Crossfire 1.8 release

No i wont give you an exact release date as it is not possible to say when everything will be done and when the beta testing is over.

But what I want to do is to give you a small estimated time plan for the release. I seriously want to release the mod very soon and push it and push myself to the limits atm.

In the next 2 1/2 weeks I intent to finish all work on the new station models and the ships... the modeling part, the loadouts the infocards will get finished by then.
From that time I took 2 weeks off duty to work on the mod... where I intent to finish the systems and the new equipment.
Also some minor retexturing will be done... but that shouldnt take longer than 1 day. Alltogether every system in CF will have an indiviual highres starsphere and individual music.
At the end of august a final bug fixing will be done and some minor features will be included (to finish my todo list).

And then its time for the beta testing. That also will take some time since the testing will be started by just haegar and me in order to do the configs on the flhook and establishing the new launcher/update system together with the new anticheat system.
Then the beta test will start on the development version which will be turned bit by bit into a client and server version (to avoid conflicts and save time while bug fixing).
The bug fixing itself should not take that long since the code of the new crossfire already has been bug fixed several time and is VERY CLEAN meanwhile.
The final beta phase will consist of 3 parts... the singleplayer tests, the opensp tests and the multiplayer tests. All these tests will run at the same time but by different testers (in order to speed up everything).
I am not sure if it will be possible to include the dynamic stuff until the official release... but i hope that it can be done.

That is what we aim for... that is what you can expect.

sry but i am in a hurry

kk

The past 2 weeks i used my vacation to give the CF development a small boost.
The NPC ships are finished (about 60 in total), the factions got finished, more than 100 asteroid fields got reworked and originaly i wanted to have all the new systems finished until today.
Well i finished exactly 2 of them eventhough ive spend somewhat more than 300 working ours on the mod in the past 2 weeks. The good thing is that the biggest part of the equipment (which i wanted to do this week) also got done already. So now the remaining work is building systems, including the voice samples and building quests.
I already went through the bugfixing process last week and the code appears to be absolutly clean so i dont expect much work going into that direction. The balancing of the alien factions, the new ships and the new equipment also has been finished last week.

The systems and the quests are the final major task that has to be done before the mod can get released.
The new server also arrived last week and i intent to do some first online tests of the new mod (eventhough the systems are not finished). I simply have to test some gameplay elements before i can finish the systems.

On 31th august the old CF server will shut down and replaced with the new server (still running 1.7 then). If everthing runs well the coalition systems should get finished this week (if everything runs very well). Then inner core systems need to get finished (again 1 week of work). Then its time to finish the new systems in sirius and doing the quests (there i have no idea how long it will take).

Ive choosen 4 people to do some initial tests with the mod. I will not say who those people are coz its absolutly not in my interest that you start to bother them with questions or requests to get the mod.

PS. if there is a modder here who knows why the new systems dont show missions eventhough they have vignette zones inside pop zones and the factions do match... then feel free to help
It might be that after working that much on the mod i got a bit blind for such probs

there is no mrs