Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
OK, now I'm currently looking through the stuff on www.bf-news.de. Here the changes to the aformentioned dates:
They have an interview with Michael Siebert (there's also an english version) here. We receive info here that he joined around february. A year is not given, but other info in the interview suggests it was 2003. At that time Interstate had no public release yet, so I don't know how accurate that guess is. The interview also tells about the organisation (pretty much none) and some interesting stuff for Interstate that did not get released yet... The mods future is secure... Ah, the good ole days, when everybody still believed this. An analysis why this did not work out would surely be interesting.
2004-01-19 Interstate 2004 officially announced.
2004-02-01 Patch 1.62 fixes problems with Battlefield 1.6
Release of 1.8 was first planned for 2004-07-17, but later delayed.
According to that site, 1.8 was released 2004-07-20 around 19:00. Since the post that it was released was an update without a date, this could be incorrect.
2005-02-25 They give a short update about IS82x, which happens to be the first mention of IS82x on their site. I wonder whatever happened to that mod, I mean I heard stories, but nothing official.
Another thing of interest: Among the first screen shots of Interstate 2004 were many I had seen previously on the forums, without thinking they were meant for Interstate 2004, like the Apache and a 747. What ever happened to the golf cart and the JetRanger? They were planned for 1.7 (which then became 1.8), and I think there was more like that.