WoW, awesome 'bout the cost of 1/2 a tank of gas! geez I dunno if I kin afford that....Perhaps esim will consider producing content for free, Lord knows I would love to work for free!
Letz see the software has been on my PC for 8 years now, so including updates its cost me about $1.57 a month. Really quite a monetary setback. good thing I don't go to starbucks for coffee every morning b4 work, you then might think my last name is Trump.

A patch repairs existing stuff (bugs). An upgrade adds new stuff or significantly improves/replaces existing stuff (the new graphics engine for example). SBP 3.0 adds roughly 50 new platforms to the already existing 100.

However:

The changes in the particle system they planned to implement, caused much greater efforts than they expected, due to the age of the code SBP still bases on, and they cannot complete the task within the scheduled timeframe. They said three days ago that therefore they will prepare it for a later release, polishing up a bit the existing, old system and use that in the now coming upgrade. Word is they plan to release within the next month, at least they said they do not want to work another month over it.

To shorten the wait, you can kill time by staring at this image. :D It is the Bradley in SBP 3.0.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4634/2sch.jpg

They are sneaking in on the objective. Release Notes with 65 pages have been posted:

http://www.esimgames.com/wp-content/...ease_Notes.pdf

Download for SBP 3.0 (not the release notes :D ) will be 2.2 GB :o that is more than twice as much as before, it were 980 MB with the last version.

Release date mentioned is September 2013.

We are getting close to shooting range! :yeah:

SBP version 3.0 license now can be purchased!

Download files will be set up within the next hours.

New license 115 dollar, update license from earlierr version 40$, second license 25$.

At the time of typing this, the figures translate into 85, 29.50 and 18.50 Euros.

1-month license (ideal for testing) is 9.50$. They also offer 4-months and 12-months licenses (24.50$ and 39.50$)

LINK:
http://www.esimgames.com/?page_id=1361

Questions and latest info, advise, here:
http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbforums/...ad.php?t=19608

Files are online since some hours. 4 files. 2.2 GB in total. Torrent also available.

http://www.esimgames.com/?page_id=1390

Thank you Skybird for keep us informed via this thread, it was very much appreciated.

:salute:

@Skybird, would have two questions:

• Can the 2.6 dongle be used for the 3.0 license?
• I've played SP Pro not lastly...are there good new scenarios available, especially for the 3.0 features?

Thanks.

The new codemeter license gets loaded onto the dongle you have. Two points there to watch out for:

First, that part of the deal is in the hands of Wibu, not eSim. Wibu builds and programs the dongle, and is maintaining the licensing stuff.

The licence update needs either Java installed, big shame on Wibus incompetent programmers to depend on this sky-wide security hole, or you need to do it manually, and for this you need their server and customer service which all is offline over weekends v thats why some people are left stranded after buying this weekend. Bad release timing by eSim, I'd say. The manual procedure is tricky since the whole thing has been complicated by using virtual sticks as well, so I strongly recommend to visit their forum which holds a sticky thread about it. My rig has completely broken down currently and so I cannot judge it first hand so far. By what I read the procedure could turn out difficult for some. Get advice first before starting.

Second, the dongle may need firmware update to 1.18 if it is one of the old ones, or 2.02 if it is one of the new ones. Updating the firmware is no problem and goes smoothly via codemeter control software I have done it myself in the past and know this by experience. If the software lists no update beyond 1.18, that is okay then.

Oh, and the scenarios. 2.640 already had plenty on board, and there are several hundreds available in their download section. Its all easy to design your own as well, even quite randomized, complex ones. For 3.0, there currently seems to be not too much around, meaning it makes explicit use of the new features and platforms, but one can take it for granted that old ones will be modernised quickly by the community, plus you can easily do it yourself, too. I see no argument and reason for concern in this regard. The SBP is the best editor I have ever seen - lean, elegant, and extremely powerful. eSim said that in principle all old scenarios will run, maybe with only minor adjustements.

http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbforums/...=8869&page=142

From this page in this thread they have started to post customer-made screenshot. Some of them look awfully good.

A shame that for the next days my rig is grounded. :/\\!!

Skybird,

Thank you very much for the information. It looks very good !!!


Txema

Mei Pleschör !

Thank you very much.