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[Footkerchief]

What with climbing and jumping being a thing, have you considered toning down the ramps on mountainous terrain? As it stands, it sure is easy for dwarfmode units to just stroll up the side of a cliff, which is especially annoying since it makes it very hard for a player to keep track of them through the Z-levels.

Suggestions go in the Suggestions forum, and changing the terrain isn't a good solution to an interface problem.  Displaying multiple z-levels at once is the way to go.

[Spish]

Perhaps I should edit that part out entirely then, since that was not the point of the question.

[Valtam]

I forgot to thank Toady for the answers as soon as the FotF came up, so thank you Toady.

However, this... This.
Are we betting on estimates again, dabbling release-guessers? It seems that late February-early March is the way to go, but "serious bug list" might hint otherwise.

Amped-up excitement aside, what's the worst that could happen with a recently baked release? Being unplayable? Or is there something even murkier, like PC-wide issues or something like that? Also, is the Windows release coupled by the Mac and Linux versions, or do these come just a bit later?

[misko27]

Moving along through bits and pieces -- fixed a problem with the code that groups armies together when people walk off the map, homogenized some data between local and more abstracted site takeovers/reclaims, worked some with armies coming in from the edges and where they are placed, and fixed some more of that start-on-the-roof stuff. The list of feature items that is left is about half as long as it was ten days ago. There's the serious bug list after that, and then people can mess around with the rough cut (veterans of releases should recall and share with others that there is no polish phase... that is some decades away).

My thought process went something like "Mm hmm, Mmm hmm, I didn't know about that roof stuff, Oh cool we can get a release soo- or maybe not".

[Putnam]

Moving along through bits and pieces -- fixed a problem with the code that groups armies together when people walk off the map, homogenized some data between local and more abstracted site takeovers/reclaims, worked some with armies coming in from the edges and where they are placed, and fixed some more of that start-on-the-roof stuff. The list of feature items that is left is about half as long as it was ten days ago. There's the serious bug list after that, and then people can mess around with the rough cut (veterans of releases should recall and share with others that there is no polish phase... that is some decades away).

"Oh cool we can get a release soo- or maybe not"

I had the opposite thought. "Oh crap, release may be in less than 30 days."

[EnigmaticHat]

I think Toady just said "the release is soon!" but without committing to it because... yah know, Toady, deadlines, oil and water.

[PeridexisErrant]

Are we betting on estimates again, dabbling release-guessers? It seems that late February-early March is the way to go, but "serious bug list" might hint otherwise.

I'd guess that the remaining features will take 2-3 weeks, then a similar length of time for bug fixing.  I'd be surprised but not shocked if it was not in March. 

[FearfulJesuit]

Nah, March seems likely. We can't assume ten days for the rest of the notes; but we can take that as a guess, since he's as likely to burn through what's left as to get stuck. (I hope.) Then, give two to three weeks for bugfixing...and we end up with a probable March release. I suspect the first really stable release won't come out until mid-April, though. Hold onto your hats, gentlemen.

[smirk]

Aye, remaining features might not take long, but bugfixing most likely will. Especially since bugs breed bugs. Sometime March looks probable, and then a few weeks or months after that 'til a good stable version is achieved. Also,

(veterans of releases should recall and share with others that there is no polish phase... that is some decades away)

this made me snort milk out my nose. Reality is now a cartoon.

[Mesa]

Get hype, men.
Going with the majority here and putting my bets on early-mid March.

Good thing that I don't play much in fortress mode (though this release might push me to do it, what with the reclaimable forts in which I can skip or at least partially omit the most boring phase), but I'm pretty sure that the adventure mode's going to be just as buggy as the fort mode.
And it's going to be bloody awesome, I can tell.

[thvaz]

We are all alpha-testers here. Finding bugs (and reporting them) is part of the fun.

[Broken]

Toady fullfils his predictions after all.

He said that the release would be in march. He just forgot to mention the year.

[EnigmaticHat]

He just needs to say "the release will be at midnight" and then suddenly his predictions become very easy to fulfill.

[CaptainArchmage]

He just needs to say "the release will be at midnight" and then suddenly his predictions become very easy to fulfill.

10 more days, then serious bugs, then release. Which means February 14th - March 1st?

.............................

HFS, its about time.

[WordsandChaos]

Are we getting close...? Excuse me, I gotta do a little dance.