Wow Nem, I missed your quitting post for this long!?
I thought you'd just disappeared!
Either way, one thing I've noticed lately is that they've really made a lot of improvements to C2.
At the start I found it downright unbearable and confusing, it was hard enough just flying around and most stuff looked hideous. But with the recent patches things are starting to look a lot nicer. The UI still needs work, especially the radar, but that's quite obviously just a placeholder and for me I find it a lot less of a headache to work my way around the UI now what with it being a lot less buggy and an overall pain in the ass. I can even run SS at the highest settings now without it turning my laptop into an oven!
It still isn't at what I'd say is an acceptable level in comparison to the old C1 but you can't deny that they're making progress and I reckon that in the end C2 will far outshine C1, they've just got a lot of fine-tuning left to go.
The one major disappointment I still have so far is the lack of admin-player interaction, there aren't enough official update posts happening. I can skim the forums once every few weeks and feel like no progress is being made, even if there is, you just don't see it on the surface.
That, in my opinion is a major oversight. Having such a disparity makes the game feel depressing. It's like a player coming along and thinking "When's the next update? They haven't said anything in weeks, it must be vaporware now! Do they even care about the game?" I'm sure that gets the point across.
Honestly, if I didn't have Jey talking about how he's fixing bugs on his beta client I would think you guys were dead.
P.S. I know Jeff's making a ton of posts but unless you're Churchill or trawl through his post list you're going to miss most of them, I'm talking about stuff in the more noticable forums like the first category.
EDIT: Here's an example