{"id":1145,"date":"2015-07-23T17:05:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:08:08","slug":"another-nestalgia-v1-70-progress-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/another-nestalgia-v1-70-progress-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Another NEStalgia v1.70 Progress Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KotE<\/a>As most of you are aware, the v1.70 update<\/a> has been “on the verge of release” for several weeks now. Quoting myself from last month:<\/p>\n

The biggest concern is dealing with players who still have savefiles on multiple servers, mostly\u00a0in\u00a0regards to\u00a0merging files and\/or\u00a0dealing with excess characters that can\u2019t be merged. There\u2019s no perfect solution to that issue and it\u2019s probably going to eat up a ton of time, so bear with me as I get it sorted out.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…unfortunately I was right, in that figuring out a solution to that problem gobbled\u00a0up a *ton* of time.\u00a0There were\u00a0several occasions when\u00a0I told players that\u00a0I just needed\u00a0another day or two at most to finish things up,\u00a0only to find myself slogging through a bunch of additional unexpected development work. Though that’s the\u00a0nature of software development, it never gets any easier to cope with (or in my case, predict).<\/p>\n

The good news is that v1.70 will now include a bunch\u00a0of bug fixes (courtesy of Spiff), and even more back-end optimizations than I had originally planned. Also, the solutions that I’ve come up with to handle the aforementioned extra savefiles will put users in direct control of handling their excess characters without any outside help. That means that after v1.70 I’ll be able to\u00a0take myself\u00a0out of the equation for savefile transfer and merging operations, which will be a huge relief moving forward.<\/p>\n

My goal<\/em> is to get v1.70 out this weekend, and then to run a little Steam promotion next week alongside the beta release of the new universal webclient<\/a>. Granted, that’s been my goal for the past few weeks, so keep that in mind when placing your bets!<\/p>\n

Key of the Exiles News<\/h5>\n

Working on\u00a0v1.70 has left me pretty drained. Every time that I’ve sat down this month to\u00a0write a KotE-centric\u00a0blog post, I’ve ended up starting at a blank page for 20 minutes before giving up and returning to the development grind on v1.70. I know that many of you are hungry for more KotE news, and I’m going to try my best to prepare something cool for next week’s update.<\/p>\n

I was planning to\u00a0wait until we were closer to release before showing this image, but because I feel bad about flaking out on this month’s weekly updates\u00a0I feel like I need to give\u00a0you something<\/em> related to KotE today:<\/p>\n

\"NEStalgia:<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, the title artwork for Key of the Exiles, along with a slightly redesigned NEStalgia logo. After KotE is released, players will see this title screen once they hit the new content. You’ll be seeing more images like this (and the new logo) once I’m ready to start promoting the expansion.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back next Thursday with another weekly update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most of you are aware, the v1.70 update has been “on the verge of release” for several weeks now. Quoting myself from last month: The biggest concern is dealing with players who still have savefiles on multiple servers, mostly\u00a0in\u00a0regards to\u00a0merging files and\/or\u00a0dealing with excess characters that can\u2019t be merged. There\u2019s no perfect solution to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}