Development Cycle Archive
Thread: New Team Comments Lead Programmer Chris Mayer
Exciting times.... the excitement of finishing up the systems we wish we had launched with (namely player cities and vehicles).
HA!
It hasn't stopped there though. As lead programmer for the live development of Star Wars Galaxies, the best excitement is still yet to come.
HA HA HA
...Our database efficiency has improved tenfold and 3am calls to the programming team have declined from expected to rarely. This doesn't mean the game is perfect; far from it.
HA!
faster servers
HA HA HA
, and a better vendor system
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
), to things we expect you will see and enjoy (like a character transfer system, large scale battles, and our new dungeon system).
Oh ho HA HA HA
I will say though from what I've seen so far, there are plenty of reasons to be excited about it.
HA HA HA Oh please stop, I can't handle anymore! Gonna... bust... a... gut!
The general abuse of the "future tense" in SOE-speak should be outlawed and made into a mortal sin!
I will say though from what I've seen so far, there are plenty of reasons to be excited about it.
Are they greater than:
(14.95 x 6 months)
+ Cost of Space expansion
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number of reasons not to wait for space expansion?
Please keep in mind that why I feel the need to post this is based on the fact that I'm willing to pay it. Don't blow it off as a trolling post, because the less I hear about dates, and features the more reasons I have NOT to continue. There's a gray mist about the calendar of SWG that is more than required and the Devs summoned it about the time that we got "In Concept!"
Well the bar was set pretty low at launch. It wasn't like they could have gone very far in the opposite direction.
KnightHawk420 wrote:
Not trying to sound like a fanboi, but I personally give them more credit for getting better with patches. There is no doubt about it, they have improved it. For the most part publishes are coming out with fewer and fewer huge problems. Less and less changes are going in undocumenteted.
JacenKeldroma wrote:
That was the Sienfeld of all Letters.
Its the message about...Nothing!
He's excited, he fixes bugs, he has nothing to do with the Space Expansion.
Yeah I liked this letter,
We have so many exciting things planned, I am so excited about the excitement we are working on for your excitement level.
If I hear excited one more time from these people I swear I am going to smash something.
We have been hearing about all these exciting things they have planned, but when do we see them? Where are they? Vehicles exciting? Mounts exciting? Jedi exciting?
Still waiting for the excitement, I have more excitement inciting riots on the message boards personally.
Guys, why you have to make down every poor programmer, who was happy to tell a bit about himself and how he is excited about his job?
He does not make the game, just code it.
I am verry happy to see faces and read feelings from the PEOPLE, who are working on this game.
Sure, i rant enough and have problems with the game, but it is not his fault.
There are a lot of things that have been broken for a long time. Those should be fixed first before you add such wonderful things like "wookie armor".
Yet many things still go unfixed.
What would be nice would be a little schedule, saying "Hey, we know about the problem with (insert problem here). It will be fixed by this coming tuesday. We know it's annoying you to no end, and we're doing our best to fix it"
That would be very much appreciated.
