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Major Changes Coming - posted on Wed Jul 23 at 10:43:16 by Timothy Collett

Some major changes are coming down the pipe both for BattleMaster and for me in my real life.

On the BattleMaster front, while there is not yet any specific timeframe for it, the Hinterlands feature package is getting close to complete. Playtesting is well underway on what I fully intend to be the last significant part of the package, and once I am confident that the balance on the newest addition is neither going to let people get away with doing zero region maintenance, nor wreck realms that should be healthy, I will begin the process of getting it ready for live, and live ready for it. This will involve some map changes—hopefully small ones—to ensure that the geographic layout does not clash with the new ways that region management is handled with Hinterlands. It will also, rest assured, involve posting as complete a list of changes that Hinterlands brings as I can compile, well in advance of the launch.

On the more personal front, two days ago I accepted a job on another continent. As such, I will soon be moving an ocean away from where I live now—and the area I've lived in my whole life—and I expect this to be a fairly tumultuous process at times. I do not yet have a precise start date for the new job, but this has already taken up quite a bit of my free time, and will definitely take a lot more, so I cannot guarantee when the aforementioned Hinterlands changes will be able to happen. At some point after I have moved, I plan to migrate the BattleMaster server to one closer to my new home, which will, as it has in the past, mean some level of disruption. Throughout this process, however, I will continue to do my best to keep the game running as smoothly as I can manage.