Ooooh the suspense!

[Megalos]

Right...I need to vent.

All day i've been refreshing the EB forum in the vain hope of seeing 1.0 released!

Am I safe to stop doing this EB team?, as i'm starting to get strange looks from the missus!

C'mon it's sunday and that's the day (usually) the EB team gives us a little snippet or a preview or something, and with all these teasers going around I thought today might be the day!

Yea I know I need counselling...

...but is anyone else feeling the same?



Deranged Mega

[bovi]

Of course you are safe to stop refreshing. Maybe you'll want to go to bed. You might wake up to a surprise in the morning. Or not.

[Admetos]

But is that you just feeding us the wrong ideas bovi. As MAA said, anything not in the first post of a preview should be taken with a pinch of salt.

[bovi]

Yes. Or maybe not.

[Zaknafien]

who knows? its like Christmas.. or the Easter bunny.

[Admetos]

[abou]

Think of Schroedinger's cat - you know, quantum physics.

[Megalos]

Of course you are safe to stop refreshing. Maybe you'll want to go to bed. You might wake up to a surprise in the morning. Or not.

Right you just made it even worse for me! Thanks Bovi.....no sleep for me tonight then!

[bovi]

Actually, that part was quite serious. You should not lose any sleep over EB being released, no matter whether it's being released today, tomorrow, next week, or at the end of the year. I'm sure you should be fit for work/school tomorrow. This goes for everyone here. In fact, as we're releasing using file sharing systems, it will get downloaded faster once a couple of others have it down completely, so you're not losing very much EB time at all by getting that good sleep.

[Bava]

Hm, i have a defraged D:-drive, a fresh install of RTW 1.6, two torrent clients working flawlessly (testet it with some po...err, educational material), i think im ready for EB 1.0. So, are you?

[Admetos]

Good advice bovi

[Bootsiuv]

Well I've been refreshing the EB page every 1 minute 12 seconds for 96 hours straight in the hopes that EB 1.0 will be on there.

I....must....not sleep....cannot....must be first to....

Ha...wha...hoplitai!...oh....

[Megas Methuselah]

Let's form a lynch mob...

[raenor]

You guys are the masters of making people hate you. Lol. No srsly you are very good at building suspense.

[Watchman]

Or, as I suspect is the case, are more or less done with their parts of the work and now keep themselves occupied messing with the fans.

The Devil finds work for idle hands and all that.

[I Am Herenow]

Think of Schroedinger's cat - you know, quantum physics.

So EB 1.0 is both released and not released?

[blank]

Or, as I suspect is the case, are more or less done with their parts of the work and now keep themselves occupied messing with the fans.

The Devil finds work for idle hands and all that.

yeah most EB team members want to finish their 1.0 campaigns before we release it to the public. We need to enjoy it's many pleasures in privacy.

[I of the Storm]

So EB 1.0 is both released and not released?

Kind of, I suppose. You know, it's the trousers-of-time-thingy. We're in the one leg, where 1.0 isn't released, and there is this other leg, where 1.0 is released, but it's still the same trouser...

[Foot]

I on't know why everyone thought we would release on sunday, monday is the obvious choice (or is that tuesday - I can never remember).

Foot

[Uranos]

I on't know why everyone thought we would release on sunday, monday is the obvious choice (or is that tuesday - I can never remember).

Foot

I know 4 other days that are also excelent time for a release

[Megalos]

I on't know why everyone thought we would release on sunday, monday is the obvious choice (or is that tuesday - I can never remember).

Foot

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

[I of the Storm]

I suspect it all depends on how many video teasers they have produced. I'm afraid it might be quite a bunch. We had 4 already, Saba, Gauls, Seleucid/Ptolemies and the horse-factions. That leaves Romani, Qart-Hadast, Luso, Sweboz, Casse, Epeiros, KH, Makedon, Getai, Pontos, Hayasdan and Baktria. The release frequency of the previous teasers was 2 days, so it will be 23 days to go until the release of the final teaser, which brings us into November and we all now that nobody releases anything in November since that's too early for christmas presents, so we won't see 1.0 before December 1.
QED.

[Foot]

Unfortunately one assumes, by that logic, that the EB team runs on logic. It blatantly does not.

Foot

[pseudocaesar]

Unfortunately one assumes, by that logic, that the EB team runs on logic. It blatantly does not.

Foot

I like how you used logic to dispel EB having logic.

[I of the Storm]

damn...

[Poulp']

Always look to the bright side of things; the waiting gives us ample time to have a clean install and get everything ready so that 1.0 is only a click away.

Now, to help time pass,
How many seeders do you think will we see when the time comes ?

[bovi]

Well, judging by how 0.81a worked, I was the only seed at first, then about 10 more came in the following days, but many of these fell off after a short while. Eventually there were about 4 that I could see with my client, and later I think more have chosen to seed, but I haven't checked. I think I've uploaded 70GB worth of EB by torrent.

Distribution would have been a lot faster if everyone had used torrent then instead of swamping our FTP (exploding our bandwidth limit). Torrent/ED2K should actually be quicker for most people, once more than 10 people get it down and choose to keep sharing. I encourage everyone to keep seeding after getting it down successfully.

[Megalos]

Well, judging by how 0.81a worked, I was the only seed at first, then about 10 more came in the following days, but many of these fell off after a short while. Eventually there were about 4 that I could see with my client, and later I think more have chosen to seed, but I haven't checked. I think I've uploaded 70GB worth of EB by torrent.

Distribution would have been a lot faster if everyone had used torrent then instead of swamping our FTP (exploding our bandwidth limit). Torrent/ED2K should actually be quicker for most people, once more than 10 people get it down and choose to keep sharing. I encourage everyone to keep seeding after getting it down successfully.

Good advice there Bovi! Unfortunatley for poor soles like me in the UK who pretty much all have bad upload speeds, i'm guessing it is going to take at least a week to get down.....oooh the pain!

[Admetos]

Originally Posted by I of the Storm
I suspect it all depends on how many video teasers they have produced. I'm afraid it might be quite a bunch. We had 4 already, Saba, Gauls, Seleucid/Ptolemies and the horse-factions. That leaves Romani, Qart-Hadast, Luso, Sweboz, Casse, Epeiros, KH, Makedon, Getai, Pontos, Hayasdan and Baktria. The release frequency of the previous teasers was 2 days, so it will be 23 days to go until the release of the final teaser, which brings us into November and we all now that nobody releases anything in November since that's too early for christmas presents, so we won't see 1.0 before December 1.
QED.

From EB monthy screenshot competition poll (SEPT.)

Originally Posted by Admetos
Whens the next competition being opened?

Originally Posted by abou
I think we may be waiting for something special.

I think we'll be seeing it soon, at least this month otherwise why are they waiting to open the new screenshot competition

I think you could possibly group the videos together by what actions they will take in the game/area on the map, eg. the Audei and the Arveni previewed together and the same with Arche Seleukeia and the Ptolemaioi. So I'm guessing Makedon, Epiros and KH will be previewed together, and also the Romans and Carthagians. That leaves us with Luso, Sweboz, Casse, Getai, Pontus, Hayasdan and Baktria. But going back to the idea about the screenshot competition, I don't think we'll have to wait too long.

[The Celt]

Unfortunately one assumes, by that logic, that the EB team runs on logic. It blatantly does not.

Foot

I can't believe no one used this sign:

Honestly, what makes you guys think they'll unleash it this week? I'd wager for perhaps two weeks from now give or take. I suggest we all do what I did with the first 0.8 release and go Rip Van Winkle for a month.(x12 that is..)