the Co8 MOD

With the DLL fixes, the new Hickory Branch MOD [new monsters and items], the new voices, the monk fixes and new monk stuff, all of Blues fixes and new stuff, the updated Worldmap, Cujos new stuff, new spells and spell fixes, and the dialogue fixes--have I left anything out(?)--is it too much to think the latest Co8 5.0.2 fixes should actually be named something like Co8 5.5.0 MOD when the its executable installation package is released?

What do the modders think? (yes/no)

 

yeah sounds good to me

 

Well guys, the 5.0.2 name is just a placeholder of sorts. I was originally intending to call it 5.1.0 (it really does deserver a higher version name than 5.0.2 - not that I've ever really understood the whole naming convention thing), but I was worried that it would be far to easy to confuse 5.0.1 and 5.1.0, and I had already delayed wrapping Spellslinger's v11 and v12 into the CMF far too long while trying to decide how to handle it.

Long story short, I felt the need to get it out there, and not really knowing what to call it I just called it 5.0.2. In truth, I don't know if 5.5.0 really does it justice. It is the greatest leap in bug fixing we have had in quite a while, thanks to Spellslinger. And HB is great new content. As always, I will go with whatever the community decides.

 

are you suggesting a leap to Co8 6.0.0?

 

I'm totally cool with making the jump to 5.5, considering the large amount of bug fixes and new content involved.

However, provided the content creators consent (say that three times fast), I'd like to go over the new content like I did the existing monsters and such for rules consistancy for 5.0before we release a new install package, if that's okay with everyone. That way any additional fixes would be bug-related instead of content-related (and I'll look at the crystal oozes and their poison while I'm at it.) Does that sound reasonable?

 

I'd love to see an official 5.1 release, but would people really get confused between 5.0.1 and 5.1? Probably, so maybe make it 5.2 since 5.0.2 has been out around 10 minutes I doubt that would be an issue?

It may be good to follow an odd/even unstable/stable model a bit like Linux. So 5.0 is the 1st stable release of 5, and 5.1 is the bugfix/update version which then gets finalised and released as 5.2, whereupon we start on 5.3! Once that is ready for release, v5.4 gets released etc. I think that a 5.2 upgrade should be finished off as there's some outstanding stuff that needs to go in first, like Allyx Verbo update, and then just tested for a while with nothing by fixes for couple of weeks i.e. no new content goes in. Any new content would have to go into a 5.3 CF. During this 'stabilisation' time, it would be having Kalshane go over rules compliance. (I think you need an official badge mate!)

Once we're happy with 5.2 then build and release the official full install package announcing it to the world along with plans for world domination... :evil_laug

This is simply an idea that occurred to this co8 noob just now, so feel free to shoot it down in flames...

EDIT: Okay I've read the thread properly now, without constant interruptions from children, and it seems everyone's agreed on v5.5 - fair enough. It is a big jump in content & fixes. I still think that we need to stabilise and test what we have a bit more before officially releasing to the masses though. :cool2:

 

5.5 is certainly fine with me if that's what people want. I like Hazelnut's suggestion about odd and even numbers though myself. We could always go with 5.4 or 5.6 if people wanted.

I would obviate the need for a second decimal place which we aren't really using anyway (or we'd be at least 5.0.9 by now) ;-).

Just a thought.

Cuchulainn.

 

@Hazelnut: The answer is very much a big yes. People have signed-on here a lot and asked about 5.1.0 when they should have been asking about 5.0.1. It is very common.

I suggested 5.5 [or if we are going odd/even like linux and windows patches and service packs], it should be named 5.5 [or 5.6] as there is so much new game content as well as fixes. I did not want to just come out and say it should be version 6.0.0 - that is, unless the modding team wants it that way. Personally, I believe 5.5.0 or 5.6.0 is just fine for the final release version.

Maybe when it is all said, including being tested and done with, we should just call it Co8 6.0.0 MOD. Then, we can find ShiningTed and can all start teaming up on Keep of the Borderland and knock it out.

Is it time to put together a single list of what is needed to finish the newest, latest Co8 5 MOD updates toward releasing it, publically? Or, is it too soon? What about the Atari Bug list Gaear dragged over here from Atari? It would be great if that list now on the Co8 site would show fixed, fixed, fixed, fixed, ..., fixed.

What are your thoughts?