Issue 22, a week later.
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Those are catalysts.
Just so I'm clear, since I haven't seen all of the posts on this particular issue, the Enhancement Converters which have been dropping for the past week (got at least 3 on one toon so far) shouldn't/can't be applied to ATIOs until that patch? I've been waiting until I had enough to convert an entire set, so this isn't a big deal for me (although I can see it being a problem for other people).
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The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
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Bug-free update won't happen even if they spend 10 years on it. Anyone with any experience with ANY MMOs ( or games in general ) should know that by now.
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That happens when you have random users as beta testers; if you have software with a known range of functions, you can set up a testing protocol to exercise them all. I've participated in several of them testing new versions of the medical information system the DoD uses for military hospitals.
I develop software. You can test things in Beta for weeks and months, but the environment is just different in Beta than in Live (far fewer users, and since they know they're just 'testing' , they don't often attempt 'everything' possible to see if it breaks; Beta testing is kind of monotonous that way).
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However, the programmers are often the last people you want doing testing; because they know how it's supposed to work, they don't do the stupid things. I know that I still miss things, and I've been doing software development for more than thirty years. Just today, I had to go back and fix two function calls in a routine that I had sent to NH Lemoore to install; I'd moved all the needed functions into the routine itself so it could be standalone, but neglected to change the function calls so that they referenced the local functions, not the ones in the utility routine.
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
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