This is a noob question, but how do you think the patch number will work?

New Content / Balancing = New Patch Number?

Just Balancing will add a Hot Fix number? Patch# 1.02 HotFix 1 then Patch# 1.02 HotFix 2, etc?

Is that how MMO work their patch / hot fix numbers?

How does the game version factor into the mix?

Thanks

No clue. If i were to hazard a guess, it would be based on some developer inhouse internal tracking system that takes things like which dept. submitted the patch/fix/etc, when it was submitted as complete, and when it was passed to be implemented.

Or some other criteria we will never know. As from personal experience, business like to keep internal practices firmly to themselves.

I look at RIFT system of numbers and may be WoW's; How standard are those numbering systems? Will ESO do something like that as well?