No, 0.08 does NOT mean 8% complete.
I have too, but I have Asperger's or something, and I details like that always bother me, even when I understand the situation. Rather than 0.1 - 0.9 my minds says it should be 0.01 - 0.09, then 0.10 follows.I guess that I've been playing video games for so long (since Pong) that I've just gotten used to being able to interpret various version formats.
Exactly what I said, version numbers are not 'real numbers' and the decimal points are not that. All the normal rules go right now the window, and they can do whatever they want. They used to use things like v3.73r823, but we got lazy, and now, it's 1.3434.24.35.whatever...
Actually, my point was the middle number. There are a whole bunch of revisions between 1.3.0 and 1.30.0, which is also a good example of the system not being a decimal system. Sometimes I wonder if a different separator might be less confusing for newbies, since the use of . seems to be the issue. A vertical bar, perhaps? v1|32|5?
Uh, you read what it had to say about pre-release versioning, right?
Guys, go fap to ashley. We're moving on to 10th build, and I have no idea when the game will end ;p
There's a piece of software called TeX that has a very odd version number - it's heading towards pi, and each new version adds on a new digit.
Of course I know that. Care to guess what I work on? Open source software!
Only to add.
Yes, usually. They are for testing and not meant for wide distribution.
I'm used to playing games like Skyrim where the mantra is always to save and backup often. Whenever an update to this game starts coming around, I'll always create a zip of my current saves and put them someplace safe.
Technically, this is considered a "Pirate" site, so there really aren't any rules against posting links to any "official" or "leaked" content. Even if there was, I'm fairly certain that many of those posting here had downloaded the game from somewhere else. The best we can do is grit our teeth and try to educate those people inexperienced with gaming, etc. and hope that someone is actually paying attention.
The big "v0.10 ALPHA" right above the link doesn't clue them in?
A long time ago, I read an interesting article that basically said that different versioning schemes serve different purpose for different people. (I lost the link to it a long time ago)
Sadly, too many are not willing to read that much, or don't realize what 'alpha' means.
Oh, if you want rules, you can feast your brain onAutism and/or OCD can make our minds scream out when we see things that go against what we think they should be. Math/Numbers have rules, and version numbers ignore most of them.
Makes sense. I've worked with a few projects that did this.
