retired_w0lfpack1

No flames, here, but even if its as simple as changing a constant:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">#define NUM_SUBS_EPL 5</pre>
to

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">#define NUM_SUBS_EPL 7</pre>
Its likely to be "too late" for the patch.

If you assume that they were hoping to release the patch, say, Monday evening of next week, they would have had their "code freeze" last week, and they'd probably have made their "candidate build" already.

The reason for that is, suppose there's some kind of knock-on effect, that only becomes obvious in long-term play? Even though its - on the surface - an innocuous change, maybe it throws off the game balance a bit. They can't expect their QA team to play through ten to twenty seasons between tonight and Monday to find the problem ..

... and of course, if they release it "broken", they're going to get flamed all over the boards.

Worse, it wouldn't be as simple as changing a constant, because you'd have to "special-case" this year's competition so that it was 5 subs, with the change to 7 subs only coming in next year...

Now, if they weren't planning to release the patch for another couple weeks, that would probably be all right .. and even if the release is night, they might decide that its an important enough to make the change anyways.

But I wouldn't bet money on it!

retired_w0lfpack1

(Wishes, for the umpteen-hundredth time, for an edit function.)

mkil5

[quote]Originally posted by Amaroq:

I wouldn't expect it until the end of the month