On a more serious note
1 who are mike & lee??
Two developers who work on DarkBasic Professional, DarkGame SDK and FPSC
2how many people are developing dbp?
Mike and Lee, I am not sure if Lee is working on something else at the moment.
3will we ever have shadows that dont kill framerate?
Yes
4will there ever be a level editor with db?
No, you can write your own or use one of the programs TGC sell.
5last..how often is dbp updated??
Quite often when the team aren't doing something like developing FPSC. But as DBP was used to make FPSC lots of new features were released with the latest patch