EVE General Discussion

Your in for a short wait my fellow capsuleer :

Every online multiplayer game has patches, thing is when an update is released they don't do numerous small patches for the main update. They have the update which works first time.

Most games I play right now have maybe 3 updates and then no more.

Yes these are not mmorpgs but still a game non the less.

Im no developer but what has a few hundred on sisi Vs thousands on TQ got to do with quality of final update? The code is the exact same isn't it? It's simply a case of much more load on the server.

Don't get me wrong this is a beautiful game and I love it :) But I do think that CCP even for its trying lacks quality control.

I am still waiting...

My “in-place string reversal through pointer juggling” command line program has never needed any patching. Does that count?
Yes, and that's a bad thing.
Lolno. They just choose to accumulate all the new bugfixes into the next large patch rather than fix them ASAP.
Sad, isn't it? You'd think companies would be more interested in actually fixing their software before going after the next new shiny thing.

Which F1 team did you work for if I may ask?

Surely F1 teams run pretty much perfect software? I mean yes we see that Mark Webbers KERS fail ALOT more than Vettels [planned much?] but I think this past season that's the only issue on the cars. Very few if any failed engines at all.

I think I'm being ganged upon a little bit with people not seeing what my point is at all.

For myself the game runs fine, Scanning is a bit dodgy or was.....not scanned in a small time.

With that said I'm allowed opinions and I feel that CCP are trying too much at once with the workforce they have. Yes we have only had 2 months since the promise of a turn around but there are still failings.

Example :

The Xmas gift, some people cannot get it and have to petition to get hold of it. A gift is meant as a thank you from CCP to us in my opinion anyway. It should not be restrained to a certain time limit for redeeming.

If there was no time limit, there would be less petitions in the queue less workload on CCP and less work got devs/gms to answer forum topics about it.

I love the fact these small patches are continually fixing small problems without the long wait until big patch day. With that said these small problems shouldn't be there in the first place. A list should be setout with whats in the next big patch and the list should be finished then tested and re tested until it is deemed nearly or perfectly bug free.

If thats so wrong then shoot me.

Oh we see your point, we just mostly agree its stupid and largely irrelevant.

The christmas gift thing has nothing to do with the code, its simply allowing people who for whatever reason didnt log in during the time it was available from the redeem items page to still claim their gifts. Since the gift was supposed to be for Sristmas anyway i think theyve been very kind in allowing people to claim it outside of that time period.

As for what you call the 'small problems' issue do you have any background in programming or quality assurance for computer games?? Because if you dont then you have no business trying to tell a company full of hundreds of people who do how to do their jobs.