EB news - Sunday, February 19

[Kull]

P.S. My wife hates you guys

Imagine what ours think. I've been sleeping on the couch for 60 days and counting.....

[Djurre]

Great! and the best thing is, i'm not married. the gf will just have to get comfortable with me conquering the civilized world.

[booker]

Awesome! i reinstalled EB beta a few Hours ago. :)

I was off the eb forum for a while, i was wondering if the AI money script have been tweaked?

[Ergion]

Hmm, maybe Saturday, unless something goes terribly wrong.

[Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom]

Hmm, maybe Saturday, unless something goes terribly wrong.

I kind of resent you guys for realeasing such an early version of the game as ive become a dribbling, murmuring reck, and was unable to play EB for a while when my Casse campaign kept CTD'ing. I would find my self downstairs in the middle of the night unconciously ironing sheets of europabarbarorum forum pages about the patch, while as usual dribling continoulsy. BUT NOW THERES GONNA BE A PATCH AND I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SpawnOfEbil]

Hmm, maybe Saturday, unless something goes terribly wrong.

*dies and doesn;t get a chance to play*

[Trithemius]

Hmm, maybe Saturday, unless something goes terribly wrong.

*ominous lightning and thunder*

[Ignoramus]

Will you make it possible to download the finished product at the end, instead of downloading 100 patches or so?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

At the end? Sure. Seeing how we have not yet released a single patch though, I think this is a little premature.

[Ignoramus]

Just making sure, because I find very difficult downloading so many patches.

Thanks for this amazing mod, you deserve a lot of praise for this masterpiece.

[khelvan]

Sorry, what do you mean, "so many patches?"

[booker]

I guess he meant in General.. with so many mods around... and some of them with their patches.

Or maybe he meant with those "add on", the animation etc...

I guess he meant to those... coz EB don´t have a single patch yet...

[Kull]

Or maybe he meant with those "add on", the animation etc...

I guess he meant to those... coz EB don´t have a single patch yet...

Touche. Within the team, we're pretty clear on the terminology of what a patch is, versus rushing out little fixes for some of the OB problems. But I can certainly see how that distinction might be lost on the players.

[Djurre]

It's been saturday for over 14 hours now, in my timezone. Time to cut the bull**** and release the patch. will you be adding dragons and wizards and seamonsters and, my favourite, gandalf, to the game?

just checking

[oudysseos]

Gandalf? No, not Gandalf.
Amazons.
Naked Amazons.

[O'ETAIPOS]

As it was stated before no new units this time. But if you want, we could think of some for the next relase. So what which one you want - Dragons, Gandalf or Amazons?

Main team is working on US time Dijure so theyre saturday is in "still sleeping" phase.

[mike^_^]

As it was stated before no new units this time.

then what's this mean?

The patch is 106 megabytes unpacked.

[Djurre]

I'd go with the dragons. I've found some real reliable sources stating dragons were rather common north of pella, and near the vesusius. Í think i can find some on those intelligent design forums. youd be amased at how wrong we all are. did you know god created earth? really, they figured it out the scienetific way !!!

ok, this is offtopic. I guess i'll have to wat unti tomorrow then. good luch to you all

[Abokasee]

"WE WANT PATCH! WE WANT PATCH! WE WANT PATCH!"

An angry mob surrounds the EB headquarters, bricks, rocks and fireworks blast through the windows, TA is hit in the head and dies instantly, splattering blood all over his office. QwertyMIDX cries like a little baby on the corner of the room, sucking his thumb, with peed pants.

Ranika knows a revolution when he sees one, and he knows the situation is about to get out of control. "We need to put an end to this crisis, if we cannot give them what they want, we must at least distract them long enough to give us time to evacuate through the hidden emergency tunnel." - sentenced Ranika.

Khelvan, the Supreme fearless God of EB, knew what he had to do - "I'm the captain of this boat, and I'm sinking with it. You must all go now, I'll delay the barbarians". But he knew he didn't had the patch, it was all a lie, but even if he had it, what would happen if he caved in to the demands of the savage mob? Give them a finger and they'll rip off your arm, what would they demand next? A port to 1.5 in less than 3 days?

So he thought of something else, Khelvan bravely marched through the narrow corridors of the EB Mansion, ducking from time to time to avoid the pointy, sharp rocks that flew all around zooming through the windows. He approached the balcony and heard the loud angry cries from below.

"DEATH TO EB!" - the vandals shouted while burning EB flags.

Khelvan sneaked to the balcony, took a deep breathe, and rose as a valiant, brave knight.

"Fans of EB! Hear me!" - announced Khelvan.

The crowd suddenly froze, there was absolute silence, except for the sound of the burning flags, and some random screams from EB members who were hit by harmfull objects. But it was silent enough. And then, the crowd finally realized it was Khelvan, their God, and they bursted in joy.

"Khelvan! Khelvan! I love you! Marry me!" - said one of the protesters.

"My loyal worshippers, you gave your blood, your gold and your life for me. For that I am grateful. Without you, EB wouldn't be possible. I have promised a Patch, and I will give you a Patch."

The mob cheered.

"And now I present you, the PATCH!" - And then Khelvan took this out of his pocket and lifted it high in the air.

"Ooooooh! It can't be! He came out of the closet!" - said one of the mobsters.

Flames sparkled in the eyes of every protester, they have been fooled, by Khelvan, their God was a fraud. Before Khelvan knew it a throwing dagger hit him in the crotch - "Yeouch!" - he cried.

Then he heard someone scream - "That's what you get for modeling naked fanatics without Tiger-pattern thongs!".

He looked down at his crotch in severe pain and noticed something had been chopped off.

"Don't worry Khelvan, that's what you always wanted, now your sex change surgery will be cheaper" - said Ranika, offering his hand to Khelvan, who was now kneeling at the floor in pain - "Come now, it's time for us to leave".

And since then, nobody heard anything from Khelvan, EB or the Patch ever again.

at what point does bartix help?

[O'ETAIPOS]

then what's this mean?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Teleklos A.
The patch is 106 megabytes unpacked.

Every altered file needs to be included in full lenght, and there are some sprites also.

[Zenith Darksea]

Sprites? Hurrah! At last I can look at some of my units from a distance!

[khelvan]

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).

[Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom]

So whats up wheres the patch??

[Ludens]

So whats up wheres the patch??

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.

[john289]

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.

[mike^_^]

30 MB from the UI directory

ahh so some of those grey peasants have been fixed? or the new GUI's? little of both?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

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).

This applies to unit textures, unit UI cards, building icons, and building constructed images.

[Kull]

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!"

[oudysseos]

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?

[Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom]

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?