Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

Suggestion: Could the posts announcing new patches include the version number in the title? Can't tell you how many times I see this thread and think I need to go get a new patch...then realize it's still the 3.06 patch being announced as a sticky at the top of the first page.

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

I am in the same boat. Patch number would be very helpful.

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I agree with Baalz.

Jazzepi

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

Ask, and ye shall receive, was the quote I had in mind...

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

Lets have Illwinter temporarily hire one extra individual to fix all the bugs they don't want and/or have time to fix.
We might have to cast "Wish" a few dozen times before this will work, but it will be worth it.

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

I know you're kidding, but there would be a nontrivial time investment in bringing the new person up to speed on the code. Small projects don't scale well just by adding people--it can even hurt productivity. It might be better to Wish to buy out the school Johan works at and pay him ten times as much money to work on Dominions. In fact, if you can convince everyone you know to convince everyone they know to buy a copy of Dominions 3, we might be able to do that. That's what, 2.5 million copies? (Most people know about 5000 people, but there's a fair bit of overlap.)

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-Max

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

I get the impression from people who have seen the code that letting people into Johans code is above averagely a problem. Its taken us years to get him to answer in more than a sentence so I doubt the code has document remarks. And even if it did its probably swedish. And the variables also.

This game is a project of love and has grown over the years. Ive had to evaluate many of those. Projects like that dont tend to open up to others very well.

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

I've seen some partial snippets of the code (units, sites, weapons, armor), and even for those fairly straightforward portions it requires pretty extensive explanations and examples before it's (relatively) easy to read.

I have no idea of what the rest of it looks like, but I am inclined to agree with Gandalf's assessment.

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

I see on the Progress page that 3.07 has been completed! I've been looking forwards to a lot of the changes in this version, any word on when it'll be available for download?

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I don't think they release any patches with an odd number. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

You have to wait for 3.08.

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From mention on the progress page it goes to beta-testing. Each new feature has to be tested under Windows, and Mac, and Linux at least before it can be released.

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

How long is the beta-testing?

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How long?
Its a bunch of VERY dedicated people who use their free time to try out the list of things that have changed, and try to find if they impacted other things also. Its kindof hard to put times on that.

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

I'm sorry, didn't mean to sound impatient or anything. Just curios that's all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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No prob. People dont know so I grabbed the chance to mention it. Im amazed at our bunch of beta testers. They played this game almost daily for a year before anyone else saw it, and yet here it is almost another year and they still jump as soon as its posted that there is a new patch for them to test. I wasnt that dedicated even when I WAS paid to do it.

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Yes, much love to the beta team. You are doing a grand job guys. Thank you! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif

Re: New Patch For Dominions 3: The Awakening!
 

Odd numbers are replaced by an even number if the beta group finds anything that must be fixed before release. There seem to be a few things that should be fixed, so a 3.08 is likely, but not too far away. A couple of days or a week. I'll be gone for the weekend, so I'm not sure what JK decides while I'm gone.

Anyway, nex patch after this one will not take as long as this one. Fomoria is almost done, but was not included in the 3.07 patch. Thus the next patch is already on the horizon so to speak.

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Cool! I'm really excited about the new patch, really looking forward to it.

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Just to whet some more appetites, the DB is also going to get an update after the new patch, to include all the new units, statfixes, corrections of my own mistakes and other stuff. It'll also handle the oldage issues correctly now that the aging mechanics are fully known.