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December 24th, 2003, 07:06 PM
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Re: Patch before Christmas?
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That and the fact that Illwinter had major downtime. 3 different events. Problems with 2 seperate machines AND their ISP.
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December 24th, 2003, 09:22 PM
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Re: Patch before Christmas?
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That and the fact that Illwinter had major downtime. 3 different events. Problems with 2 seperate machines AND their ISP.
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December 28th, 2003, 01:30 PM
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Re: Patch before Christmas?
No news of the patch? 
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December 28th, 2003, 04:05 PM
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Re: Patch before Christmas?
Since they mentioned having computer and connection problems I havent even seen them on this board.
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December 29th, 2003, 03:12 PM
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Re: Patch before Christmas?
Please excuse my ignorance, but what system is Solaris? I am sure Dominions is a big hit with Solaris Users, as it may be the only game in the world which runs on the system!
More seriously, I wonder what percentage of Dominions players use Solaris and if the patch is being held up so that it can be applicable to all systems? At the risk of offending those on the Solaris system, I would put forth the Window-centric argument that the majority of the paying customers should not have to wait for updates, if the delay is caused by the other systems. Could individual patches be put out for each operating system? Not only would this allow each segment of the population to get their patch as soon as it was done, but it would also reduce the size of the download for those of us with poor connections. Also, if Windows is the problem, the other systems do not have to wait for us!
In any case, I am not a programmer and it is Christmas, so the Illwinter folks may just be on a well deserved vacation. I just thought I would throw in my thoughts
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December 29th, 2003, 05:11 PM
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Re: Patch before Christmas?
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Please excuse my ignorance, but what system is Solaris? I am sure Dominions is a big hit with Solaris Users, as it may be the only game in the world which runs on the system!
More seriously, I wonder what percentage of Dominions players use Solaris and if the patch is being held up so that it can be applicable to all systems? At the risk of offending those on the Solaris system, I would put forth the Window-centric argument that the majority of the paying customers should not have to wait for updates, if the delay is caused by the other systems. Could individual patches be put out for each operating system? Not only would this allow each segment of the population to get their patch as soon as it was done, but it would also reduce the size of the download for those of us with poor connections. Also, if Windows is the problem, the other systems do not have to wait for us!
In any case, I am not a programmer and it is Christmas, so the Illwinter folks may just be on a well deserved vacation. I just thought I would throw in my thoughts
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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...
If one person in a thousand is using Solaris, but that person is playing MP, all their opponents will suffer if an incomplete patch is released.
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December 29th, 2003, 07:35 PM
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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...
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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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