woh guys - easy does it now...
first off - thank you all for the interest in the scenario. it's nice to know that others look forward to the next version and appreciate all the hard work that is put into making a scenario. it is an amazingly greuling & time consuming process - at least for me.
however, note that i made a promise to some guys that i'd wait until Storm Over Europe (SOE) was released until releasing this. the main reason is that they were kind enough to allow me to include lots of their nice unreleased unit gfx. so considering that - i made a promise and i intend to keep it.
on the matter of the next version and its 'playability':
put it this way - there won't be another version - ie - all bugs have been worked out already. it's certainly 'spit polished' at this point so there'll be no need to 'patch' it (save for future unit gfx).
regarding the status of the 'beta testing':
i wouldn't even call it 'beta' testing. it's more like 'omega' testing in that we're so far advanced into testing it that it's as clean as it'll get i think. i will even go as far to say that once you play it, that you'll realize that there's nothing quite like it on these forums. this is the product of extensive testing and the culmination of several very shsrp minds (the testers that is - they were
incredible and provided huge swaths of ideas, suggestions, and bug hunting reports). where are we right now with it? well - i'm putting in some additional CivP entries for some of the added wonders. there's like 150+ of them that needed entries and links to them. we're about half way through that list right now. once that's done, this hog'll essentially be complete. a last audit of the CivP file by our CivP chief (7ronin) will be the last step.
lastly, i take great pride in the stuff i release here on the forums. and for what it's worth, i've been working essentially non-stop on this hog since last Novemeber! yes! almost a full year! and once it's ready for release, i promise that you guys will like the goods. it's provided me and the testers w/ hours and hours of enjoyment. so hang in there gents. i promise that it'll be well worth it...
PS - on a sidenote - in conjunction w/ the release of this new AoI version, i intend to relase a 'piggy-back' biq file (ie-it'll run off of the AoI folders) for a Euro/Med WWI scenario which i've been slowly plugging away at. so we'll pretty much have 2 scenarios for the price of 1.
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