Re: Newbie pulling hair out
 

Oh? Pardon my ignorance. I was under the impression that Gold was just Classic repackaged with a bunch of mods and a new manual. But I am new to the whole series with Gold.

It can help to avoid confusion like this by bumping the major revision number when making a non-upwards compatible change in the software.

The progression from IV to V does not introduce the ambiguity that arises when going from "Classic" to "Gold". And no one would expect SEIV files to work unmodified on SEV.

Re: Newbie pulling hair out
 

"It can help to avoid confusion like this by bumping the major revision number when making a non-upwards compatible change in the software."

They did..1.49 is the Last classic patch, and Gold as installed is 1.60.

Phoenix-D

Re: Newbie pulling hair out
 

Well, I agree they bumped some number. Whether it was the major revision number or the minor revision number really depends a lot on the software developer. To me, 1.60 looks like it should be a minor, upwards-compatible patch on 1.49, just as 1.78 is a minor, upwards-compatible patch on 1.60. I might have thought otherwise if Gold came out as, say, 2.08.

Either way, in my short time on this board, I have observed that some customers have expectations that mods developed for 1.49 should work on 1.60. Apparently, they often do not. That situation can be solved in at least two ways:

1) Improve the upwards compatibility between major releases.

2) Adjust customer expectations by clearly distinguishing the products.

I still think that (1) would not be all that hard, and some effort here would potentially increase customer happiness some small percentage. (Not as much as Urban Pacification.)

Re: Newbie pulling hair out
 

Backward compatability is especially tough if you add new features, which MM does a lot of sometimes. The original AI files from say, Version 1.00 lack a lot of lines that 1.49 has (well, a few I think).

Re: Newbie pulling hair out
 

Converting from Classic to Gold isn't all that difficult...there are only a few additional lines in the data files - which are documented on this forum somewhere.

Re: Newbie pulling hair out
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's the link Rollo posted below, the same thread as the one in my sig.