2016 at 04:02 PM Posted March 28, 2016 at 04:02 PM Respectfully, Not dead. And no-one is more impatient than we are to get it done, or more aware that it has been three years. Three years of fairly solid work, and if you think we are going to let three years of our lives go to waste, you are happily mistaken. But status reports don't actually help to get it done any faster. swift - Developer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camden Bruno Posted March 28, 2016 at 07:27 PM Posted March 28, 2016 at 07:27 PM Respectfully, But status reports don't actually help to get it done any faster. While status reports don't necessarily get the project done any faster, they do keep the supporters updated and spread the word regarding the program itself. As a personal suggestion, you may want to simply post a quick blurb every once in a while to forum posts such as this one, to [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ure supporters and users that the project has not died off. Again, just a suggestion to prevent posts that state the project is dead. Thanks, Cam B. VATSIM Supervisor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Glottmann Posted March 28, 2016 at 08:34 PM Posted March 28, 2016 at 08:34 PM While status reports don't necessarily get the project done any faster, they do keep the supporters updated and spread the word regarding the program itself. As a personal suggestion, you may want to simply post a quick blurb every once in a while to forum posts such as this one, to [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ure supporters and users that the project has not died off. Again, just a suggestion to prevent posts that state the project is dead. I agree with Cam here. I'm sure most of us believe that this project is still going on and understand completely that you (the developers) are continuing to put in many hours to work on it. A little information every once in a while is kind of a tease (in a good way). It makes people anticipate it more, and ultimately want to use it more in the long run. I frankly would even be fine with raw changelogs :mrgreen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Richters Posted March 29, 2016 at 06:40 AM Posted March 29, 2016 at 06:40 AM I would also like to agree to the above. Without regular updates you are keeping the ultimate users at arms length and not bring us along with your journey! Joel Richters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Ramsey 810181 Posted March 29, 2016 at 12:34 PM Posted March 29, 2016 at 12:34 PM Stop demanding they give you an update. They do not owe you one. If you want to participate in the journey, learn to code and join the team. Writing and testing code moves the project forward, spending time telling you about coding and testing does not. Kyle Ramsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camden Bruno Posted March 29, 2016 at 01:43 PM Posted March 29, 2016 at 01:43 PM Stop demanding they give you an update. Hi Kyle, Just to be clear, there were no demands made for an update. There were no demands at all, actually. All I did was give a personal suggestion, to prevent eager supporters from posting here requesting updates, stating that the development is dead, etc. I emphasized the fact that it was a suggestion and I believe everyone agreed that it was simple advice, not a demand by any means. Thanks, Cam B. VATSIM Supervisor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Trzcinski Posted March 29, 2016 at 02:36 PM Posted March 29, 2016 at 02:36 PM Well, even Duke Nukem was released eventually. VATSIM Germany www.ftw-sim.de | Fly-The-World economic simulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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