I started working on the XWA WCTC as soon as it started, about 3 or 4 years, ago, I think. Back then it was mostly just me and Nob working on it. Then other people joined, and I left, because it was all of a sudden becoming too damn ambitious.
That was over 2 years ago, which is about as long as I've been working on Standoff, although it only got out of the concept stage and into the development stage about fifteen months ago.
Standoff hasn't got anything to do with the XWA WCTC (even though my initial concept borrowed a bit from it), and I haven't, either, for over two years.
I've heard about the project being abandoned and all their OPTs being released as a shipset-style thing, but never bothered to reinstall XWA and check it out myself... I think there's still a few of my really old models in there though.
--Eder