Development Resumes When?

[TechSY730]

With the public beta of AVWW in full swing, I understand you guys are very busy with that. (5 versions in 3 days, that's crazy!) However, I'm wondering how long it will be until a bit a marginal attention can be shifted back to AI War, like you have been giving to it that last few weeks. (I'm guessing it won't be the focus of attention again until the next expansion starts being developed)

Also, if it is not too much to ask, can 5.018 be pushed out soonish, seeing as there is unlikely to be anything else added to it in the near future?

EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot. Congrats on the AVWW release. I may have only tried the first beta of it so far, but I am liking what I see. I'm going to have to try it seriously (and read the getting started guide for real) pretty soon here.

EDIT2: Oh, I am not trying to pressure you into working on AI War again. This was just a simply me being curious.

[x4000]

Well, things are already settling down into a bit more of a routine with AVWW, so that we're not so swamped with questions and press and new players and so on as we were the first couple of days.  The hardest period is when only a really small number of people can answer the questions of the general player populace.  As things progress and the players are able to answer things for one another in an ever-expanding group, that gets easier and we're able to spend more time on development rather than giving tips.

In terms of AI War, things have mostly been quiet on the forums here and I've not seen a lot in the way of requests come through mantis.  There was a desync Keith looked into right after AVWW came out, but he couldn't duplicate it.  As for the stuff in 5.018, I wasn't aware there was stuff queued to go out, but now I see there is.  I'll put that on my list to get out before too long.

These things always go in cycles; the same thing happened while Tidalis was being developed and when it was in beta, and then AI War had it's busiest and most changed-filled period ever after that.  Frankly I don't ever see doing THAT again with AI War (one complete re-envisioning is enough for me per game, heh), but I do want to build some majorly new large stuff on top of what is there.  There's also some enhancements we're working on for AVWW that we'll be able to backport to AI War at some point in the future, too, which I'm looking forward to (but they're not even done in AVWW, so it's moot yet).  Mostly GUI/performance type of stuff.

Thanks for the congrats on the AVWW release!

[keith.lamothe]

I'd like to get the Attritioner changes in to 5.018 before we push that; I might do that tonight or tomorrow night to wind down from AVWW for the day, not sure.

[x4000]

Okay, just let me know on that.

[zoutzakje]

There was a desync Keith looked into right after AVWW came out, but he couldn't duplicate it.

heh, that's my desync ^^
still can't finish that game
ah well, suppose I'll just have to let it go since keith can't duplicate it, hope I won't get a desync in my next game.
and congrats on the AVWW release ^^ can't wait till it comes out on steam so I can actually buy it.