New Patch (v.3.06) For Dominions 3: The Awakening!

[MaxWilson]

I know you're kidding, but there would be a nontrivial time investment in bringing the new person up to speed on the code. Small projects don't scale well just by adding people--it can even hurt productivity. It might be better to Wish to buy out the school Johan works at and pay him ten times as much money to work on Dominions. In fact, if you can convince everyone you know to convince everyone they know to buy a copy of Dominions 3, we might be able to do that. That's what, 2.5 million copies? (Most people know about 5000 people, but there's a fair bit of overlap.)



-Max

[Gandalf Parker]

I get the impression from people who have seen the code that letting people into Johans code is above averagely a problem. Its taken us years to get him to answer in more than a sentence so I doubt the code has document remarks. And even if it did its probably swedish. And the variables also.

This game is a project of love and has grown over the years. Ive had to evaluate many of those. Projects like that dont tend to open up to others very well.

[Edi]

I've seen some partial snippets of the code (units, sites, weapons, armor), and even for those fairly straightforward portions it requires pretty extensive explanations and examples before it's (relatively) easy to read.

I have no idea of what the rest of it looks like, but I am inclined to agree with Gandalf's assessment.

[Ewierl]

I see on the Progress page that 3.07 has been completed! I've been looking forwards to a lot of the changes in this version, any word on when it'll be available for download?

[Dedas]

I don't think they release any patches with an odd number.

You have to wait for 3.08.

[Gandalf Parker]

From mention on the progress page it goes to beta-testing. Each new feature has to be tested under Windows, and Mac, and Linux at least before it can be released.

[Dedas]

How long is the beta-testing?

[Kristoffer O]

Odd numbers are replaced by an even number if the beta group finds anything that must be fixed before release. There seem to be a few things that should be fixed, so a 3.08 is likely, but not too far away. A couple of days or a week. I'll be gone for the weekend, so I'm not sure what JK decides while I'm gone.

Anyway, nex patch after this one will not take as long as this one. Fomoria is almost done, but was not included in the 3.07 patch. Thus the next patch is already on the horizon so to speak.

[llamabeast]

Cool! I'm really excited about the new patch, really looking forward to it.