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[samanato]

I'm quite intrigued by the new civ sites as I've heard them described.  Are their specific traits hard-coded, or can you modify them in different ways with the entity raws?

[PeridexisErrant]

I'm quite intrigued by the new civ sites as I've heard them described.  Are their specific traits hard-coded, or can you modify them in different ways with the entity raws?

Hardcoded for the foreseeable future, though I think there are plans to open that up eventually.

[Mesa]

Hey look, a new report!

The game is coming out next week!

PRAISE BE TO TOADY!

[smjjames]

Yep, they ran into some last minute crash issues, so they are doing some cleanup just to be sure. So, just a LIIIIITLE bit longer.

Hey Toady One, are you going to save the final FoTF reply until the release next week? Or just go ahead with it and answer any questions that come up between now and next week when you do the release.

[monk12]

Soon you will get to join us in the living hell of debugging this monster.  I'm only sort of playing!  Almost everything about dwarf behavior had to be changed for this release, so literally every aspect of the game is crawling with bugs.

I just crashed after walking 10 steps with an adventurer, and there were a few justice crashes fixed yesterday.  Soon...  soon...

Only DF makes me go "yessssss" when the devs say something like this.

[Toady One]

Hey Toady One, are you going to save the final FoTF reply until the release next week? Or just go ahead with it and answer any questions that come up between now and next week when you do the release.

I haven't 100% decided, but it hasn't happened yet, so I might just do it after the release.  I could also regret that decision, so I dunno.  There's a lot going on, and there won't be time enough for it to actually fit day by day until several weeks from now.  Then we will be decompressed again.

[Greiger]

Toady and ThreeToe.  I love you.   If I was female I would have your mutant guineapigtoad babies.

Anyway keep up the good work.

[LordBaal]

Never mind bothering with questions, we'll figure out all the questions after release
This really made my week.

[monk12]

Answer to all questions: "I just released the new version, so go find out for yourself."

[Valtam]

Every other game in alpha-betha state:
-Guys, our next release it's coming. It'll be bug-ladden.
-Boohoo, we hate you! why'd you take our money with that Kickstarter? Update things right or don't update at all, *goes on and on*...

Dwarf Fortress:
-"Soon you will get to join us in the living hell of debugging this monster. [...] literally every aspect of the game is crawling with bugs."
-Yaaay! Let me get into the plastic ball pit FIRST!

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Eagerness aside, we're always thankful for this chance. It'll be a fun ride. I'm also with everyone else about questions, we'll have time to answer them ingame and a completely different batch of them around the end of July.

By the way, I've never used the Mantis bug tracker (or any bug tracker before). Is there some kind of how-to or tutorial for the uninitiated?

[Mesa]

By the way, I've never used the Mantis bug tracker (or any bug tracker before). Is there some kind of how-to or tutorial for the uninitiated?

[smjjames]

It's pretty easy to use really. Just check if the bug has been reported first so that we reduce the number of duplicates.

[Greiger]

It's been awhile but I think you need to make an account (just an email verification thing if I recall).  Once you have an account you hit view issues and you can click on the blue buttons near the top to change filter settings like categories.

If you find an issue that isn't reported you click on report issue and it will give you a little document to fill out.  With dropdowns for stuff like category and severity.  And some space to put in descriptions and how to reproduce the bug and stuff like that.

I think it's made to be used by other people working on the project as well as bug reporters, because the main button brings up a page of stuff 'assigned to you' which would probably be stuff you are expected to fix if yer working on the project.  I've never seen a need to use anything but view issues, report issues, and changelog myself.

P.S. View issues may not need an account, but I do think you need one to report an issue, otherwise I would not have gotten one.

[LordBaal]

For especially obscure bugs it helps, if possible to have a save game to recreate it.... and it's posterior weaponization.

[Chaz GELF]

It's a bit of a shame the new release didn't come out today (I was planning on maybe doing a quick Let's Play video of it), but when there's a bug as severe as crashing 10 steps into adventure mode, it's understandable why you'd wanna hold off a bit longer!

So instead, I'll probably try a short "I still have no idea what I'm doing" LP as a farewell to DF2012 (and a hello to DF2014!) Looking forward to hopping into this and doing my part to squash bugs with the rest of the community!