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Oct 15th Patch

Started by SinCitySinner [2116762] on in General Discussion.

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ChillySpunc [1905415]
Another week to test something that will still be broken anyway

Just release shit, quite clearly the community are better at finding bugs than the committee and devs are.
Chedburn [1] Admin Developer
I dunno, I think 20-30 fixes / updates is more than expected considering I was on vacation while half of the team worked on rebuilding areas for a security update, and the other half is finishing off CT.

I have no idea why expectations were suddenly so high.
ChillySpunc [1905415]
Might have something to do with the year coming to an end and all you have to show for a year of development is a handful of changes and nothing that was promised?

Nice to know half of the development team is focused on the shitty Xmas map creator. Must take a special kind of dumb to believe you when you tell us that you can't have multiple people working on crimes but you have half the dev team working on a map creator.

Also, you wouldn't need to do 20-30 bug fixes if you had a competent dev team.
animelive [1564720]
Look Chad, does RESPO ring a bell?

Torn community now expects a series of books on what the original plans for the project was and what went wrong. Please get Sugarvalves to work on it.
MagicDust [1643018]
I know for a fact if he didn't rip out the old warring system for this . We wouldn't mind waiting 10 years for updates. Nobody likes these 1million long chains.. People have families, pets , jobs. This is a game . What's so God damn fun about watching a chain for 3 years..
Proxima [1879587] Wiki Editor
A little worried that you consider these expectations high. Bookies for example - it’s been what 5 or 6 weeks since you said 2+2 weeks until the release. Presumably you were aware of upcoming vacations and necessary security updates.
Sky [380980] Committee Committee
Changed Slots chance of jackpot to increase with higher bets, I.e. x2 for $100, up to x64 for $10,000,000

Dangerous update for peoples finances! eek
_Keffi_ [2318658]
Nice to see that a pro Softwaredeveloper like you ChillySpunc care to share your wisdome with us.

Quote: "Also, you wouldn't need to do 20-30 bug fixes if you had a competent dev team."

Everyone who did ever any coding beyond "Hello World" knows that complex Software is rarely bug Free. Even after Years of Development.

Nearly EVERY game is launched with a Day-0 patch, Operating Systems are patched on a regular base whenever buggs are discovered.

i don't like everything that happens game or staff wise, but i would never assume they are incompetent when it comes to coding.

Keffi
SinCitySinner [2116762]
a 3 week gap between Patches and the following Promised Items to be released in the near-future, hopefully you can see why people might expect one or more of them to have been released with the Patch...

- Custom CT map generator (October release was mentioned)
- changes to Mugging mechanics, along with a free merit reset
- changes to Companies (mentioned in Summer newsletter over 3 months ago)
- Dark Mode (mentioned in Summer newsletter over 3 months ago)
- New Bookie system


I'm sure there are other Items that have been promised or hinted at, those are just from the top of my head
ChillySpunc [1905415]
I love how every time I make a comment I get a response implying that I know nothing about coding. Well, just to make you aware, I studied web design and computer science, I am no master but I at least have an idea of how things work and what is required.

Of course bugs are to be expected, of course if things are being rebuilt from scratch there will need to be changes, however when you are actively fixing bugs and not releasing features there is no excuse for a multiplication of bugs.
BossHogg [1986248]
What's this then?
Changed 'Watchlist' flight delay company special to increase the user's personal & faction stats for travel time
Stewie [1494547]
No, it's just simply that before the patch, if your flight was delayed from the company special being used on you, the additional time wasn't added to your 'Time spent traveling' or faction stats.

Now it will.