Friday 2010-04-09 Discussion Thread

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

We simply very busy. Sorry. And we are rebuilding version. There are so many changes and at the same time current missings, that better nothing to show, than to show and then read that people didn't understand why....

Thank you for posting this But what does 'we are rebuilding version' mean?! Is this a joke?

[Stranzki]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Thank you for posting this But what does 'we are rebuilding version' mean?! Is this a joke?

I think he means that they are putting together a new version of the game - including new features, updated code and so on.

[philip.ed]

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Will it affect time scale?

[Richie]

Pretty sure that is from the 10 min short film called "The German" I put questions up on simhq about it. I'm Hackl in there.



http://www.thegermanmovie.com/

[AndyJWest]

...we are rebuilding version

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Will it affect time scale?

Almost certainly just a normal part of the development process. Most likely, they try to create a 'stable' compile of the software every so often, and then updates to separate parts are tested with this. Every so often, they need to incorporate the changes into a new compile - the 'rebuild' that Oleg refers to. If you try to continually incorporate all changes into your development compile, you can end up with hard-to-track-down conflicts, problems with testing, and much else.

Of course, he could mean he's starting again from scratch.

[Stranzki]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Will it affect time scale?

Putting together new versions of a software internally is a pretty normal process and very important. On this way you can assure that every part of the application is working and more important is working together as a unit.
The other way round would be the "big bang integration". Wait to the very end, put everything together and see what happens - most time nothing works at all and the project is delayed by months, years or is aborted

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Stranzki

I think he means that they are putting together a new version of the game - including new features, updated code and so on.

Correct. Updating version and this means we put together new source code that was developed in parallel by different members of a team. And this means that not always all is going well from the first attempt. Its normal development process.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

We simply very busy. Sorry. And we are rebuilding version. There are so many changes and at the same time current missings, that better nothing to show, than to show and then read that people didn't understand why....

No problem Oleg, take your time! I took over the update personally this week, it is a pleasure to help!

And people didn't understand as well, I gave them the seagulls, now they dispute over their AI, I gave an English tree, now they dispute about branches ... buuuh!

Bye,
Insuber

PS: I'm expecting a two years ban for my shamelessness ...

[Novotny]

Very grateful for the update on the updating

[lbuchele]

Thanks to worry about to explain to us why the friday update was missed.
You really have my respect.
It´s an interesting world , combat flying simulation crowd.
It´s like a writer explaining for his readers every week why he did this and that with the characters in his book and changing the history with the sugestions of the people.
Totally different way to do a form of art. ( I consider game developing a new form of art, tolding histories in a virtual way)