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Originally posted by UNIVAC:

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It's not that simple: it's likely that MP games where even one single person is unable to get the patch, will have problems. And if someone is in several MP games, they might have to keep an unpatched game and several patched ones...

Thats a very poor argument.Ok, if that situation may happen, the Users of that MP game should not patch his DomII to avoid problems.But there are a LOT of players that only play solo games, or play with Users that dont use Solaris or...what the heck, maybe people that does not play at all but want the modding tools to work with them for the others

IMHO that is a weak argument, not enough to stop releasing the patch for the systems that are ready.Thats how it works with other games (for example, the ones with different language Versions).

Anyway i hope we are waiting for technical problems of Illwinter being resolved, not for the Solaris patch.

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I think you'd find an unproportional large number of non-windows Dominions players .

But still, I think the main reason is more likely to be the technical problems of Illwinter, as supposingly, patch for all but one OS is fixed. There is no reason not to just release the patches for all but one.

As for why Solaris is included in the supported platform, I think the reason is because it's easy enough to do. I beleive the program uses OpenGL for graphic, a library available on all Unices (I know of) - and Windows. If you can support Linux or MacOS X, I guess Solaris is probably one or two compiles away. It's easy enough to do just for a matter of principle, or bragging-right - how many game can claim to run on four major OS platforms !