When should we release?

[Jubal]

Basically, should we do it as soon as possible and get a quick alpha/beta out, or wait until we have something really polished?

[TTG4]

I reckon we could do a small scale release so bug checking can be more efficient, but only really publicise it when we think we've got it working nicely. Where are we at the moment?

[Jubal]

We're still a way off, mostly in terms of graphical resources aka units, banners, menu loading screens, etc etc. We could probably get something out with ten or eleven basic unit types pretty quickly, but getting the full size unit rosters done will take time.

[TTG4]

That may be worth it for several of us to test for bugs? I'd volunteer myself, but my CD/DVD drive is refusing to play anything, gonna see if I can't get it to behave over the weekend.

[Ezrael]

I'd offer too but my Rome disc is at t'other end of the country

[nickwizzo]

I have my Rome disc with me and it definitely works. I am more than happy to bug test.

[TTG4]

It's behaving again thanks to a very cliche american lens cleaning disc. I'll happily be a lab rat if you need one.

[joek]

I would tend towards the open source release model of release publicly as early as you get something reasonably stable, and ask for beta testers to report back. I would offer to test, but: a) my disk of RTW is somewhere in my hometown, probably, and b) I don't have 8 hours to spend messing about with getting RTW working on WINE.

[nickwizzo]

How long do you think before we'll have a beta version to play around with? (Read this as "I don't want to revise.")

[Jubal]

I'd like to get townies and possibly tourists done unit-wise, and put the starting garrisons into all the towns, those are the main jobs left really before we have a beta.

[TTG4]

How long do you think before we'll have a beta version to play around with? (Read this as "I don't want to revise.")

What this guy said, if we can do anything to speed it up Jubal just ask!

[Jubal]

Can we get townie and tourist descriptions done? Those will be the two main rebel units, so they're fairly important to get a balancedish campaign working.