Sprites? Hurrah! At last I can look at some of my units from a distance!
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Sprites? Hurrah! At last I can look at some of my units from a distance!
There are only a few sprites right now, and sprites take up very little space. 35 MB came from the new custom tiles, 30 MB from the UI directory, and 20 MB from animations. If we added even a single texture or unit fix, it would be an extra 300 MB, since we'd have to re-release the patch pak, or release everything in unpacked form and do without the patch pak (not possible for some things, and making other things slower).
So whats up wheres the patch??
:juggle2:
Like TA said, the team is on American time, so for them it is still Saterday. They never said it would be available Saterday morning. It could just as well be late in the evening. Come to think of it: they never even said it would be on Saterday for definite; it was just an estimate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom
They said it'd be today unless something goes terribly wrong, so I'm expecting a patch.
Really eager for it
Please EB mod team, make good ol John happy.
ahh so some of those grey peasants have been fixed? or the new GUI's? little of both? :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
This applies to unit textures, unit UI cards, building icons, and building constructed images.Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
I'm pretty sure we have finalized the technical content, but there's still a few remaining things like ensuring the accuracy of readmes and installation, plus building the installer and then ensuring it's hosted properly. So please be patient. I can assure everyone, however, that our patch process does NOT work like this:
It's a quiet Saturday afternoon in the towering EB World Headquarters skyscraper. The corridors and offices are largely empty, except for cleaning crews and a few hard core researchers poring through the piled stacks of papyrus scrolls that comprise one small portion of the vast EB scriptorium (scholars have long mourned the loss of the Great Alexandrian library, but no, the contents are all here). With the imminent release of the long anticipated v.73 Patch, Khelvan and most of the EB Team have taken a hard earned vacation. Along with their supermodel wives and girlfriends, the team is currently cruising the Mediterranean aboard the SS EB, the massive ocean liner/yacht that also doubles as a deep sea dive platform - doing some last minute "research" on sunken Qarthadastim galleys.
Meanwhile, deep within the building lies the EB nerve center, and here, surrounded by walls of humming servers, Kull (who drew the short straw) leans back to get a better look at the massive monitor bank providing realtime updates on every EB thread in every forum on the internet. Taking another sip of chilled Perrier, he notes the appearance of a plaintive post on one of the Org sub-forums, and with a click of a button instantly opens a line through to Patch Central. "Hey guys! Based on my count, we've had 5 straight status request posts in the last hour. Any joy from down there?"
It's hard to hear the answer coming through the speakers, what with the sounds of clinking glasses, pumping music, and throaty female laughter, but Kull was pretty sure he heard these words, "Come ON!! You know the patch is ready! Hell it's been ready for a week now, but that's not the point! In strict accordance with EB policy, we aren't allowed to post this thing until we get 20 straight begging posts in a 30 minute time span!"
Hell, I think that we can manage 20 begs in 30 minutes.
That yacht sounds pretty sweet. Does it seperate into a hydrofoil like yer man had in that auld James Bond flick?
Ok, well I live in Texas, and you guys may or may not know that Texas is a state of The United States so that means that I am in America, and my time is about 4:45 PM, wich means there should be a patch ready for download. Oh yeah and when its ready will it be on the main EB website under the desolate, and long barren patches section? And totally of subject ive been playing EB for like an hour and it keeps exiting out to the desktop randomly after like 5 minutes, it doesent CTD, as I just click it at the bottom to reopen it but does anybody else have this problem?
Theres always the left cost, and personly i think we can expect it around 9-10 est so 1-2 GMTQuote:
Originally Posted by Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom
What about the exiting out to my desktop thing....any ideas??? An did they say it was gonna be 30 megabytes?
Khelvan said maybe saturday not that it will be saturday putting words in peoples mouth tends to annoy them so lets hope they don't just keep the patch to themselves due to your insolence :no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom
Note: Do not take this post to seriously :wink3:
Oh and as for your exiting problems are you getting anything popping up an auto update program for example (might try looking at in the system tray)
Not to mention the teams of compressed slaves who are tasked with moving all the palm trees from out of Italy and turning the logs into hobbyhorses so they actually are mounts. This all occupies space in the download.Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
The actual size of the download will probably be around 70 MB, with the compression we use.
Hey, I tend to stay up late, and I consider the day as "until I go to bed," so if it does end up being today, and there is still a good chance it will be, it could very well be well into "tomorrow" for you weird people who use clocks and calendars to determine days.
EB will start using "sleeps" to determine when content is released now? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
Well... i´m wating..... hope it can make it...
Oh why left all the texture out?.. we all get High speed conection.. so... it would be cool to include them.. maybe 2 separate pacthes?... and the one who don´t want to include the texture etc, don´t download them...
Just an idea..
If you want to wait another month for us to put together all the texture/model fixes and such which we wanted to do, we could do that.
The point was to get something out as quickly as possible, and then add a lot of content later. Not everyone has a fast connection, so we'll update a lot of the packed content later, in the next full release.
Will the patch have the modesty patch option in it?
lol im proabably the only person on this forum that has dial up:inquisitive:
Yea:2thumbsup:
No, since the current texture/model is packed, this will have to be included with the next full version release.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destroyer of Hope
It's 11:05pm Sat, in Virginia. It's almost Sunday. :wall: :wall: :wall:
Romani rules the whole world!
Rome demands victory (the patch) from her generals. Cant wait plunder some Gaullic towns and do very bad thingyz.
Like I said, it isn't Sunday untill I go to bed ;)
California secession ftw!
Back on topic, Khelvan, hurry up and go to bed ;) We in California want to play before we go to bed.
can EB just release the bloody patch already and put an end to this off-topic banter
I agree, the only way to end the off topic banter is to release the patch!Quote:
Originally Posted by mike^_^
Maybe to get off the subject of peoples ethnicities, has any body checked out that shogun mod for rome (forgot the name) that looks pretty good! eh, doesent guys?:eyebrows:
Any more crap like that and I will make sure that we only put the patch up on hosts where we can ban those IP addresses from downloading the patch.
Don't think I won't do it. Your posts have been deleted and you had best cut it out before I get angry.
If Khelvan is in St. Louis, then I suppose the patch is delayed.
And if it isn't, then I'm sorry Khelvan, for all your sexiness you certainly are WHACKED OUT. When do you sleep? Or do you even sleep, with your god-like powers negating whatever your corporeal body may demand?
Or else you really should talk to your doctor about Lunesta. Sometimes we just need a good night's sleep...
Wasn't this thread stickied?
Look up.....:2thumbsup:
Gah, the 0.73 thread was deleted and the patch isn't on the site. That was mean... hehe.
*Edit* I am fully aware though that it's not some ploy, ;) Just probably a last second thing to iron out.
Oh. My. God.
There, I have deleted every single post that had anything to do with coasts. I trust we can all move past this now and not act like five-year-olds any longer?
"My post was deleted but his post was not!" :wall:
crap, i wish i had followed this thread! sounds like it was a good one. ~;)
You know those nature shows where the hyenas are circling some meat and then they just start biting on each other? That was what you missed......Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_John
You think so, eh? Wait until I move it back into the public forum with D/L links that lead to 404 errors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ambiorix
I deserve some amusement after dealing with children who can't play nice together. ~D
Heh, that reminds me of those teachers back in school who would punish the whole class because of one or two kids.
Those one or two kids would promptly have their backsides handed to them at break.
Wait, so are the links in the EB site...for the patch? Or am I downloading something that equates to an inside joke I am not aware of? :inquisitive:
Nothing's a joke that I'm aware of... what links are you talking about?
Uhoh, you started a download before the patch announcement went up? Heh heh, be prepared for a surprise....
smart guy.....Quote:
Originally Posted by A$$A$$IN
So he started downloading from the bad links you guys had posted for like 5 seconds? Mighty fast of him.
now this is getting so cloak and dagger I can't look away...
Khelvan is so sexy and sly...
Might one enlighten us of what the 'inside joke' early download was? Mighty curious. And I'm no cat.
Nothing, I just wanted to say that. To amuse myself.
We updated the downloads page before I got the announcement up. What can I say, Paul is an eager beaver.
I hate it when I miss a flamewar. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
khelvan I'm sorry if anything I said caused any annoyance I thank you and the whole EB team for the new patch downloading it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
I'm gonna be stuffed for work tomorrow :2thumbsup:
Sorry i didn´t know it will take you more time to include those, i though you already have them, and the only reason why you didn´t include them on the patch was because the Internet Speed connection.Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
I suddenly remembered that this wasn't the first time the EB HQ was stormed. You'd think they would have been more prepared this time...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wardo
Seriously, does anybody remember that old thread? I could find the "Truth about EB" topic, but I seems to recall an even older one.
Read the thread if you want to know why I deleted posts. If you have something you want to discuss, send me a PM. Don't post that sort of thing publically. It does not help the situation.
?! why is my talk about the coasts immature? I believe when you posted "I like traffic lights" in that other thread outta nowhere just a while ago, you beat me. Feel free to PM me, im genuienly interested in your reasoning. As im sure you've read the rules for these forums, you must know what you're doing can be reprimanded.
sorry, saw your're edit after this post...but you realize, you could have PMed me as well.
I deleted all talk about coasts because people kept complaining that the flame war which it led to was caused by successive posts further and further back.
I have the discretion to delete flame wars, and I deleted this one, and all posts that led to it. It has nothing to do with you, spam, or off topic posts. If you had bothered to find out what was happening before posting publically about how rude I was for deleting them then perhaps you might have understood what happened and not spoken out of ignorance.
So now, on top of a flame war I have to deal with this. Wonderful.
Edit: I don't have time to PM everyone who has his feelings hurt. Sorry, but I'm not here to walk on eggshells, I'm here to do my job and to try and deal with a patch that has a real problem. If you have an issue, contact me. I'm not going to send individual PM's to 10 people who had their posts deleted. If you couldn't figure out that there was a flamewar which I had to delete I can't help it. Logically you should have deduced that since I NEVER delete "spam" posts, but do delete troll posts and flame wars, that this was a flame war, given my comments. In any case, feel free to challenge me in private and deal with this in a civil manner in the future.
How am i supposed to know of this flame war if it was all deleted?!
think man, think!
I was under the impression that you had only deleted the 4 posts i had seen.
You need to get off your high horse and let people enjoy EB. Maybe you could let someone with experience moderating a higher traffic forum deal with it instead of yourself.
Please, if you are going to be insulted and take things personally, I suggest you find a forum where the posters and moderators are much less "mean," and do not create the "unpleasant posting environment" that we obviously have here with EB.
Because, of course, my goal is to make everyone's experience both posting here and playing EB unenjoyable. :rolleyes:
Khelvan's tyrannical oppression on the forums is simply a sideline. His masterplan is to get everyone addicted to EB, and then cut us all off.Quote:
Originally Posted by khelvan
A truly diabolic work of malign genius!
I propose a motion to lock this thread before people become more aggravated?
Good suggestion. This thread has been nothing but trouble from the beginning.