EB v0.8.6.7.5.3.0.9 Release Date

**Reverend Joe** · 11-01-2006, 17:24

0.8.wha?!

Anyway, what I meant was, in fact, CTD's (thanks, Fallen.) Minor wierd bugs can be ignored, as well as usually being easy to fix.

CTD's, on the other hand, SUCK. They are real and true game-ruiners.

If you want to be beta testers rather than beta players, there is no problem whatsoever with that; but you should be aware that it is not nearly as fun, especially if you want to be an effective Beta tester. It's a lot more like work.

**Dayve** · 11-01-2006, 19:16

Originally Posted by Zorba

0.8.wha?!

Anyway, what I meant was, in fact, CTD's (thanks, Fallen.) Minor wierd bugs can be ignored, as well as usually being easy to fix.

CTD's, on the other hand, SUCK. They are real and true game-ruiners.

If you want to be beta testers rather than beta players, there is no problem whatsoever with that; but you should be aware that it is not nearly as fun, especially if you want to be an effective Beta tester. It's a lot more like work.

I could've spent 4 or 5 hours a day bughunting 0.8 when you asked for people to apply to test it, but my application was ignored and i never even recieve a PM to say i had been rejected.

But still, like i've said already... Your loss. I'll do my bughunting whether it be then or when you release it publicly.

By the way, CTD's don't suck all that much, just hit CTRL+S everytime you are about to end turn, i've been doing it since the days of RTR 4.

**Reverend Joe** · 11-01-2006, 20:07

Originally Posted by Dayve

I could've spent 4 or 5 hours a day bughunting 0.8 when you asked for people to apply to test it, but my application was ignored and i never even recieve a PM to say i had been rejected.

But still, like i've said already... Your loss. I'll do my bughunting whether it be then or when you release it publicly.

By the way, CTD's don't suck all that much, just hit CTRL+S everytime you are about to end turn, i've been doing it since the days of RTR 4.

When did I ask for volunteers?

**Foot** · 11-01-2006, 20:12

Originally Posted by Dayve

I could've spent 4 or 5 hours a day bughunting 0.8 when you asked for people to apply to test it, but my application was ignored and i never even recieve a PM to say i had been rejected.

But still, like i've said already... Your loss. I'll do my bughunting whether it be then or when you release it publicly.

By the way, CTD's don't suck all that much, just hit CTRL+S everytime you are about to end turn, i've been doing it since the days of RTR 4.

We said in the thread that if you didn't receive a PM we had not chosen you as a beta-tester. We didn't ignore any application, but we had many and we thought that it would be simpler to send out a PM to everyone who had been accepted, and let those know who hadn't been accepted that if they didn't receive a PM then they had not been accepted.

There are many reasons for choosing a beta-tester, you didn't pass all of them and so we decided not to choose you. Its quite simple, really. I'm sorry that you feel aggreived somehow, but you shouldn't do.

Foot

**AntiochusIII** · 11-02-2006, 02:45

Release sooner and see what happens.

Seriously. EB has enough completely devoted fans to ensure a great amount of defensive barriers against the usual Pessimistic Internet Complainers that will come up at all the bugs that might still be there. A backlash of any kind is utterly unexpected, considering the consistent quality displayed so far of this very much comprehensive mod.

Moreover, it's good to keep people interested. I think there are a lot of people here who'd like to feel as if they are "unofficially in-the-project" in helping with all the bughunts. Just to make sure it's all about bughunts (and let those who dare risk rough terrain appreciate the awesomeness so far), you might as well post a short and cohesive "guidelines for reporting bugs" with all the giddy-diddy about Save-Every-Turn (in different names) and Try-Reproducing-It! that is the stable of the bughunting tasks right after the download link.

That, and most people would rather play the mod in a 1.5 RTW base than a 1.2 base, which is fundamentally far more...complete.

Just my opinion.

**Redigo** · 11-02-2006, 03:39

Just in case some of you haven't noticed Foot's comment in another thread:

We had already decided that we wanted to push ahead with an early release of 0.8 before we put out the public poll, we put out the public poll so that we could gauge what people's reactions would be.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 11-02-2006, 03:46

Originally Posted by Redigo

Just in case some of you haven't noticed Foot's comment in another thread:

Yeah, we wanted to, but we seriously felt we needed to see what the reaction was first. If it had been negative and people wanted to wait, we wouldn't have ignored it.

**khelvan** · 11-02-2006, 05:16

I would not call that statement entirely accurate. We do not make polls simply for making polls. We have been gauging our own ability and desire to release the next version earlier than intended both internally and publically. Calling it a "decision" is not accurate.