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[Mr S]

On 10/17/15 Toady said "Four more things to go.", and the Hype Train has not yet left the station at full steam!?  Frankly, I'm disappointed, Forum. B)

[iceball3]

On 10/17/15 Toady said "Four more things to go.", and the Hype Train has not yet left the station at full steam!?  Frankly, I'm disappointed, Forum. B)

The overseer forgot to mandate the construction of more minecarts!
Either that or someone tried to fill them with lava whilst they were made of wood. Oops.

[Button]

On 10/17/15 Toady said "Four more things to go.", and the Hype Train has not yet left the station at full steam!?  Frankly, I'm disappointed, Forum. B)

It would be wonderful if the new release came out in time for Thanksgiving, so I could spend the weekend playtesting and updating my mods. But I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

[Bouchart]

Those four things could take a month.

[cochramd]

As someone else pointed out, it's not unrealistic for someone to hate art but secretly wish to create a great work of art. However, what is unrealistic is for someone to continue hating art after they've fulfilled that secret wish. Are events that alter personality traits and personal values coming somewhere down the line?

[LordBaal]

Those four things could also take a year.

[SimRobert2001]

Those four things could also be replaced with "four things and a buttload of bugs.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Those four things could also be replaced with "four things and a buttload of bugs.

I don't think anyone's expecting a bug free release. It's 4 things, a week of closed testing then 6 months of open testing, bug reporting/fixing/tweaking.

[Silverybearded]

From the list of remaining things:

(*) clean up some stuff with personality needs (mainly polishing off adventurer arguments over values)
(*) go through some more non-dwarf item code testing in the fort
(*) let long-term residents bug you a bit if you aren't holding up your end of arrangements
(*) tavern reputation improvements/indications
(*) allow diplomats and bandits to visit your tavern(merchants are harder due to old code, will probably skip)
(*) clean up conflicts with meetings/witness reports and the new time-off mechanics
(*) improve spectator text (again...)
(*) improve performance text (again...)
(*) rumor display (maps perhaps, though if that falls through we might skip)
(*) payment as bard (or something, it's hard in the current framework)
(*) position as bard (as above)
(*) a few minor improvements to musical form descriptions
(*) more distinctions in individual composition as opposed to form (it'll still be very sparse for now)
(*) test passing incident rumors by song, in particular changing non-art reputations by lyrical content

[Striked out based on what the blog says]
What did I miss?

[Shonai_Dweller]

I think the comment about grumpy residents refers to the third item down. Strike that and we're left with four.

[Knight Otu]

From the list of remaining things:

(*) clean up some stuff with personality needs (mainly polishing off adventurer arguments over values)
(*) go through some more non-dwarf item code testing in the fort
(*) let long-term residents bug you a bit if you aren't holding up your end of arrangements
(*) tavern reputation improvements/indications
(*) allow diplomats and bandits to visit your tavern(merchants are harder due to old code, will probably skip)
(*) clean up conflicts with meetings/witness reports and the new time-off mechanics
(*) improve spectator text (again...)
(*) improve performance text (again...)
(*) rumor display (maps perhaps, though if that falls through we might skip)
(*) payment as bard (or something, it's hard in the current framework)
(*) position as bard (as above)
(*) a few minor improvements to musical form descriptions
(*) more distinctions in individual composition as opposed to form (it'll still be very sparse for now)
(*) test passing incident rumors by song, in particular changing non-art reputations by lyrical content

[Striked out based on what the blog says]
What did I miss?

I think you're wrong about "tavern reputation improvements/indications". I'm pretty sure that refers to reputation of Dwarf Mode taverns, not reputation effects reducing tavern prices. I assume the actual finished item is "more distinctions in individual composition as opposed to form".

[Random_Dragon]

Hnnng, just getting more hyped every day. Will be eager to see what I need to do to update my preferred Wanderer's Friend derivative. :V

[LordBaal]

I predict an early christmas release.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I predict an early christmas release.

When is early Christmas?
Round here the shops switch to Christmas mode the moment Halloween is over...

[AceSV]

My prediction is that he'll aim for a January release and start labeling them DF2014, DF2015, DF2016 instead of v.numbers.  I'm excited to try the new features, but given that the last major version completely destroyed sieges, I'd rather see it progress slow and smooth and just make the game well.