Cheat detection overzealous?

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Arryn:
I find it utterly incomprehensible how any "tester" can fail to find bugs that slap you in the face within 5 minutes of playing some game for the first time.

That's perfectly understandable. Never heard of the "Law of Big Numbers" (or whatever you call it in English)? Remember there is only a handful of betatesters for Dominions, and AFAIK none of them is paid for the free time he devotes to bugtracking - heck, I even wrote a run-in-the-background backup utility just for that purpose. The simple fact that the 2.09 or 2.10 patches were never released should be enough of a clue that the testers aren't always idling.

Besides, when testing Dominions you're usually trying things like rituals and their effects, or scrutinizing the behavior of your units in the battlefield. You're not interested in competitive play and min-maxing strategies - and that's exactly what alchemy for gold is all about. So no wonder this one made it undetected into the patch.

[ June 24, 2004, 19:13: Message edited by: Nagot Gick Fel ]