Comments on: Upcoming Tournament, 0.9 plans

By: wanderdown

wanderdown — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:24:10 +0000

I agree with Tiara. I think everyone understands and respects how much work goes into a new release, but it’s only human nature to want to know what’s going on after a self-set deadline has passed. i don’t think anyone really cares about when 0.9 is actually released, i just think everyone would like to be updated on the process.

By: Tiara

Tiara — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:09:15 +0000

uhh…. 0.9 isn’t out, and the first week has passed. Is this just me or…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:36:41 +0000

Is there a new tentative release date for 0.9?

By: RFHolloway

RFHolloway — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:18:24 +0000

Have also put up a suggestion here

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2079.

Regnix – is it worth puting a link or something on the forums here for the weekly tournaments?

By: Regnix

Regnix — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:19:00 +0000

dpeg, weekly mini-tournaments like you mention are held on: http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/

By: dpeg

dpeg — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:20:51 +0000

Igor: no, not really. For some time, the goal is to have bi-annual releases. One before the august tournament (so in July) and the other something like half a year earlier/later.
Releases are good because they force developers to address bugs instead of only adding cool features!
And no, there is no sudden increase in developer spare time. To the contrary, we have lost some heavyweight developers to Work & Real Life. Pity, that. On the upside, that has made us write up more Implementables on Mantis. If you know how to code and want to help, there are some pointers.

Regarding shortened tournaments: most players felt that a full month is too long and too demanding. Three weekends seems to fit with most, so here we are. I would still like to see players organise their own mini-tournaments, like “weekend of the Fedhas Ogre” or somesuch.

By: Excerpt

Excerpt — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:29:23 +0000

Ah yeah, fair enough. That makes a lot of sense. It’s just a pity being in Australia and not being able to get less than ~300 ping. ^.^

By: RFHolloway

RFHolloway — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:10:22 +0000

Why the shortened touranment? – are you only allowed a months worth of tournament per annum? Band width restictions or something else?

By: KiloByte

KiloByte — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:12:10 +0000

Excerpt: to some degree, yeah. It can be optimized more, but not better than a single round-trip per move — ie, parity with console.

Doing more would mean rewriting nearly the entire game in Javascript, and removing the whole reason for a public server: controlled games that don’t leak information to players. If you don’t care about comparing your accomplishment to other players, you would be better off playing tiles locally.

This said, you can greatly speed up server play by setting travel_delay=-1 in your config file. People balk against that because they feel they “lose information”, but that’s just an illusion since the game stops at anything that could possibly affect your play, and the uncovered layout is shown on the map.

By: Excerpt

Excerpt — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:15:43 +0000

Hey, this is a little unrelated, and mostly an inquisition of curiosity; is it at all possible to make the game part of WebTiles more client-side, so as to reduce that awful input lag?

By: igor

igor — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:54:55 +0000

The speed of releases has accelerated. Is this due to developers having more time for Crawl during summer vacation?

By: cheleez

cheleez — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:54:28 +0000

In 0.9,lots of things changed. Need time to accustom…