Welcome to the forum.[:)]ORIGINAL: addo
As the topic suggest when? As most of the members of this forum all I would like is ball park date please.
I know it is a complex game system but it has been a looong time coming I have been following it for at least nine years , date or even a year would be nice.
Cheers.
I've sworn off offering release date estimates. In their place I give monthly reports on what has been accomplished. Recently those have included remarks along the line of: "such-and-such is completed".
For instance, of the 60 phases in the sequence of play, I have no reported bugs to fix in 47 phases. Of the 13 where there are still bugs, 7 have just 1 bug remaining. On the negative side, I have 21 reported bugs related to Vichy France and 24 related to Production Planning (e.g., routing resources overseas to factories, or to be saved).
It takes time to grind these bugs down fine enough that they can be brushed away. I spent 6 hours over the past 2 days trying to figure out why saving a screen layout didn't work, while redefining it worked perfectly. Screen Layouts are a feature where you can position and resize various forms on one or more monitors. For instance, you can dedicate one monitor to the detailed map and then use a second monitor for the global map, combat resolution forms, etc. After much analysis and increasing frustration I finally located the problem as a missing extension (SLY). If you saved the screen layout with a new name, the program worked correctly. It was only when you tried to Save using an existing name that the bug occurred. And as I said, using the Redefine feature worked correctly. I always use Redefine, and so do most of the beta testers. But one of the beta testers was executing Save using the current name for the screen layout. Eh, viola, ze bug she appeared!
Why did I spend so much time on this minor item? Well, I thought it would be easy to fix and only take 5-10 minutes. Then as I dug down into the problem, the hole kept getting deeper. On the plus side, the fix resolved 3 reported bugs (I believe).