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The Heroes Roundtable hat geschrieben: I'm not sure. We were hoping it would be ready before Christmas but there's still a lot to do, so maybe January or February.

Malec hat geschrieben: hab glei mal ne frage, vielleidcht schauen hier nochn paar mehr rein, wird jemand von euch world of warcraft nächstes jahr spielen, wenn es rauskommt? ich ja, würd mich über leuts freuen von hier, mit denen man gemeinsam durch die lande streifen kann, hoffe nur wir werden uns einig, was die seite angeht
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Heroes Round Table hat geschrieben: No, this doesn't mean that 3.58 is ready- we just have incremental updates within our own group- technically we are on 3.58 alpha 12 or something like that (we don't number the updates internally, we just date them)

#27 Feb 18, 04 - 4:00 PM

In Reply To #24

> Can you give me a date for the new release (3.58) please ?
> Thanks for work guys

You're welcome. But..we don't know how long it will take for us to finish. The stack experience system is really cool and will also be quite customizable for those who want to get into it, but it's taking quite a long time to finish and balance. There are other WoG features that need finishing too, plus getting multiplayer to work right (fixing some 3.57f problems and getting the stack experience to work in it too..hopefully) could take some time.

And after everything is finished, I hope we can do an extensive one month single and multiplayer beta test (with Gangrail's testing team and others) and fix any errors during this time to make this an extremely error-free update. To a large extent, the 3.58 update polishes and improves on a number of scripts and features in 3.57f to make them work smoother, as well as adding new features and numerous script options.

Anyway, aside from the testing phase, I guess it could take another month or two or three (I really hope not longer!) -- or maybe I'm wrong and we'll finish faster. But I just don't know. A lot of the work (all the coding) is done by Slava (with new dialogue boxes done by Alexander) and with feedback, ideas and tons of testing by other team members.

Team members also write all the scripts (but Slava adds new commands) and decide and set up the specific bonuses to give creatures for stack experience (but Slava writes the codes to let us give those abilities). So you see, it's a cooperative process but with only one main programmer (who has a real job), it can be slow. And remember this is all done in everyone's free time. There are sometimes delays in script updates or other things when team members have extra work, go away on vacation or have personal stuff to deal with.

I hope this answers everyone's questions about a release date. When we know a real release date or have a better idea, we'll let people know.

- Fnord the Wizard