Re: public link to imperial history

So, while checking for my registration date, I happened upon the "Public Link to This History". I've not seen this before and think it's pretty cool. Who knows how many other changes to the game that I'm not aware of? Is there a list of changes somewhere?

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Re: public link to imperial history

1. this seems to be a good post for the questions forum

2. Yes and No, you can find all the changes in the announcement forum, but it takes some digging as there's no rolling list of changes.  Just announcements that were made when the change took place.

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Re: public link to imperial history

Mas overbuilding to a percentage is probably the most useful change in a while.

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Re: public link to imperial history

Is it possible to consider having a rolling list of changes, like a patch release note?

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Re: public link to imperial history

This is something we've discussed before.  The trouble is, we can do it two ways and both have problems:

1) Doing it manually requires somebody to manage it, and while it's not a lot of work it is tedious and not the best use of our resources.  It's also error prone and likely to get stale, which means it's integrity as a source of information is compromised.

2) Doing it programmatically with our existing commit-history to the codebase would be the ideal way, but right now that wouldn't work so well because the way in which we deploy our changes adds so much noise that it would be unreadable/useless to the average user.

The correct solution is to change our current deployment process in a way that supports grouping feature changes so that they could be easily filtered and publicized.  This is something that I'm working on, but is not as easy as it sounds because it requires a non-trivial amount of additional work for all developers involved, including Stefan.  I'm working on some things to make this process as easy as possible but it will take some time and cleverness to get it right, and to convince everybody to work within its design.

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Or you make an extra topic in Main Forums such as Game Developments or something like that and instead of posting the things you upgrade in Announcements you put it there

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Same issue though, it still has to be hand-curated.  Ideally any content that would go in that sub forum should be automatically generated when we commit new features or fixes.

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Also the "Game Developments" forum would basically be the Announcement forums

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Re: public link to imperial history

Well, whatever solution you come up with, I'm happy being thought of, and potentially will become available one day.

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