Devs somewhere?

Manuk · #1 February 14th, 2007, 03:25 PM

we are already at 3.06 wich means that the game was patched enough and devs are actually working.
But lots of bugs seem ignored from the start, maybe because they are tough to get rid of or judged of second priority.
So far im glad darkvision is fixed, miasma dominion, and we got Lanka nation and some new spells. You can say that there�s a lot changed since 3.00

Meglobob · #2 February 14th, 2007, 03:28 PM

Yea, the devs have done a fair amount of work since the game has come out, we are already on 3.06. Also they already have our $$$ so do not need to do it. We have even had a new nation and I believe more will follow.

Beorne · #3 February 15th, 2007, 05:14 AM

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Yea, the devs have done a fair amount of work since the game has come out, we are already on 3.06. Also they already have our $$$ so do not need to do it. We have even had a new nation and I believe more will follow.

Lot of people with a second work make lots of effort recovering bugs and making improvement to big projects without my $$$ (Wesnoth, and hundred others). The fact IW has my $$$ make me think they should put more effort, not less.
Another thing is that 90% of the bugs are so small (but there are so many) that could me corrected only putting hands on data files. An example are the lots of little discrepancies in the descriptions, the bugs in the data files found by Edi, and so on. And if the devs think a trident is one handed and not two, it is not a problem, a line in the forum would delete the bug.
And do not tell me "then do it yourself by modding", I don't have time nor, more importantly, your $$$. And modding should be used to add contenent, or eventually, to resolve some banlancing issues not shared by the devs, but not to correct bugs.
Finally hearing that people find bugs and does not report them because K.O. does not look the thread anymore ... well, makes me sad.

PhilD · #4 February 15th, 2007, 06:37 AM

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Beorne said:
Lot of people with a second work make lots of effort recovering bugs and making improvement to big projects without my $$$ (Wesnoth, and hundred others). The fact IW has my $$$ make me think they should put more effort, not less.
Another thing is that 90% of the bugs are so small (but there are so many) that could me corrected only putting hands on data files.

Wesnoth uses the open software model, which is a perfectly valid choice - and yes, it does make it possible for many people to help correct "small bugs".

IW chose not to go this way (another perfectly valid choice), and as a result, they don't benefit from the direct help of players in squashing bugs.

Beorne · #5 February 15th, 2007, 06:56 AM

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IW chose not to go this way (another perfectly valid choice), and as a result, they don't benefit from the direct help of players in squashing bugs.

Ok, but considering they have it for free, it seems a waste.

PhilD · #6 February 15th, 2007, 10:39 AM

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Ok, but considering they have it for free, it seems a waste.

To really get it for free (that is, with no or little extra work for coordination), they'd need to release the source and file format, at least to volunteers. Not exactly something developers of commercial software do easily.

Beorne · #7 February 15th, 2007, 10:49 AM

So for you a ordered and clean bug thread is a waste of time? Is testing worthless?