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[frodo0800]

no one knows?

[Mushroo]

You don't have it yet? I installed last night, it's awesome!

[Draco18s]

no one knows?

1) It's an update, not a patch.  A patch, by definition, doesn't contain the entire game, just the bits that were changed.
2) No, no one knows.  It's not like it has a date.  It gets done when it gets done, not a minute sooner, so stop whining.
3) We have one of these threads about every month or so.

[freeformschooler]

3) We have one of these threads about every month or so.

Month? I'd say every week.

On the other hand they're not so bad. I like discussing the next update in general without clogging up the FotF thread.

[Draco18s]

3) We have one of these threads about every month or so.

Month? I'd say every week.

"More often than is necessary."

[EmperorJon]

Judging by what toady said the other day, the next version will be in a few years.

Ah yes, here.

I'm still cleaning up the material breath interaction rewrite, which seems to indicate that adding tags for every animal is going to be very hard to finish in any kind of reasonable time, if they all turn into large projects like this. Once this batch of eight is finally handled, I'll have to think about what's going to work for the remaining 112, but spending two days on every one during the weekends would take longer than two years, so that's not going to work. a while to the next update then. See you in a few months for a short break.

 

[frodo0800]

Holy crap, now i see how complex and deep this game is.

[Draco18s]

Holy crap, now i see how complex and deep this game is.

By Jove, I think he's got it!

[nenjin]

Judging by what toady said the other day, the next version will be in a few years.

Ah yes, here.

I'm still cleaning up the material breath interaction rewrite, which seems to indicate that adding tags for every animal is going to be very hard to finish in any kind of reasonable time, if they all turn into large projects like this. Once this batch of eight is finally handled, I'll have to think about what's going to work for the remaining 112, but spending two days on every one during the weekends would take longer than two years, so that's not going to work. a while to the next update then. See you in a few months for a short break.

 

Emphasis mine. If you're going to directly quote Toady, it's best not to put statements like that in his mouth or indicate they aren't his. I had to re-read that devlog post just to make sure.

[Starver]

3) We have one of these threads about every month or so.

Month? I'd say every week.

"More often than is necessary."

Don't know why I thought it might be, but I had to glance twice to check that the acronymic version of your quoted text wasn't intended to spell "M O N T H".

(How about: "More Overly Numerous Than Helpful"? )

[Knight Otu]

Judging by what toady said the other day, the next version will be in a few years.

Ah yes, here.

I'm still cleaning up the material breath interaction rewrite, which seems to indicate that adding tags for every animal is going to be very hard to finish in any kind of reasonable time, if they all turn into large projects like this. Once this batch of eight is finally handled, I'll have to think about what's going to work for the remaining 112, but spending two days on every one during the weekends would take longer than two years, so that's not going to work. a while to the next update then. See you in a few months for a short break.

 

That mention of two years in the dev log has nothing to do with the next version, but with the completion of the sponsorship drive, if he gave the same amount of attention to the following 112 animals as he has to the current batch of eight (and the drive is something he has said he wants to finish before its anniversary, so that's even more reason to disbelieve the years to next release thing). Judging by your wink and your edit to the quote, you know that, but others might take it serious. So no, it is not going to take years for the next version to come out. It'll be a few weeks, perhaps two months.

[metime00]

a couple weeks to a month at the current rate of progress. He is doing markets, then finishing up night creatures probably, and then tying up loose ends in the code and other unforeseen features. A month, maybe two. In the meantime, enjoy the daily devlog posts.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Hey, another one of these threads, it must be Thursday.

But in seriousness, it'll be done when it's done.

[Kon]

no one knows?

I don't think even Toady One the Great knows.

[Starver]

no one knows?

I don't think even Toady One the Great knows.

But somewhere in-between the moment {some particular compile goes through without a hitch/passes whatever running tests are needed on the executable/is successfully uploaded to the server} and an inconceivably short time after he adds some note to the effect that "Dwarf Fortress 0.31.++$n has been released" to the web-site and forums... he is, for that moment in time, very probably the only one who knows that the next version is about to be downloaded by millions of other people.  (Er, a handful.  (Er, probably somewhere between those two figures.))  And is about to be put to the most punishing tests that those int(10**rand(7)) people can possibly devise...