Patch is on hold..

[oldStatesman]

Oh yes it does. Read the post "real" carefully. It's not in the text of the message you usually think of. On the red border just before the title it say " Nov 22, 2005 until Nov 29, 2005". What I can tell you, is that it's not a typical post somebody would make, but an "announcement", which is likely to be a designation of how long that announcement will be posted, and then perhaps disappear, however, if that's what it means, then would that also be an indication that they are "off" that long and won't return to fix the patch till 11/29 at the earliest? Maybe just a coincidence or maybe a very deliberate message to the minimum it won't be fixed.

You are reaching here..probably the forum software default for announcements is a week...that same announcement was originally announcing the patch...she edited the text and title after it was pulled.

 

[Charles 22]

You are reaching here..probably the forum software default for announcements is a week...that same announcement was originally announcing the patch...she edited the text and title after it was pulled.

Yes, I thought about it a little bit more, and you're probably right. I will caution however that it's quite common for like half of the employees from companies to take off a whole week at Thanksgiving, such that waiting that long, unintentional time period of the message or not, it just might happen. Of course, realizing, that wasn't actually an official launch, such that they may had planned to release it when they got back from vacation (I'm not saying they're on one, but they may be), or maybe just before Thanksgiving. I also would think that if the date on that border had anything to do with a delay on the fixing of the patch, then she would have put that either in the title or in the message itself. Sorry, been working in IT long enough to see that people will often put a key portion of their message in some of the screwiest places. I don't think I've noticed chieftess with a peculiar habit like that.

 

[suspendinlight]

Well yeah, if we don't hear from them tomorrow, we probably won't see anything until the 28th at least.

 

[onedreamer]

Well for those that obivously think its easy to get such a huge game bugfree and bugfree patches, i just say go on if its so easy then make the fan community patches like people do for Vampire Bloodlines, the game calls itself very mod friendly so i am sure it would be no problem to make patches by yourself, unless you considere it too much work.

I wonder if the people posting this kind of ludicrous excuses have a job at all, or if they ever had any. Firaxis programmers are professionals, Take2 testers are professionals, therefore we, the customers, expect a bugfree product from them. I think this is only natural. As it is natural that not always this can happen. Any job you have, whatever it is, you have to try to do it in the best way possible, this doesn't mean you should be perfect because we all know that human beings are definitely NOT perfect, though continuous mistaking cannot be excused every time with just a smile and a: "oh well, I wouldn't be able to do it better, so they are forgiven".

 

[Smidlee]

Well, I had no issues with Nimroy, it worked fine.

The one and only thing wrong I found was that WorldBuilder does not work. Nothing happens if you click it.

Off to play some working hotseat with my brother.
Who cares about worlbuilder?
(exempt moders and cheaters)

Try moving your Civ 4 folder from "My games" in document to desktop then start civ4 to see if that help. I was able to use WB after I clean everything out yet save this folder just in case.

 

[Matthias73]

Has anybody an idea where i can get the patch that they called back? Any download possibility?

 

[Roetghoer]

there was a great demand for a faulty game by t2, and there is also a demand for the faulty patch

 

[Flak]

Here are the changes...

Changes:
- increased cost of Apollo Program...
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Added:
- Include WB map size in the description field
...
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Fixes:
- ATI issue Failed to Init Renderer Fixed
...
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- Intro movie crashing problems
- * Fixed the bug where the game won't start *

I would really have liked to have seen that last fix put into this patch.

Anyway, if somebody want's me to host the pulled version of the patch, I'm pretty sure I have the webspace to do it. So I will just need somebody to get the patch over to me.

 

[holocanthe]

if you understand how much the programming is difficult, or if you can program without any bugs, you can criticize them.
I've played 1.08. It works fine. Yes, it has many bugs but they are trying to fix it. It's the most important things.

I pay for a playable game, not for to have a PC crash.

And in my version, it is necessary to add translations bugs

 

[Carewolf]

I have a better conspiracy:

[facts]
According to the various posts Firaxis "released" or wanted to release the patch on the 15th of November. Since then it has been in 2ks QA. Now it was released and within hours the patch is pulled because of critical bugs.

CivIV 1.0 was also through QA and released with critical bugs.
[/facts]

[theory]
QA are using the fact that their job effiency is hard to measure to do absolutely nothing.
Nothing at all. Zip, squat, zilch, except drinking coffee and eating donuts.
[/theory]

 

[Dual_]

So.. can anybody host this patch untill the next one is released??

 

[DavidBeoulve]

The patch appears to make the game playable for me. I'm in love!

My only issue is that when a city finishes building something, it doesn't bother to ask me what I should build next. What option do I set to get that back?

 

[Prince David]

Sorry, I haven't been paying terribly close attention to this thread, and a quick browse has left me confused. Is the patch available or not? How can we down load it if it's not at the official site? If it was pulled/on hold, what is this thing that everyone is downloading? And if this "current" patch works, why was it not released? And most importantly, should I even bother to download this patch, or just wait for the "official" one. (Which is no real problem as I will be out of town for all of the long holiday weekend anyway.)

 

[Psyringe]

The patch is on hold, because it does have some issues / bugs. It can't be officially downloaded at the moment. Some people nevertheless try to get hold of it because they patch *does* fix some issues that make playing impossible for them, and they rather have a buggy patch than a totally non-playable game.

In your case, I'd recommend to wait for the official patch.

 

[CorruptAssassin]

is it so hard to read a few posts in this thread?

 

[Xerol]

Oh yes it does. Read the post "real" carefully. It's not in the text of the message you usually think of. On the red border just before the title it say " Nov 22, 2005 until Nov 29, 2005". What I can tell you, is that it's not a typical post somebody would make, but an "announcement", which is likely to be a designation of how long that announcement will be posted, and then perhaps disappear, however, if that's what it means, then would that also be an indication that they are "off" that long and won't return to fix the patch till 11/29 at the earliest? Maybe just a coincidence or maybe a very deliberate message to the minimum it won't be fixed.

I think that's just the default length of an announcement.

 

[tcjsavannah]

Well, I was one of the "lucky" ones to get the patch downloaded and installed before it was pulled. I haven't tried the World Builder yet, but the game seems to be working OK for me (it was before with only the occasional crash to desktop) ... should I just not worry about uninstalling and keep playing?

 

[CorruptAssassin]

well if you are having no problems, why go through the hassle?

 

[TSteamer]

The patch is on hold, because it does have some issues / bugs. It can't be officially downloaded at the moment. Some people nevertheless try to get hold of it because they patch *does* fix some issues that make playing impossible for them, and they rather have a buggy patch than a totally non-playable game.

Think of them as "unexpected features" rather than "bugs".

Then I recommend we all have a shot of burbon. It wont fix anything, but I find it helps a bit.

 

[Prince David]

is it so hard to read a few posts in this thread?

Of course not. Providing I can locate the pertinent "few" out of the (17 pages x 20 posts/page = ) 320+ posts that currently make up this thread.

Is it so hard to be understanding and help a guy out? Or at the very least keep the snarky comments to yourself?

Thanks, Psyringe.