What happened to .81?

[sages]

It was going to be released any minute and 'days' several weeks ago. I've been holding off playing waiting for it to show up... Vacation is over officially tonight, and no sign of it! *snif*

[blacksnail]

Some persistent bugs, some delays due to real life, and then the holidays affecting the team members. Right now we're testing internally.

Believe me, we aren't happy either. The plan is to get this thing out ASAP.

[Dooz]

One thing you learn with EB is that you never hold your breath. You should have just played .80 during your break, although it's completely understandable what your thought process was. Alas, now break is over and .80 wasn't even enjoyed as it should have been.

[Zastrow]

Yeah, I've played EB, but have not let myself get too terribly attached to any particular campaign, less the next day the patch come out and make me start a new one.

[-Praetor-]

Yeah, I've played EB, but have not let myself get too terribly attached to any particular campaign, less the next day the patch come out and make me start a new one.

It`s the exact thing that happens to me too.

Anyways, this has been useful for me, since I`ve tried almost every faction on the game, in advance for a more stable campaign in 0.81.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Sorry guys, but it's just as blacksnail said. For a good laugh it was initially expected to be a patch released "after a couple of days" to fix a few issues that were discovered during the last compilation stages of 080. Or at least I saw that term thrown out once.

I'm out of here now for a few days and I do fully expect to see new lists of what we missed still in the bug reports section when I get back. (which means I am hoping it will be out for a couple of days at least by the time I'm back )

[Pode]

<snip>I'm out of here now for a few days <snip>I am hoping it will be out for a couple of days at least by the time I'm back

For tonight's math homework, EB fans, TA has left us with the following problem:

"Few" - "Couple" = ?

Teasing, TA, enjoy your break. Somehow I'll manage not to gnaw my fingers off in anticipation. Just please do your damnedest to squash any AI turn CTD bugs. Everything else I can live with, it's a beta, as long as I can keep playing it.

[Dumbass]

For tonight's math homework, EB fans, TA has left us with the following problem:

"Few" - "Couple" = ?

Few + Couple = Fewple.... Duh.

[Pode]

Few + Couple = Fewple.... Duh.

Yes, but what is Few MINUS Couple?

(I'm gonna enjoy this WAYYYYY too much . . . .)

Read the problem, Dumbass

Thanks for the setup, man. That was just too good not to take advantage of at your expense. Just messin' with you, not flaming.

[sages]

Yes, but what is Few MINUS Couple?

(I'm gonna enjoy this WAYYYYY too much . . . .)

Read the problem, Dumbass

PWNT! :=)

Yeah, I should have just played .80... but I got kinda into Mount and Blade after a recommendation from this board.

Hmm... a few is generally 3, a couple is generally 2, so 3 - 2 is usually about 1, and this was posted yesterday, which means .81 must be out today. Yeah!

But I won't take any bets.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Apparently:

"Few" - "Couple" = ?

With ? being equal to:
"misreading" + "setup" + "expectations" - "bets" = "misreadingsetupexpectations" > error
For:
You can't remove part of a string, if that particular part doesn't even exist within the string!

Therefore:
"Few" - "Couple" = error

Therefore:
It's no wonder that EB takes so long to get bugfree...
Also: before the error pops up, it seems as if a setup based on misreadings is to be expected...

Otherwise:
"Few" - "Couple" > error
For:
You can't remove part of a string, if that particular part doesn't even exist within the string!
Therefore:
It's no wonder that EB takes so long to get bugfree...

Either way: Teleklos Archelaou teached us how bugs come into being.

[Zaknafien]

Have faith, guys. The internal version is being tested now, as in, I have to re-start my campaign to test it! :(

[Zalmoxis]

Thing is, I haven't played that much on .8, and instead I waited for the patch to come out. Hope you get it done soon.

[Numahr]

Zalmoxis,

You know there will always be a "better tomorrow"... we should still enjoy what we have now. So I am tempted to say: come on, play 0.8, it already has got everything to give you a wonderful playing experience. Maybe play with another faction than the ONE you want to play with the full features, e.g. if you're a fan of Carthage play as the Gauls for the time being...

I just think we should not discard what we already have just because of what we may have soon!

[galathas]

Will there be new units in 0.81.

[paullus]

a few galathas. we'll have the getai family member for one. its not a unit, but it is a new and glorious model/skin!

[galathas]

sound nice.

[Spendios]

Will there be new units in 0.81.

also hellenic standards and officers (they are in check your dmb but due to last minute edu problem they don't appear).

[Dumbass]

Yes, but what is Few MINUS Couple?

(I'm gonna enjoy this WAYYYYY too much . . . .)

Read the problem, Dumbass

Thanks for the setup, man. That was just too good not to take advantage of at your expense. Just messin' with you, not flaming.

Oh god, the shame. My name has backfired onto me... again.

[sages]

Well, it's now tomorrow instead of merely today, aka yesterday, which means that few - couple != today (where today is in fact yesterday). There's still a chance that it equals tomorrow (which is in fact today), but I'm not very hopeful.

My recommendation to the EB folks is that they just forgo this whole 'testing' business in favor of writing bug-free code / scripts. It's much more efficient.

I wonder if few - couple = fw - coupl ?

Wait, I know! If you assign numbers to each letter, aka a = 1, b = 2 then...

few = 34
couple = 72

So, few - couple = -38. Therefore, by this calcuation, EB .81 shipped right around Thanksgiving. Or maybe in -38 BCE? Hard to say.

No wait, I got it! It shipped in 1969!

[Caesar Vastator]

Well, it's now tomorrow instead of merely today, aka yesterday, which means that few - couple != today (where today is in fact yesterday). There's still a chance that it equals tomorrow (which is in fact today), but I'm not very hopeful.

My recommendation to the EB folks is that they just forgo this whole 'testing' business in favor of writing bug-free code / scripts. It's much more efficient.

I wonder if few - couple = fw - coupl ?

Wait, I know! If you assign numbers to each letter, aka a = 1, b = 2 then...

few = 34
couple = 72

So, few - couple = -38. Therefore, by this calcuation, EB .81 shipped right around Thanksgiving. Or maybe in -38 BCE? Hard to say.

No wait, I got it! It shipped in 1969!

This strange behaviour is caused by the abstinence from EB. To heal yourself go and play EB 0.8! Or wait EB 0.81, if the abstinence will not kill you...

[skuzzy]

Or assign few - couple as an iterator and thus index = few - couple = -38

while(!index)
{
index++;
}

assuming index is quantified as a day that means that EB 0.81 will be out Feb 12th... so ENJOY 0.8. And if you ask why not 2/11 with my current structure then you'll be banished from this forum to live a life of solitude on some flame war forum such as somethingawful.com

[fallen851]

You guys have it all wrong.

Let us work this out:

Few - Couple = ?

So we minus and E from few since couple has one, and we get:

Fw - Coupl

Now fw has a double U (W), and since coupl has a single U, we minus that out and are left with:

Fu - Copl

So... we know what the meaning of "FU" is... and the minus sign is really a hypen...

But who is copl?

Why it is the Canadian Online Poker League! (http://www.copl.ca/)

Apparently, TA has been gambling a bit much, which is why he is out of town, and he is displaying his hatred of his addiction subtly...

[Caratacos]

It's getting a bit Da Vinci Code in here. Next we'll learn that the Catholic church is working to delay .81 and sending assissins after EB members

[sages]

You guys have it all wrong.

Let us work this out:

Few - Couple = ?

So we minus and E from few since couple has one, and we get:

Fw - Coupl

Now fw has a double U (W), and since coupl has a single U, we minus that out and are left with:

Fu - Copl

So... we know what the meaning of "FU" is... and the minus sign is really a hypen...

But who is copl?

Why it is the Canadian Online Poker League! (http://www.copl.ca/)

Apparently, TA has been gambling a bit much, which is why he is out of town, and he is displaying his hatred of his addiction subtly...

Verrrrry nice. I like that much better than Feb 12th. The last thing I need is .81 coming out 2 days before Valentines day. That's a catastrophe in the making.

[Pode]

It's getting a bit Da Vinci Code in here.

Are you saying that the Canadian Online Poker League has ties to the Freemasons?

And yeah, the cure for all this is definitely to play 0.80, but the alt-tab support isn't fast enough that I have the guts to do that from "work"

[sages]

Okay, okay. This is just going too far. Folks aren't getting the seriousness of this situation. Because I can't play EB .81 right now, small fluffy bunnies are BEING MURDERED. In all sorts of nasty ways.

Save a bunny. Release EB .81 today.

[Tellos Athenaios]

...And Bunny may continue to take over the world!!!

Question: how long would it take EB from being bannend in some country, for being a) teribbly addictive and b) harmful to one's sanity (see above), or simply because it's considered some sort of new drugs?

[Pode]

Shut up TA. Seriously. I live in the US, we're dumb enough to do exactly that. As evidence, two years ago, concerned about the rapid rise of ecstasy use among young people (won't someone please think of the children!), one of our distinguished Congresscritters introduced a bill that would have classified bottled water and glowsticks as drug paraphenalia. Meaning you could be arrested for possession of EITHER. Thank God / Goddess / gods / Reason / the ancestors it didn't pass, but still . . .

Besides, EB features full frontal male nudity (worse than female nudity, don't ask why, it's not supposed to make sense), and you saw how much trouble GTA and Rockstar got into for a mod that featured CLOTHED consensual adult sex (modeled in less detail than the EB units).

So let's not call attention to EB's ban potential, shall we? Remember, Klein vs AT&T demonstrated that the NSA gets a copy of all this. <Hi guys, how's life in the data mines tonight?>

Sorry for the OT rant, that just triggered my "I want my Amendments back" mode.

So do any of the team testing 0.81 want to drop us some teasers from their test campaigns?

[Zaknafien]

I havent started mine yet, but been playing some custom battles and I do love some of the new cards.