My apologies if this doesn't come out well, I had surgery earlier this week and the days that I expected to be sitting back working on this with nothing else to do turned out to be crappy, drug hazed days of nothing.
Several people have asked me about including the khalifate for this release, something that I would very much like to do. I think it is a shame they were removed before as they would be in much better shape by now I expect. In the time since they were removed there were some changes, some improvements - but the reality is that they have languished. People have come forward from time to time to help but energy is low, and I confess I have been very unmotivated to put time into polishing the khalifate or recruiting others since they were removed from mainline. I know that opinions will differ, but in my opinion the khalifate era is ready to include in mainline. Is it as good as the default era? No. I can't imagine that it will ever be as good as default until some time after it has been mainlined and polished with the same love that other parts of the game receive. To the extent that there can ever be consensus about these things, there is a loose consensus among the part of the multiplayer community that I talk to that they are fun and it would be worth including them. They were tested in a multiplayer tournament this summer by a segment of some of the more active ladder players and there is a desire there to see more of them. As I see it, the main reason against including the khalifate at this time would be that they are not as polished as many other parts of the game. If that is the reason, then I can't fight against it, I can just state my opinion that if that is the criterion then we will never see another faction added to mainline. There are several advantages to adding them now that I see. First, this is the kind of change that could get a chunk of the multiplayer community back to playing on the development server, which would be great for the health of bug testing and future releases. I don't think I'm alone in lamenting that few regular users are testing the development branch on the multiplayer server, leading to bugs going unnoticed until crunch time or after a release. Secondly, it is the quickest way to make up for lost time - these guys have trickled along for many years. After they were added last time there was quite a bit of good work that was done fixing and formatting - tweaks that were not thought of until more eyes were looking at them and so on. So what is needed? 1. unit descriptions updates - noy thinks this can be finished in the next few days 2. files from umc-dev to be merged into trunk - I tried to do this last time and created a number of problems. I will need help or someone who is better at this sort of thing to just do it. 3. double checking of missing parts/glaring errors 4. post merge testing to be sure everything works. Others? I don't know, I am fading fast and my mind is not very clear. I expect to be able to put in a lot of time toward this next week, but #2 is what needs to happen the soonest and it will be slow if I do it. So that leaves me asking for help. If the khalifate are going to make it in into mainline for this release then some delay will be needed, otherwise we punt...and maybe it happens "down the road". Apologies if this is rambling, I think I better just stop now. George (wintermute/happygrue) On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM, David Mikos <[email protected] > wrote: > Also for the record, I am all good as well. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
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