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morvael I for one can't thank you enough for the hard work you've put into what is often a thankless task. I have read and reread your new features and I can't find fault with anything you've done. I'm not going to start a new game until you release the patch. Will any of these new features be in WITW?

I think the patch is mostly ready now, bar some generic data updates and scenario refresh.

My guest bess is that the patch will be made available as a comprehensive one, first as a beta and after an unknown period of time (and hotfixes) made public. That how it was with the previous patches.

I don't know if any of the features will get into WitW, maybe not, but maybe they will affect the designers when they start WitE 2.0 and see that some of the changes made in 1.7.11 to 1.8.0 were good for the health of the game (and liked by the gamers).

Any idea on a possible release date?

I would like to wrap up the package in 10 days, and deliver it to 2by3 before my holiday (I'm leaving on 27th). But it depends on external factors, that I have no control of. Plus, it will take some time to turn the files I will submit into a beta patch installer and to publish it.

The patch is 99% ready, but we need to assemble scenario and generic data change log, and prepare an updated manual. This needs to be packaged and shipped to 2by3, and later to Matrix Games. Since Joel is on holiday, it will be impossible to deliver this to Matrix Games for publication. I start my own holiday on Sunday as well, and will be absent for 10 days (I will monitor the forum, though). As a result it will be the best solution to spend the next two weeks testing the patch and preparing the manual. If all will be well, I will submit the whole package to 2by3 around 10th of August for publication.

Great news, Morvael, thanks for all your work on this.

Thanks, morvael.

I noticed that you live in Poland.

I visited Poland on a brief vacation some years ago during my Army tour of duty in Germany.

I visited the Masurian Lake District. Back in the 1993 when I visited, the young tour guide from Poland befriended me and revealed that unemployment at that time was 30 percent. I hope that this situation is much improved today.

Thanks for the update and have a great holiday!

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Thanks, morvael.

I noticed that you live in Poland.

I visited Poland on a brief vacation some years ago during my Army tour of duty in Germany.

I visited the Masurian Lake District. Back in the 1993 when I visited, the young tour guide from Poland befriended me and revealed that unemployment at that time was 30 percent. I hope that this situation is much improved today.

Oh yeah, we made good progress since them. In 1993 we were barely freed from the iron grasp of the USSR and communism. The gap in GDP per capite is still large, but it gets smaller with every year. Of course there was price to pay for being underdeveloped and lacking capital. Those without patience emigrate to the West to improve their situation on the spot. Can't blame them, but I'm happy I don't have to.

I guess you wouldn't recognize the Masurian Lake District now, at that time there was probably 10% of the current number of tourists there.

The Lake District back then was just barely recognizable as a tourist attraction. There were visitors, and, everyone had a great time, but, it was not crowded. The boat tours were very modest affairs.

I was glad to go to Poland and tell the Polish people myself that, as an American and a US military officer, I admired their courage and determination. I was able to express my heartfelt hope that Poland and the USA would be very good friends in the future.

One of the lads in the group wanted to fight me, but, the others in the group chastised him in Polish, as though my message was heard and appreciated. This happened during the evening after the days tours, when the tour guide and I went into town to look around and buy a bottle of beer. He was a very good interpreter. He spoke English as well as anyone I know. I think that we were in his home town and the lads were a group of his friends from the neighborhood. We hung out in a park or town square. To be fair, I should say that the combative lad was very drunk, so, I didn't take anything personally.

It was a great moment for me.

On a side visit, I visited the ruins of the 19th century fortress at Lotzen and also visited the ruins of Hitler's HQ near Rastenburg.

I love traveling to Europe. I want to go to Poland and Russia next. You get a real feel for history there everything here in the USA is so new.

Just to clarify:

1:1 to 2:1 rule will be a game option rather than an scenario edit. Nice

Alt CV, Game option or scenario edit?

Fort modifier, Game option or scenario edit?

FWIW I like the idea of 50% Fort Mod (I prefer mobile war to trench stuff). 1:1 rule definitely gone from any game I will be playing. Alt CV with lower Soviet Morale sounds good on the face of it.

When this patch comes out it would be nice if someone close to the coal face could recommend some settings and the reasons behind them.

Alt CV is a scenario edit

Fort Modifier is a game option

I only play server games so Alt CV goes off the list for me then. Fort Mod Option is nice.

we wait.... [&o]

And we are working on it as time permits

wasn't the update meant to have been passed to the devs around the 10th?

Morvael just came back from holidays at the weekend and has not much time this week.
As said earlier we hope for an early Beta at the end of the month but that's only possible if nothing major pops up.
Plus I have to start working on the german translation as lots of text had been added or changed but I don't have a german .exe version on hand. This work should be at least partially done for a Beta release.

welcome back to m

Denniss, do you just need the German .exe or something more?