What is the deal? EB's direction...

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Can I hit him, can I boss?

I shall explain this as best I can. 0.8 has not changed, we had 2 main tasks for 0.8; convert to 1.5 and integrate the new units who had been languishing in limbo for awhile. However, as many people will know, we ran into a snag with task 1 - coverting to 1.5 - our extensive recruitment and government system caused the game to crash, because 1.5 introduced a small problem whereby having building conditionals in recruitment was not liked by RTW. This was the most important part of EB's recruitment system, and integral to the government system that is really fundamental to EB's gameplay. Whilst we sorted out this problem (not everyone could work on it) we continued to proceed with other areas of the mod, these secondary objectives (such as descriptions, GUIs, Music etc) were not primary objectives and so if they were not ready they would not have delayed the release of 0.8. The recruitment system has been the only thing that has kept us from releasing 0.8, you prat. Our primary tasks have never changed, but when we ran into bugs, we had to fix them and so we have and we are now gearing up for 0.8 (integration of all these parts takes time). How can you judge our behaviour when your position is one of ignorance.

Your perception is matters not, you have often made claims against EB which we have continually refuted and we've had enough. When you made claims about stats you acted as if we were novices in this area - we are not. Now you claim that we can't keep our head out of the clouds - we can. 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.

I find your post offensive, ignorant and malacious. I wouldnt mind if this was a informed criticism, or even if we've kept secret about our problems and you are speaking as a concerned fan. We have not kept any secrets about our problems concerning the conversion to 1.5. Did you that was a lie, that really we were just going over and over the same things again, perfecting everything and forgetting what our main objectives were. We've told the public that we've had troubles with converting to 1.5, but your post seems to say that this hasn't been the case or that we are lying.

We know what 0.8 is, we can see it on the horizon quite clearly, we have put forward targets to the Mod adminstrators and we intend to keep them.

We started talk of EB2 because it was time that we did, we were afraid that if we popped up to late it would lead to a rift between OR and EB. Thankfully, we are currently in talks with them, and collaboration is a certainty.

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