[Concluded] Plantations Open Beta launch day

[Jessy's Dream]

We have a final release date for Plantations. Since this is coming from me (and not from wildly optimistic CJ), you should trust the details below.

-Plantations will be released for OPEN BETA till Saturday (Sunday at worst case scenario, Wednesday at best case scenario)
-Our current status is described as CLOSED BETA.
-The BETA period will last AT LEAST 1 week. During beta period, we will finalize all open troubling issues. These are many and we hope that the playerbase will help us in taking the best decisions for the feature and the game.
-Plantations Open BETA will not move the game version to 2.0. This means that we will continue working mainly on Plantations till we can add all features we want for Plantations Version 1.0
-This means that you must expect the final release soon, at the near future and not at the distant one. The final release, will move PG version to 2.0

Here are open BETA details:
-Only food ports will be available for plantations. (Tobacco ports might also line up pretty fast but not at day 1)
More ports may open up, even during beta. However, this is not our priority and it will also depend on reception.

-There might be minor issues: This will be a beta after all.

What you get in BETA:
-You will get all functionality (CJ will update Plantations post after this announcement with some details)

-You will get BASIC feedback system.

What you will get till final release:

-Enhanced Feedback System

-Events System (Random/Driven beneficial/penalizing System)
(this includes events such as rebellions)

What you will not get at all now
Anything described at Other field at feature main page, will not make it at version 1.0 but may be added at later expansions (these are old news though)

Key missing features during beta

1)Of course, all ports availability.
2)The main thing that BETA will not have, is the events system, which is however old news.
3)There might also be some formula tweaks at final release.


The ultimate reason for the beta, is to give you the feature while we work on the remaining features. Since functionality is there, there is no reason to delay this further.


In case I missed anything or you have specific release questions, please let us know here.
If you have functionality questions, please post here instead.

[sXs]

[Kangaroo]

[William one eye]

Aarrrgh! Sharpen yer pitchforks mateys

[Lachlan]

He looks high

[Captain Jack]

A few details remain for release. Theoretically, we could open the beta now but there is some polishing left to be done, so this will instead happen tomorrow.

[DezNutz]

A few details remain for release. Theoretically, we could open the beta now but there is some polishing left to be done, so this will instead happen tomorrow.

Awesome! Can't wait to see how it works.

[Meliva]

wonder how long until a guide is made for plantations. I certainly intend to try my hand in it, so who knows, maybe ill make the first guide for the feature .

Or maybe we can make this a race-see who makes the first proper guide for it.

[Captain Jack]

I am actually concerned about it.

My first impressions are that the interface is a bit poor. We have increased the amount of feedback you get from the plantation in the last few weeks. Before BETA is over, which we hope it will last only for a short time, we will improve the amount and quality of feedback more.

[Captain Jack]

Ahoy all,

We won't eventually make it today. There are two key reasons:
1)We are currently revising workers happiness formula. We do not feel very confident about it right now and we feel drained to finish the revision now.
2)We are past 19:00 game time, which was our deadline for releasing. We cannot release it this late. Ideally, we want to release it around 13:00 to 15:00, so we will have plenty of hours where we will be actively around, ready to fix any early issues and help with the feature early on.

Which means, that for the sake of all this work, we will delay yet another day. Tomorrow is the day!

Thank you for all your patience and understanding.