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Originally Posted by Meiva
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I've been trying to sort out the timeline on the wiki, and unfortunately I am finding patch note history from the original timeline that does not follow the official release timeline. The post from Nilbog claims to follow the release timeline, though I wonder if this timeline was made official before some of the official patch notes that people have dug up from 1999.
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I can't respond to your specific points, since I'm not a timeline expert, but I can provide context.
First off, you have to understand that the Timeline page was made by a few wiki editors (myself included) copying patch notes from other sites into the wiki ... in response to Green (prior to that the wiki only had links to some patch note sites).
But all that happened literally over a decade after this project was started, and Nilbog had been assembling his own classic timeline for ten years prior to that. So it's
possible, but unlikely, that the wiki unearthed anything he didn't already know of.
Also, the Verant patches didn't come in nice monthly chunks, so Nilbog deliberately releases them in an unclassic monthly way. And I think he takes some liberties there: I don't think it's literally "If Verant released something in a 30-day period, Nilbog will release it in that month's patch" ... it might instead get released in the patch for the month before or after.
But again, none of that is to say that any of your points are wrong ... just keep in mind that Nilbog has been at this a very long time, so it's far more likely he's right and the wiki's wrong, or that he knows the exact timeline but has adjusted the releases slightly for some reason.