[Jump]

Originally Posted by GM_Istvan on JOSSH Forums

October patch probably delayed

Due to circumstances that I tried to control, but ended up to be beyond my ability, I am now uncertain whether I will be able to release a client patch in October, in violation of my personal policy of providing a monthly patch.

If I can still manage to release something by month-end, I will do so. The possibility still exists that the next Jumpgate patch could happen no earlier than in November. I'll provide further bulletins as events allow.

The content I'm working on has very little to do with the delay. However, some folks may be interested to hear that I've begun investing time on the programmatic areas of Jumpgate's graphics and rendering, including altering the texture loader to handle compressed textures. Changes to the loader will allow us to use what internal art resources we have available at NetDevil to begin a gradual re-texturing of the game. I've also been examining changes to the game's skybox and sector backgrounds, in accordance with exploring simple changes that could dramatically affect the game's appearance and visual appeal. Gameplay features that are expected to see development time prior to releasing the next patch include some economic problems and the original agenda of work on the conflux.

Conflux work is even more likely to be further spread among several patches for the rest of 2004, which I'm rapidly running out of, rather than one big conflux patch as originally intended.

I'm probably just as unhappy about patch delays as anyone else. I'm sorry to be bearing this frustrating news.

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Hmm, both good and bad news in one shot. Does that guy ever sleep?

[Ambrosius]

It's hard to call it bad news, when the "bad news" still has this much "good news" included. Hmmmm, hope that's not one of those paradoxes that ends up being the end of the universe as we know it.