1.04 on november 30 ? (formerly november 23 ?)

[Johan]

Postponed until mid january.

 

[Sleepyhead]

Nooooo..

I'll just hope the game gets perfect when the patch is released.
On the bright side, I'll have more time to do homeworks now

 

[Strategist]

Well... we can wait one and a half more month... as long as you keep adding new stuff and want to perfectionize your patch, I dont mind waiting a while longer.

 

[Darks63]

Evil evil well at least this means they might be adding more fixes.

 

[Lord Boreal]

*Cries incredibly loud and throws a tantrum in sleepyhead's direction*

 

[Quarto]

Well, that's... not surprising at all, it's just a little disappointing .

I guess it's understandable, though. Beyond November 30th, the Vic patch couldn't have again been postponed by a week, because it would have clashed with the schedule for the CK patch. And after the CK patch is released on December 15th, the next three weeks are constantly disrupted by holidays and such. So, here's the funny part - what it comes down to is that in terms of working days available for Victoria, January 11th is just a week away.

...Doesn't that make us all feel better?

(you don't have to answer that)

 

[Lord Boreal]

Start a new mini project to keep yourself occupied until the patch finally arrives

 

[tyrel68]

Start a new mini project to keep yourself occupied until the patch finally arrives

To be honest, I have been doing that for months

The last big thing I can do is text exportation which is pure unadulturated evil o

 

[Lord Boreal]

oh noes! take a break from it all then, you probably deserve one

 

[tyrel68]

Well... we can wait one and a half more month... as long as you keep adding new stuff and want to perfectionize your patch, I dont mind waiting a while longer.

True, but to be honest, I am getting tired of waiting

VIP is on hold until the patch so my contributions will not be integrated until it is released.

 

[noddysseus]

This is hardly surprising that there is another delay.

Howevre what does surprise me is that its one hell of a delay which puts this patch behind the release dates of an EU2 patch and CK patch.

It would have been an awful lot better if we hadn't been given the original date for the Victoria update on the calendar methinks.

 

[Sleepyhead]

I hope the CK patch gets released in April

Ah.. Christmas is as good as ruined

 

[Steel Beagle]

Au Contraire Noddy

I appreciate knowing how potentially close it is. Even with delays at least I know it is being seriously worked on. Please keep providing updates. I must say a teaser thread would be nice as well.

 

[unmerged(36636)]

I am happy to know that at least Paradox is working very seriously for the next and perhaps the last patch for Victoria. It seems that the patch 1.04 would be a very major patch and would make the game a lot lot better with many improvements and with the least bugs. I will happily wait for one and a half months more for a complete thorough 1.4 patch for Victoria rather than getting it just now to find it has very little improvents and that it has a lot of bugs.

 

[Quarto]

True, but to be honest, I am getting tired of waiting

VIP is on hold until the patch so my contributions will not be integrated until it is released.

Well, I do have a challenge for you, if you're interested . There's one thing that has always bothered me about Victoria - namely, the graphical interface. I've tried playing with your graphical update, but while it looks nice, it doesn't actually resolve what I consider to be the biggest problem with Victoria's graphics - namely, the fact that they're entirely style-less, devoid of even the slightest touch of the Victorian era.

I would love to see something more Victorian for Victoria... and being a total incompetent when it comes to this kind of thing, I can't do it myself .

Here's a few reference screenshots from other games, to give you some idea of what I'm talking about. Keep in mind, both games were sci-fi and somewhat steampunkish in style, so not everything on those screenshots is what I'd like to see in Vic .

Martian Dreams:
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2

The Chaos Engine:
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2


So, how about it? Pleeeeaaaaaaase?

Howevre what does surprise me is that its one hell of a delay which puts this patch behind the release dates of an EU2 patch and CK patch.

Well, that's what I was trying to explain - it's actually not a big delay. It's just another week or two... but it happens to be in one of the most holiday-infested times of the year, so to this week you have to add two or three weeks of holidays. After the CK patch is released on Dec. 15th, they'll return to working on Victoria (presumably - I'm not a part of the beta, so I don't know more than anybody else), but because of Christmas and the New Year, they won't really be working on it until January.

And why do EU2 and CK get to have their patches done ahead of Victoria? What horrible crime have we commited to deserve this? Well, it's really quite simple - Paradox could put Victoria ahead of the other two, delaying both of them, and angering not one, but three groups of customers. Or they can keep the other two patches on schedule, keeping the vast majority of their customers happy, and bothering only the tiny group of Victoria fans. That's fair - we may well be waiting the longest, but we are the smallest fan group.

Also, consider that the EU2 and CK patches are somewhat less likely to be delayed - the EU2 patch in particular probably doesn't involve any big or even moderate changes, while the CK patch is mainly supposed to be an official release version of the public beta patches that had been produced for the past year or so. So, neither of these two patches is likely to cause delays - while, on the other hand, the Victoria patch has already slipped twice. If they delay the other patches to finish off the Victoria patch, there's no telling whether that delay will be a week, or two months.

 

[tyrel68]

Well, I do have a challenge for you, if you're interested . There's one thing that has always bothered me about Victoria - namely, the graphical interface. I've tried playing with your graphical update, but while it looks nice, it doesn't actually resolve what I consider to be the biggest problem with Victoria's graphics - namely, the fact that they're entirely style-less, devoid of even the slightest touch of the Victorian era.

I would love to see something more Victorian for Victoria... and being a total incompetent when it comes to this kind of thing, I can't do it myself .

Here's a few reference screenshots from other games, to give you some idea of what I'm talking about. Keep in mind, both games were sci-fi and somewhat steampunkish in style, so not everything on those screenshots is what I'd like to see in Vic .

Martian Dreams:
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2

The Chaos Engine:
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2


So, how about it? Pleeeeaaaaaaase?

Geez, you redo one interface and everyone wants a piece of you.

To be honest, I only worked off of BlueOran's Interface.

If someone wants to photoshop the look they want, then I will be glad to try my best. remember, I am not an artist.

 

[unmerged(34316)]

Postponed until mid january.

Christmas with the family is saved

 

[noddysseus]

Well, that's what I was trying to explain - it's actually not a big delay. It's just another week or two... but it happens to be in one of the most holiday-infested times of the year, so to this week you have to add two or three weeks of holidays. After the CK patch is released on Dec. 15th, they'll return to working on Victoria (presumably - I'm not a part of the beta, so I don't know more than anybody else), but because of Christmas and the New Year, they won't really be working on it until January.

Yes you make a good point there. However originally it was November 25th. Now it may as well be January 25th. In real time thats quite a bit of time. But yes, with Christmas and all it really isn't.

And why do EU2 and CK get to have their patches done ahead of Victoria? What horrible crime have we commited to deserve this? Well, it's really quite simple - Paradox could put Victoria ahead of the other two, delaying both of them, and angering not one, but three groups of customers. Or they can keep the other two patches on schedule, keeping the vast majority of their customers happy, and bothering only the tiny group of Victoria fans. That's fair - we may well be waiting the longest, but we are the smallest fan group.

Fair enough. But Victoria have been waiting the longest. Plus the last two polls on the OT forums between Paradox games showed a strong support for Victoria.

Also, consider that the EU2 and CK patches are somewhat less likely to be delayed - the EU2 patch in particular probably doesn't involve any big or even moderate changes, while the CK patch is mainly supposed to be an official release version of the public beta patches that had been produced for the past year or so. So, neither of these two patches is likely to cause delays - while, on the other hand, the Victoria patch has already slipped twice. If they delay the other patches to finish off the Victoria patch, there's no telling whether that delay will be a week, or two months.

Let's hope that there is indeed lots of work being done and that when the patch does come it will be a credit to all the work the betas have put in to it.

 

[OHgamer]

You know what is funny, if this is not a joke, I would be so conflicted.

1) I would love more work to be done as I know this is the last big hurrah for Vickie

2) I would hate the fact that I have to wait anouthe rmonth and a half since I am running out of busy work

Just to set the record straight, this may or may not be the last hurrah for Victoria, if demand for improvements remains strong.

A game is never "finished" until the big man says it is, and nothing from Valhalla has come on that side of things.

 

[tyrel68]

Just to set the record straight, this may or may not be the last hurrah for Victoria, if demand for improvements remains strong.

A game is never "finished" until the big man says it is, and nothing from Valhalla has come on that side of things.

I should have added IMHO after that