Wiseman
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I wish to point out an old Design Note post, and I will bold the parts that apply to the issue at hand.
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EpicDuel 2.0:
You may be wondering why we haven't been delivering any "wham bang" updates lately. Where are 2v1 battles? Where are tournaments? Where are quests? I demand an explanation! Well, settle down champ, the answer is actually pretty complicated.
EpicDuel was our first major project, and as with any first venture in anything, there were mistakes, or rather, things we would have done differently if we had more experience. Now, there are over 100k lines of code that are in dire need of an overhaul that we've put off for too long. In order to move forward and deliver those promised features, Titan has taken upon himself wade through the game's code and update it all to a new standard, essentially an EpicDuel Engine 2.0.
This process is not easy or expedient, but it will make EpicDuel faster, more secure, and, of course, more fun for all players. We are planning to replace the engine in phases with each release until the entire engine is completely new, shiny 2.0. This gradual process will take roughly a month to complete.
This update, after tremendous amounts of labor and intense bug testing you should notice...nothing! That's right! For this first phase of EpicDuel 2.0, if everything was done correctly, the game should appear exactly the same as before. That means we didn't break anything, which is a triumph in and of itself. Each subsequent update will hopefully be just as transparent.
Because such massive changes to the Engine are taking place, we badly need your help for this release helping us squish any remaining bugs. Literally every line of code was altered and there aren't enough hours in a day to test every possible scenario. If you identify any bugs, big or small, please post them in the bug's section of the AE forums!
There's your answer, they may have promised those things long ago, but because of mistakes that they have already admitted to, they could not add them. With the changes in code putting out a feature made for the old code could easily break the game, so they probably did build this new 2v1 system recently, or changed the old one. To make sure that the new system would work well with the new code they had to have it tested, and 4 developers alone can not test a feature as big as a new battle mode.
ED Does not have a membership so they made it varium, if they made it founder only all non founders would have complained, same for elite or beta only. If they did it by tokens then players who want achievements or who want to help their faction take a flag would have complained, and if they did it by wins/rank then new players that don't have that status would complain. When a group of players are singled out to help test of something, someone is going to be upset, in this case they made it varium because varium players is the closest thing ED has to a membership. It's also the one thing that other players do have access to, yes they have to spend money to buy the varium, however if it was elite/founder/beta only, then they wouldn't even have that option. And if it was tokens/wins/rating it would take some players time to get the tokens/wins/rating to help with the testing. Varium gives the most access to the most players at the quickest rate available, which makes it perfect for testing a feature. Yes membership would have been better, however since ED doesn't have a membership option, they choose the next best option, varium purchasers.
As for ED 2.0, it's mostly finished, however Titan ran into some issues with the inventory coding that caused it to take much longer then originally expected.
Thanks for reading.
< Message edited by Wiseman -- 5/17/2011 22:05:03 >
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