EB news - Sunday, February 19

[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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[Trithemius]

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).

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.

[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.

[Trithemius]

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? :)

[booker]

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..

[khelvan]

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.