Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I really need patch 2 so I can start my game.  I'm done with the turn but keep tweaking it waiting for the patch.

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson
The release of patch02 is at least 2 weeks out, allowing for one week of perculation of the public beta.

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I really need patch 2 so I can start my game.  I'm done with the turn but keep tweaking it waiting for the patch.

Keep in mind, that what we will hopefully be releasing this comming week will NOT be patch02, it will be the patch02 public beta. Some people think these are the same things but they are not. The release of patch02 is at least 2 weeks out, allowing for one week of perculation for the public beta. But there is a 99.999% chance that patch02 will contain differences from the public beta - hopefully good differences!

Created by the amazing Dixie

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Adjustments to artillery and supplies have been made.

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ORIGINAL: fbs

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson
The release of patch02 is at least 2 weeks out, allowing for one week of perculation of the public beta.

Hey, I don't do no perculation of the public beta. I'm a good man. That's the kind of thing best left within 4 walls -- someone will end up in jail if he does perculations in public all the time.

Note to self: don't let my daughter near a programmer, these public perculators.

Cheers
fbs

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ORIGINAL: invernomuto

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ORIGINAL: dpazuk
Andy, you DA MAN! I cannot thank you enough for the work and dedication you have put into the AI.

The analogy of taking a lump of coal and turning into a diamond would not be inappropriate.

I also want to thank Andy and all the guys that work on the AI: it's light years ahead the witp one. Well done!!!

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ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

Yeah, that Buff was a hell of a plane.  Swept the skies of .....well, uh, ..... never mind.

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ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

WRONG M10BOB!  I've heard that thousands of sailors got bombed in San Diego in WWII.  Every year since then, too.

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

You like the Buffalo and the B-19

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ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

Yeah, that Buff was a hell of a plane.  Swept the skies of .....well, uh, ..... never mind.

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Update on patch 02 status:

We continue our weekly build process, but this week is a bit of a milestone because I think we are now "critical mass" in terms of the items we have in the build. Testing will probably run for about two more weeks and we will continue to squeeze in whatever we can with an acceptable risk/benefit profile.

At this point, I would say public release by 27 Oct will not happen. I'd say it feels like we are about 2 weeks behind that goal at this point.

So probable schedule at this point looks something like "public beta" by about 3 Nov and patch release by about 10 Nov.

As regards "public beta". Actually I'm still a bit skeptical about whether we should be doing this or not. I see pros and cons.

The cons for me are that I guess I am used to being responsible for testing and so I worry about asking the customer to help with that. So kind of a "philosophical" issue for me.

On the pro side, to really adequately test something like this, equivalent to how I would test this in my day job, would take up to maybe 150 people several months. Or shall we say 1000s of person-hours. And there is no way we have that kind of resource available on our team. Hence the idea that some of you helping will find things we miss.

But back to the cons, some of you may view the "public beta" as if it were the actual patch. I would not do this. I would not patch a serious ongoing game, unless I really believed that the game was broken. But many of you will, probably most. I just would warn about equating your expectations regarding the "bug free ness" of the public beta, as compared to the same standard applied against the official patch, once it is released. The official patch will include additional changes as well as many fixes. So, I would recommend testing the "beta patch" as a testing activity. Create a separate instance of the game and apply the beta patch to that game and test. Keep that sepearate from your serious games.

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ORIGINAL: khyberbill

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Adjustments to artillery and supplies have been made.

Will results like the below be changed then? There were well rested troops, sitting behind lvl 5 forts in rest mode. I have an AMD Turion 64x2 and it still took 8 minutes and 24 seconds for the bombardment phase to play out.

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ORIGINAL: pad152

When someone asks why is the game so expensive, they need to told because of the support like this, months after release, new features are still being added and the game is still fully supported by the developers!

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REST MODE - that was part of your problem.
When the enemy starts lobbing shells you should be in combat mode, sitting in the trenches, not rest mode, lounging around in deck chairs and playing cricket

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ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

WRONG M10BOB!  I've heard that thousands of sailors got bombed in San Diego in WWII.  Every year since then, too.

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

bump, how the progress going??