ETA?

[Mulceber]

First of all, let me say that I completely understand the EB team's policy of not telling us when the game's going to be done. There's no way they can be expected to be accurate and it would create a lot of unneeded stress for them to get it done at the appointed time. However, it would be nice if they'd give us SOME kind of ETA for it. It could even be as basic as just telling us what season of what year it currently looks like it will be done by. It'd be perfectly easy to just add a disclaimer that they aren't by any means certain, and if they did create an ETA, it would satiate the "are we there yet?" crowd. Just a suggestion from someone who is eagerly awaiting this great new project. -M

[anubis88]

I think the ETA is just to far off to say anything. I mean you've seen how many previews have been released. Not many. Which means we will have at least 20 more faction previews before the game is out, and if you consider it will be good if they came every month, it will be at least two years till the first release imho... The Gaza campaign may come much sooner though

[bobbin]

I think the ETA is just to far off to say anything. I mean you've seen how many previews have been released. Not many. Which means we will have at least 20 more faction previews before the game is out, and if you consider it will be good if they came every month, it will be at least two years till the first release imho... The Gaza campaign may come much sooner though

What makes you think that we would preview all the factions before release, or that all the factions would be in the first release? It wasn't what happened with EB.

[anubis88]

What makes you think that we would preview all the factions before release, or that all the factions would be in the first release? I wasn't what happened with EB.

Hm... Interesting... Didn't think of that. I just took that for granted. I think i started playing EB once all the current factions were in, so i didn't know that.
It's incouriging though, what you said just now. However, thinking everything you have in mind to do, just what you announced already, it seems EB II is the most massive project of any TW mod ever, so i would guess it will take quite some time to make it playable.

I for one am not in a rush to see EB II released, since to play it i will have to buy a new PC, and franky i don't have the money right now:)
So take your time :D

[oudysseos]

Actually a playable Beta is done, we just feel like keeping it to ourselves.

[Brennus]

Actually a playable Beta is done, we just feel like keeping it to ourselves.

What is it with you Oudysseos and giving out information that makes me all excited? Personally I think we are in a win win situation, the sooner it arrives the sooner we can play it, the longer it takes the better it will be when it does come, nobody loses. Personally i would rather wait longer.

[Ibrahim]

Actually a playable Beta is done, we just feel like keeping it to ourselves.

well, it was shared with me.

[Bucefalo]

Short version: Volunteer work is always irregular, so you can´t expect any ETA.
Long version: The people who work on the EB team do it in their free time, which by definition is the time you have left after doing your obligations. Sometimes you are willing to spend your free time working on a mod for a game, other times you prefer to do something else with your time (like passing time with your family). You can´t expect the EB team to spend every bit of free time they have working on the mod, so in the end advance is irregular and development time depends on how much of their free time each modder is putting into working on the mod. To this add that modding is a very time consuming hobby, and you get the idea why mods take so long to do.

So please, the least we can do is to let the team to work at their pace and don´t insist in asking over and over again "when it´s ready?" but instead if you have so much free time as to being "bored" waiting for EB, you could ask yourself "how can i help?". There are several projects like the faces project, or the film project, whose intent is just that, to offer something people can help without being team members. If you can´t helpt with that, you can always donate for server maintenance, every bit helps. Or if you don´t want or can´t do anything of that, then at least you could just don´t make a new thread asking when it´s done, which gives 1 extra minute of time free for the EB team to work on the mod instead of answering your post.

[XSamatan]

Short version: Volunteer work is always irregular, so you can´t expect any ETA.
Long version: The people who work on the EB team do it in their free time, which by definition is the time you have left after doing your obligations. Sometimes you are willing to spend your free time working on a mod for a game, other times you prefer to do something else with your time (like passing time with your family). You can´t expect the EB team to spend every bit of free time they have working on the mod, so in the end advance is irregular and development time depends on how much of their free time each modder is putting into working on the mod. To this add that modding is a very time consuming hobby, and you get the idea why mods take so long to do.

So please, the least we can do is to let the team to work at their pace and don´t insist in asking over and over again "when it´s ready?" but instead if you have so much free time as to being "bored" waiting for EB, you could ask yourself "how can i help?". There are several projects like the faces project, or the film project, whose intent is just that, to offer something people can help without being team members. If you can´t helpt with that, you can always donate for server maintenance, every bit helps. Or if you don´t want or can´t do anything of that, then at least you could just don´t make a new thread asking when it´s done, which gives 1 extra minute of time free for the EB team to work on the mod instead of answering your post.

Without words.

[Andy1984]

I think the ETA is just to far off to say anything. I mean you've seen how many previews have been released. Not many. Which means we will have at least 20 more faction previews before the game is out, and if you consider it will be good if they came every month, it will be at least two years till the first release imho... The Gaza campaign may come much sooner though

Two year seems a bit much. I'd say wait half a year - then notice how the team will need another half - and buy a new notebook in that time. While no-one can say how long it's going to take, you can just check the previews/twitter and see what has been more or less done and what hasn't. At this moment, I think we can assume a broad range of barbarian, North-African and some hellenistic units have been done or are near completion. On the field of steppe, arabian, roman or punic units/buildings, very few material has been released... which indicates imho alot of work still has to be done on these cultures. I wouldn't expect to be anywhere near the completion of EB2 so long as we haven't seen much more of these cultures, either in previews or at least in twitter-indications.

In the meantime, I've got a good reason not to buy a new notebook. Thanks for that EB-team,

Andy

[oudysseos]

In the meantime, I've got a good reason not to buy a new notebook. Thanks for that EB-team,

Andy

Didn't anybody tell you? EB 2 is for the Wii.

[Macilrille]

These threads pop up all the time, there was one last week, now there is this one...

Suggestion(s)

1) Ludens lock them as soon as he notices. That will stop the "begging for sweets". We are not a bunch of children, show some patience and restraint.

2) at certain time intervals (with CWiF it is every month), someone from the team takes half an hour to do an update here.


Everybody is happy. Or everybody is equally discontent, either way, the begging for sweets stops.

[mountaingoat]

they are waiting for alexander to return from the ether so they can present it to him .. and that he might then travel back and simulate conquering the "known world" ,courtesy of SEGA and CA...

or sometime this decade?

[Gustave]