Well, the silence is a little disconcerting. I can undertsand that the coding doesn't give us much to look at for updates, but surely some new models are still underway, or the texturing of the models for the R1 release? What about news on the whole launching/landing issue?
Happy Christmas, everyone. 
Actually, you assume some things wrong, so I'll try to set the record straight. See, once we release pretty pictures of a ship, that ship usually isn't done by a long shot. Sure it looks nice on the shots but there's usually a ton of work to be done on it to get it ready for the game. I'll give an example - the Prometheus was only recently exported to it's final version. Yea, the model and texture have been done for ages, but porting it with proper collisions, all LODs, debris, destroyable subsystems? That was all done in a final version of the ship very recently. Is it good progress? Damn straight. Is it something new we can show pictures of? Not really, even if it did get us closer to being ready for release. And that sort of thing has to be done for every ship, station and object before we release. Now, for R1, art-wise, we're missing a few things but most of the stuff simply just needs to be finalized in this manner, and that is something we're working on right now. Like I said, it doesn't produce pretty pictures but at some point, you need to hold off on making new stuff and make sure the old stuff is finalized and ready for the final game if you ever mean to release. So, have faith and patience, because we're really trying to get you the best game we can make.
Also, merry Christmas everyone!
