Erik Rutins
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Joined: 3/28/2000 From: Vermont, USA Status: offline
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v1.8 needs more development time to be completed. We've been working on arranging for that time behind the scenes. Sorry for the wait on this. The primary goal of v1.8 is to fix the bugs in v1.795 and make sure that the most annoying and stubborn bugs - i.e. Disappearing Leaders, Disappearing Land Units are squashed. I'd also like to see ASW sighting toned down, but I'm happy with ASW balance overall. The funny thing is, we've always been open about our updates as soon as we have a fix list. Once we realized development would be slowing down, we opened a limited beta forum to keep folks apprised of beta changes and let them try them before release. Even so, we're considered to not share info and some beta-specific bugs have been brought up on the forum as if they had been around for a year or as if the beta is considered the finished next release. <shakes head> There is certainly incentive for us to withdraw and keep the whole loop closed until the next release, but that's never been our style. Some folks have realized that, others haven't. There's no question we're in a slow development period with respect to WitP, but that too will change. WitP has been through many versions and some recent bugs have not been around since the beginning, but appeared after one version's feature improvements, etc. v1.8 will be released. There's no point to being irresponsible and rumor-mongering that we've abandoned it, which is contrary to everything we've ever posted here. The timing on that release, however, remains to be seen, but I think there will be good news on development time in the near future. Regards, - Erik
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