[Mike D]

Originally Posted by JeffR

We've fixed some more problems, but aren't happy with the stability in today's build, so we're going to do some more work and testing and try for a Saturday release. Sebastian's cancelled the trip to Berlin he'd had planned for the weekend, and I'm going to skip driving down to Penticton to see the Canucks-Flames rookie game tonight.

We're trying to get rid of all the game-killers (crashes and things that make it impossible to progress) with this patch, as well as some issues that don't require a lot of testing to confirm if they're fixed. Significant alterations to systems like free agency will require a longer testing run - I've got the changes drawn up to keep North American players from signing in Europe so cheaply, for example, but it'd be a bad idea to drop them in now in the midst of the other changes, with a day or less of testing to observe the AI behaviour and the complicating factor of other changes that may alter it. We've learned our lesson from release about trying to cram complex changes like that in at the last minute.

Mac display issues will probably be a second-patch item as well - there are a few of them, they're varied, and in some cases difficult to get to occur on command, so it'll make more sense to tackle those as a group and make sure it's all working properly together, rather than fixing one thing and breaking another, or making a different existing problem worse.

Ok. Looks like next patch I'll give the game another shot. Thanks.