Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

If you had read what I posted, you would see that "if you like bugs" refers to opting in to the beta testing. It is not a snide comment, it is a compliment: unless you opt-in to the beta, you don't see many bugs. Get it?

I apologise for misunderstanding your phrasing: it came across (to me) as a statement that people joining the Early Access are being used for Beta Testing - generally, (in my experience anyway) the two things are different steps in the maturity of a product, so the implication (or possibly just my inference) was that Valheim is less "ready" than it actually is and was buggy - which sounded like trolling. Again, sorry for misunderstanding.

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

As to whether decimal version numbers are meant to provide an estimate of how far the devs think they are to 1.0, of course they are used that way.* But since it is an estimate it may happen that we get to version 0.6 something and suddenly jump to 1.0. Or not.

With version numbers that are 0.203.11 and 0.204.4 I would guess that the 203/204 are some form of "iteration" number, and the 11/4 are some form of "test build" or "release candidate" number for that iteration.

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

No, I am not going to ransack the internet for a specific example of something that went to 0.9.9.9 before rolling over to 1.0 in order to prove that I am not a troll. I think it is obvious who is trolling here.

Well, I was most certainly not trolling. Wrong, yes. Trolling, no.

FWIW, the closest well-known (sort of) '%age complete" attempt was probably the Linux Kernel pre-1.0, but that was a demonstration of just why nobody should ever do it. It took 2 months to go from 0.01 to 0.10, 4 months to jump directly from 0.10 to 0.95, 9 months to get from 0.95 to 0.99, and 14 months to get from 0.99 to 1.0. A good demonstration of the "the last 10% takes 90% of the time". But also "good things are worth waiting for".