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Hi, I was just wondering, is there like a date for the new official patch?

No. There is work being done, like what Kristoffer has done for the new nations and some of the new graphics, tomb wyrms being fixed and other stuff that has been quietly greenified in the shortlist, but there is still a lot to do, much of it things that only JK can do since he is the one who codes the game. And those things ain't happening before he comes back from India.

The next patch will also see most in-game typos fixed, leaving only very occasional things in there. The next patch can probably be expected in late August or early September, but that is nothing more than an educated guess. Kristoffer can probably a give a better estimate if he is inclined to do so.

Primarily JK must return from India. That is late July. Then there will probably be some fixings of his. And there are two other semi-external projects (Edis great typo fixing and another project) to include, but those are supposed to be more or less finished when JK returns, so my estimate is early/mid August.

The patch will be rather content heavy. Less fixes to game mechanics, since JK's been away for a while. There will also be a number of lesser bugfixes and balance chages. Edi's shortlist is greenified to give some clues. And sporadically I have written fixes and stuff in the progress page (although I'm not very good at keeping it up to date.).

Currently I'm visiting my folks, so I'm not working on dom3, but otherwise I've been rather productive this summer. I imagine I will be less so when JK returns, and there are more stuff you can do, like playing games http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I have some new ideas that I will work on, but I imagine these will wait for the next patch. My current MP game, ther first in ages, has put me in a position where I'm confronted with imbalancies, weaknesses (thematical or mechanical) and other stuff I want to change.

I'm playing MA Mictlan and I got new ideas for them, but it would not sit well with me to make changes to them in this patch, since it would give me advantages in that game.

Anyway, I think a nation will generally benefit from me playing it. So if there are other nations percieved as unfun, weak, or graphically unpleasant let me know for my next MP signup.

Early or mid-August already?! http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/Image...s/icon_eek.gif http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/Image...s/icon_eek.gif

I really need to get cracking on the typos...

Early is probably a bit optimistic, but mid I hope.

I'll do my best. The nation descriptions are going to take comparatively more time than the units and items since I need to check some content issues, but thankfully it's a short file, so I should get it done fairly quickly.

The unit thing is mostly a find & replace job and then looking over the new ones. Further fixing will also be fairly easy from now on since it'll just be a matter of locating single typos and fixing them.

I'm going to Italy on August 10th and coming back on the 17th, with the weekend of 18th/19th fully booked, so I need to get things done before that. If I can't quite manage to finish it, I'll do what I can and leave the rest for the patch after the next one.

The lack of itemized battlefield reporting kills me in the face sometimes.

Jazzepi

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Jazzepi said:
The lack of itemized battlefield reporting kills me in the face sometimes.

Jazzepi

I think that will continue to be killing you in the face for the forseeable future.

Don't have playing in a an MP game slow you down on MA Mictlan (they could definitely use some help in the fun category), just request that game not update to the new patch. Actually wasn't bad for last patch, just make a copy of the old .exe and shortcut the new game to it.

Otherwise, sounds great!