Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Guangcong Luo
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Per Inge Mathisen per.mathi...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote: I think we need a better way to inform the user of why he cannot join games (because there is an autoload mod in his folders) before this is committed. There was no response to this, nor any new patch that

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Guangcong Luo
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Christian Ohm chr@gmx.net wrote: Which would be easier if the savegame format wouldn't be that easy to break. I've started the campaign several times, but didn't get any farther than a few missions before someone broke the savegames again, so had to start

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Christian Ohm
On Friday, 8 January 2010 at 10:22, Guangcong Luo wrote: I thought we haven't changed campaign savegames since like 2.1-era. Tells you how fast I play. And probably the fact that it broke annoyed me so that I started the next try shortly before the next breakage.

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Dennis Schridde
Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 01:27:51 schrieb Stephen Swaney: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:54:10PM -0600, Guangcong Luo wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Per Inge Mathisen per.mathi...@gmail.com wrote: Other than that, I would strongly recommend not pushing any further features into

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Dennis Schridde
Hello! Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 01:32:29 schrieb Guangcong Luo: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net wrote: The whole point of consecutive beta releases is to squeeze out the last remaining bugs in preparation for an actual released version. Every time

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Swaney
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:59:17AM -0600, Guangcong Luo wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Per Inge Mathisen per.mathi...@gmail.com wrote: Easy mod support is not that important. There may be vocal forum users that want it, but they are rarely a good representative sample of our

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-08 Thread Kreuvf
Stephen Swaney wrote: The whole point of consecutive beta releases is to squeeze out the last remaining bugs in preparation for an actual released version. Every time you add a new feature, you create the possibility of new bugs. (see the last couple betas for an example) Adding a new

[warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-07 Thread Per Inge Mathisen
I think we should try to push out a beta7 in the weekend, since beta6 turned out to be quite unstable. I also would like to revert my make all oil visible change since that is holding up a proper release, and it looks like a private map implementation will be a quite intrusive change, not

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-07 Thread Per Inge Mathisen
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Guangcong Luo za...@wz2100.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Per Inge Mathisen per.mathi...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should try to push out a beta7 in the weekend, since beta6 turned out to be quite unstable. ?? Games apparently go out of sync

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-07 Thread Guangcong Luo
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Per Inge Mathisen per.mathi...@gmail.com wrote: Games apparently go out of sync really easy. That is not stable in my book. Games go out of sync slightly more easily than before. That's hardly quite unstable - you'll notice there's only been one bug report; no one

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-07 Thread Stephen Swaney
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:54:10PM -0600, Guangcong Luo wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Per Inge Mathisen per.mathi...@gmail.com wrote: Other than that, I would strongly recommend not pushing any further features into the release branch. The whole point of consecutive beta releases

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-07 Thread Guangcong Luo
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net wrote: The whole point of consecutive beta releases is to squeeze out the last remaining bugs in preparation for an actual released version. Every time you add a new feature, you create the possibility of new bugs. (see the

Re: [warzone2100-dev] Beta 7

2010-01-07 Thread Stephen Swaney
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:32:29PM -0600, Guangcong Luo wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net wrote: The whole point of consecutive beta releases is to squeeze out the last remaining bugs in preparation for an actual released version. Every time you