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Old February 14th, 2007, 02:35 PM

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It's a tragedy none of the moderators are fans enough of Dominions_3 to clean the bug thread.

That's not a tragedy. A tragedy is when I have nothing better to do on Valentine's day than post on the romantic Dominions 3 forum.
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Old February 14th, 2007, 02:42 PM
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I noticed the bug thread was a terrible mess, even Kristoffer said the bug thread is no longer useful in its current state.
Yea I saw that post by Kristoffer so I don't even bother posting any of the numerous bugs I've found. Someone should really lock that thread, because people are investing effort in something that the Devs really don't care about.
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Old February 14th, 2007, 02:46 PM

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It's not that they don't care about the bugs we find, it's just that the current form of listing them is unusable to them.
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Old February 14th, 2007, 03:04 PM
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If you check the views on the bug thread you will see that every bug reported gets viewed many times. Its true that the bug thread became something different than the devs wanted but it definetly still serves its purpose.
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Old February 14th, 2007, 03:25 PM
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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
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Old February 14th, 2007, 03:28 PM
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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.
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Old February 14th, 2007, 03:37 PM
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It's not that they don't care about the bugs we find, it's just that the current form of listing them is unusable to them.
I was refering to the fact that they don't really care about the bug forum - not that they don't care about bugs. Telling people that posting bugs up to the bug thread is still helpful is misleading and wasting people's time when the devs said themselves the thread isn't helpful.
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If you check the views on the bug thread you will see that every bug reported gets viewed many times. Its true that the bug thread became something different than the devs wanted but it definetly still serves its purpose.
I fail to see how "Lots of views" = "Serves it's purpose". I thought the thread's purpose was to get bugs fixed?

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If I were to create a proper bug management and bug reporting site do you guys think it would be used?

I have a bug tracker written in php5 that I did for a company a while back that could be extended for this purpose. I also have some empty space at a web host that I could use for the site if the community would find it useful.
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Old February 14th, 2007, 04:16 PM
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I think it would be a good idea, because there is a rather desperate need for a cleaned up list of bugs just so we can see what issues are already reported and which ones are not and to get a good picture of what we can expect to be addressed quickly and which ones we are likely going to have to wait for.

Being able to see outstanding issues in a short form, much like the Dom3 progress page, would be great. So if you feel up to the task, go for it.

There are people like me around who are bound to find a crapload of minor issues during the course of documenting the game. The weapons list alone produced a score of minor issues, the unit list issues are going to easily number over a hundred, most of which will be minor and some of which are very annoying.

I'll be happy to report things I find, but I've my hands full with the documentation so I'm not taking bug list maintenance up on my own. I'm more than willing to keep track of typo reports, which is why I created the thread for them and which somebody even bumped to the top page recently.

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