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Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: CavemanJ on May 13, 2002, 03:09:17 PM

Why not an interim patch to give us some new birds?  Wouldna be the first time we've gotten a new kite in a patch

:D

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: SKurj on May 13, 2002, 03:46:08 PM

Yeah what ^ he said...

Bigger the patch the bigger the bugs!!! (bugs still not solved in 1.09....  CTD last night after crashing into water tail first)

put a coupla planes in per patch starting next week +) and debug along the way!! (so long as in house debugging already complete)


SKurj

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: Kevin14 on May 13, 2002, 03:48:10 PM

I know, I wish the would stick to a set routine of an update a week to release a new plane or fix at least a tiny bug, every week make a new update

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: popeye on May 13, 2002, 04:01:37 PM

So you want a BIGGER load on HTC's servers and connects?

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: SKurj on May 13, 2002, 04:05:34 PM

popeye... its not bigger...

I'd rather a 1-2 mb download once a month than a 10mb download every 3...


SKurj

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: Swoop on May 13, 2002, 04:11:24 PM

yeah besides, we generally sort out the mess made of HTCs servers ourselves with mirrors and urgent file swapping (fond memories of about 50 people ICQing me for 1.09 once I made the mistake of posting I had it :D).....shame the Kazaa idea didnt work.


Swoop

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: Sachs on May 13, 2002, 04:34:57 PM

uu

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: AKSWulfe on May 13, 2002, 06:54:02 PM

And they'd rather do 10mb every 3 months.

It's less of a pain in the bellybutton since you don't have to recompile the code into a patch (which is different than simply compiling the program) which can also introduce more bugs.

10 in a single patch every 3 months is better than 2 in 3 patches spread out over 3 months. Besides, they still need to patch the bugs. You gonna wait an entire month for them to patch those bugs in that release for the next release that will have the next 2 planes?

My moneys on no... but if you say yes... chances are, you are alone.

What you guys want is a lot different than what's efficient or makes more sense.
-SW

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: akak on May 13, 2002, 07:45:20 PM

Quote

Originally posted by SKurj
popeye... its not bigger...

I'd rather a 1-2 mb download once a month than a 10mb download every 3...


SKurj

It's a lot more time consuming to make a patch available every week, then with the possibility of having to release a bug patch for that weekly patch every week.  

You AH guys just be thankful you get as many patches with new features and planes as much as you do.  I've seen more updates in the 6 months since I've started AH than I've seen in over 8 years of playing Air Warrior.  Some guys will never be satisfied I guess.


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Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: CavemanJ on May 13, 2002, 10:54:30 PM

Ahhh sw did ya have to go splash like that?

Ok ok ok, so I need to learn to fish

:D

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: Buzzbait on May 13, 2002, 10:56:24 PM

S!

Better to wait and get the complete early Pacific set they are working on.

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: Thunder on May 14, 2002, 04:33:51 AM

CavemanJ,

I bet HiTech thinks we act like spoiled kids,


Maybe like........

Gosh.......Mommy.... I don't want to wait for Christmas..... I want to go into the closet and play with my new toys right now! It would be easier for me to unwrap a few at a time instead of unwraping them all at once. If I don't like what you give me..you can get me more. huh mommy..huh...huh?


:D


Thunder

Title: right
Post by: bombguy on May 14, 2002, 07:07:06 AM

I agree with waiting. also, if yall have read the news forum. They said they were going to try and put as many new planes in this patch than ever before. I think they should. If the spread it out they couldn't do that.:rolleyes:

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: Skuzzy on May 14, 2002, 07:57:55 AM

Hmmm.

There are significant issues with doing frequent small updates as opposed to less frequent larger updates to any software.

First, look at what it takes to do any type of release of an update.  You first have to freeze the code.  During the freeze time, no further develpment can take place.  Once frozen, you have to go through every file to insure the update is in place, then you have to test to make sure it really works.
This can easily take a week.  During that week, no development work is done.  This is painful for a software developer.  Once you have artists and programmers on a roll, you do not want to interrupt them, which all releases do.
So you set a release pace that everyone is aware of, which allows a more organized break when the freeze date comes.  

Releases are not trivial to do and are very disruptive to the development cycle.  HTC has the most agressive release policy of any software company I have ever seen.  I see no reason whatsoever to change that.

Title: Do we have to wait for 1.10?
Post by: SKurj on May 14, 2002, 01:56:36 PM

ok then +)

How about fixin 1.09 first ...


SKurj