Registeration to Propilkki 2 World Championship tournament is ongoing. Deadline for registeration is at 31th of January. The tournament will be played during February - March 2010.
More information is available in Propilkki 2 forum: http://www.kalassa.net/keskustelut/propilkki-in-english/propilkki-2-world-championships-2010/
Rules and more detailed information is given shortly after the closing of registeration.
The list of teams joining the tournament is currently: Finland Sweden Norway Latvia Lithuania Estonia Russia Ukraine Poland Belarus
If you want to register your team national team into the tournament, please contact us. Follow the link to the forum, or send us e-mail: propilkki (at) gmail.com
10 years of virtual ice fishing
4.11.2009
Pro Pilkki 1 was published on 5th of November 1999. It means that exactly 10 years has gone since the very first release of Pro Pilkki 1. This really is the milestone worth of celebrating! Because of this remarkable event, we decided to release a PP2 update v0.751. Among with some fixes it re-introduces a lake from past that many of you might remember as one of the Pro pilkki 1 favorite maps. It is Savilahti.
We wish you an enjoyable playing moments and we want to thank all the players from the past 10 years! Team Procyon
Propilkki 2 v. 0.75 released!
15.9.2009
New version of Propilkki has been released! You will find it by pushing "download" button.
New in version 0.75
Network communication reliability improved
Recovery from connection break added
Drilling to bottom added - drill blade becomes dull
Several holes can be drilled without sitting down in between
Four new samplesets added (3 male + 1 female)
Three new lakes: Surrinlampi, Haukilahti and Meri (Sea)
Arrows up/down re-use the previous sent chat-messages (console style)
When the host is full, waiting players are sorted according to waiting time. Also /names –command shows the order of waiting players and their waiting times.
Team-chat command added (/t)
Amount of players allowed on nework game can be set (/players)
Lake description can be viewed when the game is on
Languge can be changed when the game is on
New lures added to network game (randomized lures)
Game host can ranomize new lake and game type with F5
Bugfixes for lures missing occasionally
Fixes and additions to playlog
Fix to false detection of speed cheating
Memory leaks fixed
Several other smaller bugfixes
In addition, some of the lakes are also updated.
Have fun with Propilkki 2!
-Team Procyon
Over 75 000 downloads!
7.8.2009
Propilkki 2 has been downloaded now over 75 000 times
from our servers!
Propilkki 1 ver 1.0 was released about 10 years ago
15.7.2009
The first release of Propilkki 1 ver. 1.0 was at 5th of November 1999. Soon after that, creation of Propilkki 2 was started. Procyon Products is planning some kind of celebration for this 10 years anniversary party.
Beta-tests of version 0.75 will start soon
9.7.2009
Beta-tests of the next Propilkki version will start soon. There are some new features included to the game, like lots of new sounds, possibility to drill to the bottom of the lake, possibility to drill several new holes at once, team-messages, advances in game connection system during disconnections, 2 new lakes (1 more under construction), fixed and clarified game-logs etc etc...
Possible release date is still hard to estimate, but we try to finish this version during early autumn before league(s) and other international competitions will start.
Development of Pp2 v. 0.75 beta has been started
12.3.2009
We have now officially started development of the new Pp2 version. Next release will be smaller update than our previous release. Its most important content will be bug fixes and some new features to the current contents of the game. We hope also to add something new to the sounds and voice samples. There will be major updates to the single player game, but those may not be released in versions 0.75 or 0.8.
Releasing date is still largely unknown. It might be finished at summertime or even at the beginning of autumn. It depends a lot of the scale of updates we decided to add into the game.
Sweden won World Championships of Pp2 2009
18.2.2009
World Championships of Propilkki 2 -2009- have been played now. Sweden took the gold medal again. Latvia fought well and took silver. Finland was 3rd. Final's "lucky loser" Ukraine was 4th.
Congratulations for all players!
Results of the finals:
1) Sweden 46 2) Latvia 40 3) Finland 38 4) Ukraine 36
Latest version of Propilkki (0.7) is downloaded more than 25 000 times
11.2.2009
Our statistics shows, that the latest release of Propilkki 2 (version 0.7) is now downloaded more than 25 000 times. There seems to be nearly linear increase in the number of downloads. We would like to thank all of the players once again.
World Championships of Propilkki 2 starts today!
10.2.2009
World Championships of Propilkki 2 starts today. In the first league will play Finland, Estonia and Ukraine. Tomorrow (Tue) there will be league 2 matches; Norway, Russia and Latvia. At the next week there will be matches of league 3, where last years champion Sweden plays with Belorussia and Lithuania.
Results of the matches and discussion about it could be followed in our forum (English section of Propilkki 2).
World Championship tournament of PP2 is approaching!
20.1.2009
World Championships of PP2 will be played soon! Now we have 9 teams registered into the tournament. The final deadline of signing in into the tournament is 26.1.2009 12:00 A.M. (time of Finland). Teams registered into the tournament currently are: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Time-schedule and "elimination leagues" are determined after the sign in period is over.
Service crashed..
15.1.2009
Again we had very high amount of users at the same time, when pp2 version was finally released. Service crashed almost immediately after news-update, even we dont have pp2-version in our own server at all!
Please be patient. Everyone will have own copy sooner or later.
v0.7 is released
15.1.2009
Installer is now available on our "download" section. Have a great springtime with new Pro Pilkki 2!
Release is near..
15.1.2009
Estimated release time is late tonight. We hope that this time-schedule will be true.
We also want people to ignore all other downloading links, which are not shown in our home page. It is possible, that these "strange" links may contain viruses or something harmful material. Please wait until official release, because it is the only way to have clean and official version of Propilkki 2 v 0.7.
Towards v0.7 release...
14.1.2009
Version 0.7 of ProPilkki 2 is ready. We are now only waiting for the actions from our web admins and mirror site owners. Most propably the release will happen tomorrow, 15.1.2009. Be patient still for a while!
Propilkki downloaded more than 300 000 times!
9.12.2008
Propilkki has now been downloaded from our servers over 300 000 times! Wintertime seems to activate players every year. Thanks for all once again.
Few more screenshots
25.8.2008
Here are some new screenshots of the next version:
1) Powerlines at Jormuanlahti.
2) Some smaller powerlines near roads.
3) And finally new rod, which has stronger line and harder bite indicator.
Development of Pp2 next version is under process
12.8.2008
Because of short and rainy summer in Finland, team Procyon has already started to process next version of Propilkki 2 game. Now we have finished i.e. one more rod and powerline graphics object into the maps. Powerlines will enhance the realism in graphics greatly. New rod will offer to you a stronger line, but its sensitivity with smaller fishes is not so good as in default rod. Stronger line will also drop a little bit interest rate of fishes to bite smaller lures. But who cares, because it will help you to catch some larger lunkers than ever before! There will be also some new species available, which might be lake trout, bleak, blue bream and vendace. Lakes will also contain a thing called "anti-hotspot", which is used to spread shoals to a larger regions than now. This will help clump-effect in places like Jormuanlahti (between spar buoys) and Niemisjärvi (the edge of deep in lower lake). We hope, that this effect will improve the realism sharing good fishing areas to a longer range. Player might need to search good fishing places from larger area, but in multiplayer game this will give possibilities for more players than now. Furthermore, if this function drops levels of catches, then we need to restock more fishes into the lakes.
Lake creation has not been started yet, because first we need to update our lake editor to support all of these improvements listed above. Editor will support also depth function, which will show fishing depth to you while playing the game. This depth bar might be available in 0.7 version, but this is still uncertain. This depth bar will also contain a function that enforces the lure to come up from the hole in the ice. It is needed, when you have a big fish biting and time is running out. Probability to catch that fish is very low when this function used, but at least you have a possibility to leave the hole in time and manage to hurry to the weighting zone. Fishing from different depths (surface, middle) will be available in later versions, but support for it is under construction.
Have a nice autumn!
- Team Procyon
Propilkki 2 v. 0.6 has been released!
28.4.2008
It is finally released!! You can find by clicking "download" button.
Thanks for all of you players! Have fun!
Release of the game is getting closer!
28.4.2008
The game will be released very soon. If our admin manages to connect internet during this night, then the game will be out tonight. If not, then there will be delay for tomorrow (Tuesday.. at least).
Please note, that if some other site (which is not mentioned in our homepage) is sharing Propilkki 2 v. 0.6 beta, it might be fake and contain anything (incl. viruses). So PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE GAME ONLY FROM OUR HOMEPAGE, SUPPORTING FORUMS OR OUR OFFICIAL MIRRORS.
Beta-testings nearly finished!
21.4.2008
Beta-team has nearly finished this test-period. We are currently working with the last version before releasing (0.59). This version should be the same than 0.6. Only some clear new bugs are going to be fixed (if they even exists).
Beta-testings of v.0.6 will start soon!
6.4.2008
We have nearly completed next version of Propilkki 2 (v.0.6 beta). We will start intensive beta-testings soon. After this period, we do some bug-fixing and normal short test-episode also. Then this 0.6 is finally ready for releasing. Approximated release date is during April!
Propilkki 2 beta v.0.6 latest news
14.3.2008
Here is short listing about updates, what we have done. Lots of work still needs to be done before releasing.
1) Playing in windowed mode 2) Post-join-feature 3) 4 new lakes (Hossalaislammet, Kivijoki, Haapolahti, Siikavalkeinen) 4) Speed cheat detection and info and possibly auto-ban 5) Text Copy-paste (ip for example) 6) Some new graphical objects 7) Widening of reserved area of a hole and player 8) Lots of minor bugfixes (i.e. some 3D device halted -errors are now fixed)
We have also promised to create i.e. slippery (no snow) ice -effect, new colours for players, some improvements into info-screens, team-cups etc.. We have to give up some of these, because time schedule is too tight. Possibly i.e. new rod, more species, more voices etc will be available in later versions.
We look forward to release next version before end of April. It is our plan, but it will not be absolute deadline. Beta-testing and bug fixing might take more time than expected. We will do our best!
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We have also opened an account for voluntary donations. More information is available in Finnish, but we will give more information in English in the near future.
Server works again & counter shows over 200 000 downloads!
29.2.2008
Now it seems that problems are solved. Normal downloading seems to work.
Counter shows now "201 511" downloads.
Some problems in downloading
29.2.2008
There are some problems in downloading. We are resolving problem now.
Sweden won international tournament
20.2.2008
The first international Propilkki 2 tournament is now played. Final results are:
1) Sweden 67 2) Finland 35 3) Russia 34 4) Latvia 27
Sweden won easily this time. Congratulations to the winners!
League 2: Russia and Sweden to the finals!
14.2.2008
League 2 was played today. Russia won and Sweden became 2nd. Norway and Poland are out of the finals. We'll see next week, what team is champion of Propilkki 2 -2008- !
Teams in finals:
Finland Sweden Russia Latvia
League 1 finished, Latvia and Finland to the finals!
13.2.2008
We just finished league 1. Latvians won it easily, and Finland were second. Estonian collapsed at Jormua -match and therefore they are out of finals. Ukraine were 4th this time. Sorry, that their captain had connection problems.
You can find more results from our forum/community.
International tournament of Propilkki 2 starts today!
13.2.2008
Today we will play first league in international championships tournament of Propilkki 2. At wednesday, there will be Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine playing. At thursday, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Poland.
Two best teams of each league goes to the finals.
We will inform you about results in specific thread in our forum.
Good luck for all teams!
Propilkki 1 players asked us to do
24.1.2008
Here some new pictures about next versions lakes.
Many of players have told us, that they want to have "good old lakes" from Propilkki 1. Here are few of them, can you recognize them all?
1) Bridge is missing, but scenery might be still familiar?
2) Flow has taken away the old fallen trunk of pine tree.
3) Big house with some cold buildings. This map has been stared time after time in Propilkki 1.
All these "maps" are now included into one new lake, which is quite long river. Running from the northern start point to southern border takes about 12 minutes.
Towards the next version..
23.1.2008
Some facts about the version under work now:
Running the game in window is already under testing, first feelings indicate that it is quite a handy feature. Only problem is that losing your focus to chat, irc or browsing causes easily missed fish and weaker results! Windowed mode will at least reduce alt-tab crashes. Also ctrl-c and ctrl-v are working, so IP-address will be easier to copy-paste into the game. There is a good chance that the next version will start to work with some of the state-of-the-art display adapters which failed to run the game so far.
Updates and improvements have been done to lake editor as well, but that helps only us..
Happy new year!
1.1.2008
ProPilkki -team sends best wishes to the whole community for the year 2008!
- Team Procyon -
Download sever down
1.1.2008
Our download server is down. P2 v0.55 full installer is now available only on all-fishing.ru-mirror. Installer is .rar compressed. Thanks for the all-fishing.ru -team!
If you already have version v0.5 installed, you can upgrade it with this installer (~1M). Updating is recommended especially for those, who are hosting network games.
Let's try to play some international games! I just started a new thread into our forum. If someone is going to start international hosting, he will just write there his IP-address and time-schedule of hosting. After hosting is over, he will remove IP-address away from there. So, if you are interested to play, just check this thread. If there is someone hosting a game, you are welcome to join it. I know, that it is a little bit hard to register to our finnish forum, but if you want to host a game and have players from other countries into it, please try it!
When you are joining into a game, please use "tag" after your nick, i.e. myname (NOR). Please use shorter nicks than usual, because of these tags.
This IP-thread is here: http://www.kalassa.net/keskustelut/index.php?topic=17291.0
Mirror is available
23.11.2007
If our server did not respond, please try mirror. It is available now here:
Thanks for the all-fishing.ru -forum and its admin and owner Mr. Alexandr Lipatov.
Server is busy
23.11.2007
Please be patient! Server is busy. If the game did not start downloading, try again after 1h or tomorror. Now there is a total jam.
Propilkki 2 v. 0.5 beta RELEASED!
22.11.2007
Now it is released! Enjoy!
Please be patient with our server, last time it went down because of huge amount of downloads.
If you want to host game in net-game, allow port 4500 traffic of your firewall. In some cases, you also need to modify your modem settings. You have to direct traffic to correct IP-address. Some tutorials will be available in the future.
Most of the bugs are now fixed
21.11.2007
Most of the bugs found in beta-tests are now fixed. Only alt-tab crashing -bug is not solved yet. It seems quite certain, that release date is during November.
Testing of 0.5 beta
13.11.2007
We are currently testing version 0.5. Everything has gone better than we thought before tests. Only some bugs have occurred, so it is quite certain that we can release the game soon. I hope that the release will be during November.
There will be 4 new lakes added into the game!
Testing of 0.5 beta, first web-games are now performed
30.10.2007
Yes, we have now tested the web-game. It worked! Some more testing and few features more, and then the version is ready for releasing. Time-estimate is about 1-2 months.
Playing with REAL players was LOTS OF FUN! I am sure, that you will like that version!
Latest news update (Propilkki 2 v. 0.5 beta)
26.9.2007
We are currently working with a new version of Propilkki 2 (beta 0.5). This version will contain a network game possibility. It is normal LAN-game, but it also allows to play the game over the internet. If the game is played over the web, it will need one player to act as a host, because we don't have a game-server (yet). So, the host starts the game and others can join to it if they know the IP-address of the host.
The version is not ready or even playable yet, but data transfer between computers works well. We are not sure to tell any release dates yet, but late autumn/early winter might be a good guess.
We are not going to release 0.41 bug-patch, and therefore it is added into 0.5 version. 0.41 patch would have contained some fixes to fish eating behaviour and new "training" menu.
We wish nice autumn for all Propilkki 2 players! -Procyon Products
Warning! Fake propilkki2
26.9.2007
I used google to find new propilkki2 associated web-pages today and found that there are fake files spreading in torrent pages. There is not such thing available as "Propilkki 2 full version" ! The latest release is beta 0.4 and it is totally freeware. So there is no need for things called "keygen" and "crack-file", because our game is free for download and usage.
DON'T download these fake-torrents from torrent-pages, because you might get viruses and illegal stuff instead of Propilkki 2 game. Latest news and updates of Propilkki 2 you will find here in our web-page!
Downloading is "normal" now
3.4.2007
Propilkki 2 is now easier to download. There were heavy traffic during tuesday, nearly 5000 downloads were counted in the statistics.
Server slowed down
3.4.2007
Our server have been slowed down by huge amount of downloads. The game file is temporary out of the server, but we will put it back as soon as possible.
Please be patient!
Propilkki 2 v. 0.4 beta is RELEASED
3.4.2007
Good news everyone! New version of Propilkki 2 is now released!
New version contains for expample: 2 new lakes, 4 new species, 20 new lures, cup-game with 3 different difficulty levels, different type of games (at medium and hard level) etc etc..
Have fun!
v0.4 now under testing
24.3.2007
Version 0.4 was delivered to our internal beta-testing group couple of days ago. Test period will end 29th of March. According to the reports from beta-group, necessary fixes are made and then it's finally time for 0.4 web-release. Exact release date still depends on the test results.
News about "short cup" -mode of the game
9.3.2007
Short cup -mode is now nearly finished. It is big step forward in releasing of next version (0.4 beta). Before releasing it, there is need to do some improvements with start areas and add few new species into the lakes. Please be patient few more weeks, because this next release is going to be much more addicting than previously published ones.
Version 0.4 beta -report
4.2.2007
About 60-70% of new "Cup-game" (tournament mode) is now completed. There is also one new lake done for the next release. Another one has not been started yet.
Estimated release date for the next beta version is somewhere between middle of the March to the end of the April.
