Tyger42

Sorry, little distracted lately. More important things on my mind, but I do have to keep myself diverted.

The core of the point he was making is the same whether it's "people who know the system" or not: Just "throwing more at it" won't fix the problem. Sometimes the best way is to let one guy chop away at it at his own pace. Sometimes the best thing is even to set it aside for a few days/weeks then come back at it with a fresh perspective. Coding isn't as simple a matter as you seem to think it is. Being unable to find/fix the cause of a bug doesn't mean that there aren't enough people putting enough time in it or that those people don't know what they're doing. The cause of a bug in even the cleanest code can often be VERY obscure and turn up in totally surprising places that seem completely unrelated.

Where did his post imply not doing so?

(edit) Nevermind. I'm in an exceptionally testy mood at the moment. Worry over an RL issue. Won't go into detail, not the place for it here.

Well, after a certain point, the only way to allocate more man-hours is to put more people on it. I'm sure there are people on each category's team that are supposed to focus mainly on bugs. Just as there are different teams for different areas of the game ( Graphics, content, etc ), there are almost certainly people within that team for different jobs within that area.

Wha?

Except that wasn't what he said. He said that he'd read you get a rename token, then asked if he'd have to spend money on a rename... He wasn't really clear...

Yup. Typing fast is all you need to be a pro hacker. Didn't you know that?

Absolutely not. Putting more people on the problem doesn't necessarily make it easier/faster to solve. The old saying about too many cooks and spoiled broth applies...

Yes, but you're arguing that you didn't use the exact words. That is semantics. Your post did heavily imply "all" even if the exact wording was never used.

What on earth did you think the rename token was for? If it meant that much to you, you should have made a throw-away character on the server to check if the name was available.

Well, again, it helps nearly any build, true. But it absolutely isn't necessary unless you're completely min/maxing your build.

Hasten is far from necessary, even without Energy Aura or any such powers. In short, absolutely, you'll be okay. Energy Aura's recharge bonus isn't close to Hasten, of course, but you're fine without it. Hasten helps, but it's skippable.

Walk up to a group of random people in New York City who are engrossed in a conversation and just jump in with "hi, how are you doing?" and see what happens. I guarantee you that more often than not your response will be absolutely nothing. When you do get a response, most often it'll be a glare, a look like you're crazy, or some such. Every now and then, you'll get a friendly response, but not often. You might have a better chance at positive results if, say, they're talking about politics and you open with something that actually contributes to the conversation. On the other hand, you may get a "Who the *&(^ asked you?!?".

Point is, being ignored or a hostile response isn't in the least an "unrealistic" IC response. It doesn't necessarily mean the RPers are being exclusive of others. It might, but that's not automatically the reason.

New content still needs to come out, though. As I said before, that goes MUCH farther toward player retention and attracting new players than fixing the minor bugs that tend to get left to stew for a long time. As for the major bugs, they may not get fixed as quickly as some would like, but that doesn't mean they're being ignored. Sometimes simply pinning down what int he code is causing the problem in the first place, much less how to fix it ( Especially without breaking something else in the process ), can take months...

And you know damn well right now that all you're doing is arguing semantics.... No, you didn't use those exact words. That doesn't give you an easy out of what your words meant.

Don't think he was saying that at all. Nor do I think it is even a remotely intelligent idea for a good number of reasons. Not the least of which being the simple fact that it's impossible to fix all the bugs. Period. In any software more complex than those Basic programs we did in elementary school that fill the screen with infinitely repeating words.

Is there some language barrier here preventing you from grasping the meaning of the word "MOST"? ( By the way, funny how both of those were bugs centering on new content, which you had criticized them for focusing on.... )


Simple fact is that more players quit a game over lack of new content than over non game-breaking bugs... In general, players will put up with a lot of buggy annoyances. But, if the content is allowed to get stale, they'll leave in droves.

Well, really, it depends on the manner and topic of the conversation. Since none of that was provided, we can't really give a fair judgment of the situation. Discussing general news events of the day? Maybe there's an in there without being rude. Discussing what their best friend did at the D the other night? Randomly jumping in with your own D story uninvited might very well be rude...

Nevermind that bug fixes go into every single damn patch out there. Let's just throw out hyperbole in massive quantities!

Nearly all the bugs currently rate barely in the "annoyance" category at worst. In terms of marketing in ANY MMO, new content >>>>>>> fixing minor bugs. Like it or not, right or wrong, that's the way things go.

...as opposed to them being rude by butting into someone else's conversation at random?

Well, considering the launcher notifies you when there's a patch AND has a link on it that says, cryptically enough, "Patch Notes", I'd say ignorance of their existence would be the user's own fault...

I don't get why so many people don't read the patch notes then act like its the devs' fault when they don't know about a change like this... Everyone should -always- at least skim patch notes every patch. If nothing else, so they're not caught unawares by such changes.

I dunno, the Power Rangers had a pretty generic Japanese hero look...

No, the difference between "non-native speaker" errors and "just plain lazy/ignorant" errors are pretty obvious. Could be a combination of the two, but the presence of the latter is plain as day. As far as "technical knowledge" goes, not really. Sounds to me more like he copied over details from a spec sheet and regurgitated some pretty easy to find info. He left out some basic info like, say, the type of video card and driver versions, instead only specifying the amount of memory it had.

Absolutely. Blue centurion taken? Try:

Blu secoli ( Italian )
Puteulanus centurion ( Latin )
blau Jahrhunderte ( German )
azul centurion ( Spanish )
blåfarge århundre ( Norwegian )

Etc, etc. Of course, you'll have to change the "special characters" to standard english characters. So that last one would be blafarge arhundre. Anyway, fire up a translator online and run the name through to see what comes out. Even combine languages. Blue Jahrhunderte, for example.