Any idea when the next patch is expected?
From The Galactic Civilizations III road-map thread
(Summer) Would imply prior to September 20, 2016 You're Welcome .
Hmmm, Summer is July August... FALL would be September with the onset of School. (Argues for a sooner release date......)
Fall start September 21.
I think most people see fall starting with the month of September, not 3 weeks into it....
Fall starts at the Autumnal Equinox, and has nothing to do with silly human clocks or calendars. According to our silly clocks and calendars, it is September 22, 2016 at 14:21 UTC. Not that this helps the discussion or determines Stardock's schedule, but it is the closest thing to useful information I know of available.
So the 21st is the end of summer.
Yes this is the official end of summer. Well if most doesn't follow when summer ends then it's not stardock fault when they wait until the end of summer. The reason most people think it's the beginning of September is that is when school use to start. Summer doesn't really begin at the first of June that is just when school ends. It starts on June 21.
From freedictionary.com:
"The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November..."
From the Wikipedia entry for Autumn:
"Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn", while others with a longer temperature lag treat it as the start of autumn.[2] Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere)[3] use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere,[4] and March, April and May in the southern hemisphere."
From Live Science:
"The autumnal equinox is the beginning of "astronomical autumn," which ends with the start of winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, that is from around September 22 to about December 22, though it varies from year to year, according to the NOAA. In the Southern Hemisphere, the season runs from about March 20 to June 21.
Weather forecasters and some countries define the season as "meteorological autumn" by the three months in which the weather changes. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is September, October, and November. In the Southern Hemisphere, meteorological autumn occurs in March, April, and May."
In other words, the astronomical definition, while cute and clear, is not necessarily the relevant definition...
The reason many Americans (and other people in temperate climates in the Northern Hemisphere) think fall begins at September is because that is what many people mean when they say fall -- that is how language works...it's important to recognize that the scientific meaning of many words typically is NOT the same as the general usage of the word....that doesn't make the non-scientific usage wrong, it simply underlines the importance of context, and in this context it is perfectly reasonable to think that by "fall" the OP (who is American) was meaning by the end of August or so...certainly the OP could choose to clarify their intended meaning of a contextual term that possesses multiple meanings, but it is by no error of the reader to think the intended meaning of "Summer" was by September....
The very concept of fall as a season is grounded in local changes in temperature, and those changes occur at different times in different places...a rigid date of September 21st, quite frankly, is at odds with the very purpose of an inherently contextualized term...in other words, the September 21st definition is technically correct but hardly relevant in most situations....
This is why, in certain contexts, I started using the coinage "close enough for folk magic". Works in almost all applications.
Still, all this wisdom and we are no closer to knowing when the next update is.
1.81 is in testing and should be announced shortly. We are also now Developing Crusade in Tandem, but will be continue to patch the base game pretty regularly until it's release next year.
Thanks for the update. Is 1.81 the large empire ui or just an bug fix patch on the way to the new features?
Something tells me Paul that you are going to need more help as you are 'rebuilding' from the ground up the entire game. While I am very VERY excited for our beloved game I can't help but think you may be a bit irked that you are redoing all your work (again). If I was a software engineer Paul I would happily volunteer (free) time to help you. I wish you no mistakes and hope your goal is reached smoothly and way under budget (unrealistic but one can hope)!
@Mormegil
Q: What do you think of putting the XML files into github or something similar? Community members who find find errors could then create pull requests with fixes. Would make us feel good, as the stuff might get fixed sooner. Would help Stardock in that some of the QA work could get completed by the community at large.
- Manii Names
We updated to 1.81 today. Check it out:
https://forums.galciv3.com/478793
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