New patch??

Juzza · #1 July 18th, 2007, 05:03 AM

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

Edi · #2 July 18th, 2007, 07:08 AM

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.

Kristoffer O · #3 July 18th, 2007, 07:08 AM

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

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.

Edi · #4 July 18th, 2007, 07:14 AM

Early or mid-August already?!

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

Kristoffer O · #5 July 18th, 2007, 07:20 AM

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

Edi · #6 July 18th, 2007, 07:43 AM

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.

Kristoffer O · #7 July 18th, 2007, 07:46 AM

Sounds good

lch · #8 July 18th, 2007, 01:16 PM

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Edi said:
I really need to get cracking on the typos...

When you have the typos "fixed", would you open the patch up for peer review before it is applied? Then some other people have a chance to find things which you may have overlooked.

Tyrant · #9 July 18th, 2007, 01:30 PM

I'd nominate EA Ulm and second LA Aby for nations in need of work.

Edi · #10 July 18th, 2007, 01:39 PM

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lch said:

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Edi said:
I really need to get cracking on the typos...

When you have the typos "fixed", would you open the patch up for peer review before it is applied? Then some other people have a chance to find things which you may have overlooked.

The only part of the code I've seen are the description files and you need to ask Kristoffer that. You can take my word for it that I did spend over a month going over a string dump and fixing everything I found and Kristoffer gave me the actual source files to work with because most of the work was already done. I've caught a couple of very minor stylistic things from the nation descriptions which I'm redoing and a couple of other changes I went over with Kristoffer, but other than that it's going to be a straight find and replace.

I cannot give you the source files, but I can give you the strings extracted from the dump and accompanied by the fixed versions so you can look them over yourself. I'll be doublechecking everything as I fix it, so you will have a very hard time finding anything. If you do, let me know, but there are thousands of typo fixes there, from misspellings to grammar to punctuation, so much more than what was reported in the in-game typo thread. Enjoy yourself.

I will warn you that not QUITE everything will be fixed by what I do, since not all of the strings (such as event descriptions, including global enchantment texts or name lists) are in the description files and those will be left up to KO and JK.

Fixed strings attached.