When the patch will be released ?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by PhilD:
Originally posted by Dekent:
GUI is easier?

No way. With a decent shell, the command line is leagues ahead. And I'm not even an expert in using shells; I just use basic history search, and never have to type in a complex command more than once, even if I need to change some of the arguments.

Depends on what you mean by easier. If you mean easier to get it to do what YOU want then maybe. Command line is almost always more powerful, with more options. Especially for chaining programs together or scripting things.

Id have to say that GUI are easier but also limiting. They can be easier for doing whatever the programmer has decided to let you do.

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[ December 14, 2003, 14:00: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Pocus:
if GUI were not easier, people would still use dos based apps for data-managing commercial products, which is clearly not the case.

If I have comboboxes wich show me say the units of Marignon, or the list of all pretenders, and that I have just to click on the line I want to choose a name, then I think we can assume thats its easier and less error prone that do have to manually type that I want a Daughter of River as a pretender, for example.
GUI ask for room on your screen, thats true.

Let's not get started too far down this road...

A GUI is often easier when you're using an application. The command line, by definition, describes the launching of the application.

Some tasks are much simplified when you have an easy time accessing the information you want to organize (which I said in my post, under the generic term of "browsing"). But when it comes to issuing the right commands, with the right arguments, repeatedly, it's much easier to use a good shell (the old default DOS shell is NOT a good one).

What triggered my initial reply to Dekent was the affirmation that "GUI is (almost) easier".
I don't agree with this, in (almost) any possible sense of the word "almost"

[Dekent]

Everyone has different definations of the word 'easier' it seems....

I meant easier as in 'turning my brain off after a long day' easier

And back on topic...any word on the patch? Should it be out before xmas? After? Next year?

IW has said they have the patch done (or mostly) and it's sent to Shrapnel. Which we assume is to be customized to each OS. I think the nearest accessment is "soon"

Good news is that Dom2 was released 1 day prior to it scheduled release; so they don't take the customary '3 weeks after they promise' which is the norm of other gaming companies.

[Johan K]

Our Solaris man has been sick for a little while which has delayed the patch a few days. But we still expect it to be released before christmas.

[Jasper]

I understand there's some benefit to moving all the platforms at the same time, but waiting for Solaris seems a bit... well, I'm guessing you can count the number of Solaris copies sold on your fingers.

Then again, for all I know this is the only game you can actually buy for Solaris.

-Jasper

[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by Johan K:
Our Solaris man has been sick for a little while which has delayed the patch a few days. But we still expect it to be released before christmas.

Great news - I'm looking forward to seeing what you have done.

Cheers

Keir