It's waaaaaaay too early for April Fools.  A beta update is getting bumped a week back, a -second- time, because of an announcement?  Something that takes all of five seconds to post a wall of text?  The Sins update was meant to be this week, wasn't it?  This is starting to get a little ridiculous.

Yeah. I'm thinking; nerf to the Diplomacy pirates, fixes for all the abilities that autocast with no target, and hopefully some of the balance fixes people have been asking for since the last update.

EDIT: And Scoutdog, I'm going to make you care about the Impulse+Sins updates I curse you to never get better again until you care!

An upgrade to the fileservers, and take it out of the sysadmins' paychecks!!   And if any of the slaves complain, the next announcement will come at 9pm on a Saturday night!

It's OK, Everquest 2 expansion coming out on the 16th, so I am good for a few days.

/ducks the incoming rotten vegetation projectiles

So just to clarify, the "we're" in "we're getting bumped" is beta 1G?

And to further clarify, this is the last beta version before beta 2, which is when those of us who aren't in yet but want to be should pre-order to get?

Just make sure that whatever you guys are doing with Impulse, it is something that I could easily turn off or otherwise ignore. Few things annoy me more than a dramatic change to the user interface, or radical change to how things work. More so if I very much liked how things worked before the change.

Regardless, I'll try to keep an open mind for things to come...

I'm waiting for Beta 2. Go Beta 2!

:: sigh :: Always the bridesmaid...

Sad Face......

That's me. I'm going to die of sadness now because of lack of Beta 2 syndrome. It's terminal.

You're the CEO, can't you tell everyone to do both or is there not enough man power? I don't mind another week as time for more polish is a good thing, just curious though. Aside from man power maybe being an issue, what would one thing coming out have to do with the other?

Early april Fools! oh you got us good Brad.....

^^^^

Wishfull thinking....

Well, seems like we have to wait another week. Actually I have nothing againts delays, but I do not really like the excuses you are using for them. I mean announcment? Cmon... How that can delay a release twice? Even when it is not on the same day? Just try to be a little bit more honest, thats all.

Yes, it's all lies. It's just how I roll.

Here's how it works: We don't get to just copy some files up onto a network drive for people to copy. The IT team has to take what we give them and put it up and there's a finite number of people for that.  Last week, those resources were dominated by Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity and Diplomacy.  This week, there's a big announcement/release with Impulse that is dominating the IT resources.  Since Elemental is a BETA and the specific week of its release is not considered critical, it gets easily bumped.  That will happen throughout the beta cycle.

On the bright-side, we get another week to polish and add features, so 1G is gonna' kinda' blow everyone's brains out their skulls!!!

(hopefully)

(...and hopefully not literally)

edit: And an IT thing, as the Frog has spoken.

Heh. I don't think so.  It'll just be slightly less painful.