Are we ever going to start playing?

[Nikolai]

Waiting?

[NicodaMax]

I'm waiting for the patch to come
I know that it will save us all
When everything's dark
Keeps us from the stark reality

I'm waiting for the patch to come
When everything is playable
And there in the still
All that you feel
Is tranquillity

did somebody say something?

[conmcb25]

i VOTE FOR SOMETHING

[alva]

Should be here real soon now.

/me ducks.

[EPW]

**** the patch lets start.

[Paddy]

maybe this game forum is just one big frustrating +1 factory...

[Jon Miller]

you all know that they will delay the patch so that it comes out with Warlord

we could already have one nation eliminated by now

Jon Miller

[E_T]

Well, as for if we are sitting on our thumbs or being productive, Team Sarantium has taken this time to do some productive discussions & polls. We haven't been idle, even though we wait.

I'm still of the opinion that we should wait. As it is, we did kind of get into this demogame a bit faster than some of the other ones.
But we will also get the best out of the game, once we have finally started.

And, I think that we will be happy that we had waited for the patch.

E_T

[Harovan]

I haven't played a couple of months. In fact, not a single game with 1.52. No time and shift of interest. I wasn't aware, that the game is in such a sorry state, that a whole democracy game can't start until a patch comes out. Or is it an issue of savegame-compatibility? That would be pretty unprofessional and disappoint me.

[Nikolai]

I think a save made with 1.52 should be possible to play with the new patch. It was possible with the old one --> 1.52 at least.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I think a save made with 1.52 should be possible to play with the new patch. It was possible with the old one --> 1.52 at least.

there were some posts that stated the patch was not backwards compatible...

there has been no confirmation of this yet sadly

so we live the life of mushrooms

[Harovan]

Not being backward compatible means, that you can't play a savegame made with the new patch on an old, unpatched system. It does not mean, that you can't play a savegame of an older version with a patched system (this means it's forward compatible).

Which would be fine with me. Who does not apply the latest patch, can't be the turnplayer, big deal. Everybody should patch his game anyway.

What else are we waiting for?

[Paddy]

well have you seen any confirmation that it is forward compatible?

[Harovan]

No, but to my knowledge every patch since PtW has been forward compatible. IIRC there was only one patch in plain Civ3, which was not. Or at least it was announced not to be, but on a test it worked anyway. Perhaps there were circumstances where it would not.

Releasing software versions, which can not handle and convert data from previous releases, is highly unprofessional and generally frowned upon. It is good tradition, and it would disappoint me very much if this tradition would be violated in Civ4. Just have a look at Windows - for forward compatibility's sake many of the old (and ugly!) DOS habits from the 80's were dragged into the new century and finally dealt with only in systems like 2000 and XP (and even there not completely).

[Paddy]

all good points indeed

and I ever hopeful you are right....

sure would be good if they could confirm somethings...