You somehow imagine these guys didn't learn anything from Cliffs of Dover, they weren't going to spend another 6-7 years making a flight sim.
Loft was not involved with Cliffs of Dover development. But you may be right in that Loft would have needed 6-7 years to develop something with the Cliffs of Dover engine. Of course, Team Fusion, on a part time basis without access to the source code, has done wonders with it in much less time. Can you imagine what Team Fusion could do with it if they had access to the source code like Loft does.
Right now I'm more interested in the Team Fusion Cliffs of Dover project than anything Loft is working on. If PWCG for BoS materializes, then great. But knowing that Loft has no interest in the form of combat flight simulators known to earthlings, I have zero hope that Loft's future efforts will produce anything more interesting than he's already produced. The guy builds cool planes and maps (as we've already seen in RoF and BoS), but he can't build a cool game to use them in (as we've already seen in RoF and BoS). He really should be a unit manager, not a project leader.
