Progress of EB2

[Rang3r]

On what stage are u boys? :)
What term of the reliese is most likely?

[Sir Edward]

bets on "when it's ready"

[Megas Methuselah]

The EB Team gets pissed whenever ppl ask these questions. If you'll do a quick search, ou'll find the most popular answer is, "it will be released when it's ready." Now, I hear footsteps. I think it's Foot.

*runs away*

[Leviathan DarklyCute]

date for v1.0 is 3/5/2010

[Hax]

LDC, we do not like it when you say stuff like that.

The EB Release Date is on 31th of February 2008.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

It will be done when it's done. It will not be done very soon.

[Gatalos de Sauromatae]

Could wait even after 2010. :P
Now just take control Baktria in 1.2
Hope the gray death will die soon or I just gonna die instead. - -"

[Subotan]

God, you guys are worse than the Duke Nukem Forever team...

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

If we had an answer to give we would probably give it. Nobody, anywhere, knows when EBII will be out, not even the team.

[Gleemonex]

God, you guys are worse than the Duke Nukem Forever team...

Duke Nukem Forever 1.2 was released last month? How come nobody told me?!?!

-Glee

[bovi]

If we had an answer to give we would probably give it.

Um, no. We prefer to have the slack for problems arising in the release process. Even when 1.2 was a day or two away (I was working on the installer at the time), we didn't say anything but "sooner rather than later" to queries.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Indeed, even when everything was almost completed nobody knew what the release date was for sure. We don't have a definate answer to this question until a couple of hours before the release.

[fatsweets]

So from all the replies from the team I would surmise that it is at least 6 months from now and probably more like a year? So stop asking the question, they will never tell you, just be patient, it will be well worth the wait.

[abou]

So from all the replies from the team I would surmise that it is at least 6 months from now and probably more like a year? So stop asking the question, they will never tell you, just be patient, it will be well worth the wait.

Yeah, pretty much. We understand people are anxious about it. Many of the fans may be more desirous than the team to see the final product, but until we start getting paid and can quit our jobs or school, things can only go so fast.

So there you have it, fans. The EB Team needs money and women and food. Order doesn't matter just as long as we get all three.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Yeah, pretty much. We understand people are anxious about it. Many of the fans may be more desirous than the team to see the final product, but until we start getting paid and can quit our jobs or school, things can only go so fast.

So there you have it, fans. The EB Team needs money and women and food. Order doesn't matter just as long as we get all three.

If we pool our resources together we can give you guys 1 and 3. 2 would be illegal, but then again, I am sure the EB team gets plenty of women, they are just too busy with making the game.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Why do people ask questions like these? They are irrelevant. EB II can be released in three months, but it will be a helluva incomplete mod. It can also be released in three years and it will be better than all of the TW games put together. It is not a question of completion. EB II will probably not be fully complete even in six years from now. The first public version of EB II is probably going to be missing huge amount of stuff. More so than in EB I v 0.81. In EB I, the EB team already had half of the work done by CA, whereas in M2TW, almost all of it will start from scratch.

The more time is spent on EB II, the less patches and versions of it are going to be subsequently released. The EB team could have waited much more time to release EB I, releasing it as v 1.0 and not 0.81. I would not ask for any kind of dates, as they only have a detrimental effect.

To pressure EB II team to release a highly incomplete EB II would simply tarnish the Europa Barbarorum’s reputation as being the most complete RTW mod (and the best!). Not to mention, the less time EB team members spend answering silly questions and moderating forums, the more time they will have on EB II

[a completely inoffensive name]

Why do people whine about questions like these? It's as if they want the EB2 forum to be completely inactive until it is released, because any speculation is just completely stupid and a waste of the 2 years of free time we have until it comes out.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Why do people whine about questions like these? It's as if they want the EB2 forum to be completely inactive until it is released, because any speculation is just completely stupid and a waste of the 2 years of free time we have until it comes out.

Speculation and giving ideas is different from nagging the EB team to go faster, which is what this thread doing in reality.

[Megas Methuselah]

2 would be illegal

So? As if that matters...

Why do people ask questions like these? They are irrelevant. EB II can be released in three months, but it will be a helluva incomplete mod. It can also be released in three years and it will be better than all of the TW games put together. It is not a question of completion. EB II will probably not be fully complete even in six years from now. The first public version of EB II is probably going to be missing huge amount of stuff. More so than in EB I v 0.81. In EB I, the EB team already had half of the work done by CA, whereas in M2TW, almost all of it will start from scratch.

The more time is spent on EB II, the less patches and versions of it are going to be subsequently released. The EB team could have waited much more time to release EB I, releasing it as v 1.0 and not 0.81. I would not ask for any kind of dates, as they only have a detrimental effect.

To pressure EB II team to release a highly incomplete EB II would simply tarnish the Europa Barbarorum’s reputation as being the most complete RTW mod (and the best!). Not to mention, the less time EB team members spend answering silly questions and moderating forums, the more time they will have on EB II

You're completely overreacting.

[Septimius]

All this sounds like an excerpt from the movie "The Agony and the Ecstacy" from 1965.

Pope Leo keeps on badgering Michelangelo over the Sixtine Chapel: "When will you make an end of it?!"

Michelangelo (aka Charlton Heston) yells "When I'm finished!"

Half the movie is built on that theme

[General Appo]

Why do people ask questions like these?

Maybe because they are new to the forum and like 95% of all newcomers to any forum anywhere on the internet have not bothered reading the FAQ. That´s my guess anyway.
Go easy big guy.

[Space_Ed]

So on what date will EB2 be released?

[Cute Wolf]

Best leave it as a happy surprise, or the EB II team will grows angry ... they have another jobs to be done too...

[Majd il-Romani]

alright then enough about a release date, but how far along are you guys? Like what are you working on now?

[Hax]

EB II.

[Majd il-Romani]

EB II.

NO WAY!!!!!!

but seriously, I dont see whats wrong telling us how far you guys are

[Ludens]

but seriously, I dont see whats wrong telling us how far you guys are

Two reasons:
1) In the past even a hint of how look it would take until realize was often interpreted as a promise by overenthusiastic fans, and this led to complaints when the "promised" date was not met.
2) The team doesn't know how long it will take or how far they are. They are probably still busy concepting units, factions and features. You can't calculate how far you are if you don't know what the endpoint is. Also, EB is a big, complex project, which means that things go wrong and thus delay release. Finally, it is a volunteer project, so it's hard to say how much hours will be put in next week, let alone next month.

[||Lz3||]

let alone next... 4 years... (what it took EB1 to be what it is)

[chenkai11]

yeah, please make it 4 years, I still don't know when I can afford a new PC.

[a completely inoffensive name]

let alone next... 4 years... (what it took EB1 to be what it is)

Well, I doubt anyone is going to be waiting until it is fully patched to EB1 standard. I think it will take 2 years like EB1 to officially come out with the first version. I am personally predicting December 2010 as the release date.

EDIT: And December 21, 2012 as the release date for the last patch...