Thank you for the nice intro, EF.
I'm very pleased to have been given the opportunity to look after my favorite mod. (Sorry Phungus, LoR is number 2.
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As EF said, we have plenty of nifty things in store for the next release. Just to whet your appetites a bit, here's what's either finished, or in the works:
- Improved city and unit graphics.
- A corrected implementation of Varietas Delectat version 8
- A pair of graphic flavor mods to add a little spice to all things random.
- And a little something from me, which will stay a surprise for now.
EF has designed a modding framework to ease the addition of other mods into the BUG core. I'm in the process of converting the above mentioned flavor mods into that framework, and I hope to have them ready in time.
With that in mind, I am also working on porting a few Civs and the Modern Era Expansion pack for Varietas, for those of you (like me), who enjoy those features of Varietas, and would like to use them with BAT.
These will
not be part of the standard BAT releases, as they don't exactly conform to the unaltered gameplay philosophy of BAT, BUG, and BULL. They will be optional add-ons, and will be released as modcomps in the modcomp threads. They will be taken care of by
me, not the BUG team, so don't bug the BUG boys about them, k? They have enough to do.
These add-on packs should be ready within a week or so, and will work with the current, patched version of BAT 2.1.1a. For the next release, I need to work out a few kinks in the Civ pack's XML, and I have plenty to do already, so it may be a while for that.
So, we hope you enjoy your game with the new BAT patch, and we hope you'll have even more fun with the next release. (And no, I don't know when it will be, and if I did, I wouldn't tell anyway. So there.
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And in the event of a water landing, I don't know about your seat cushion, but the one I'm sitting on does not become a flotation device. You're on your own there, sorry.
Stewardess, indeed...
And thank you, Afforess.