Development Cycle Archive

look, the sith came and jumped me the day after the old man came to me, i killed them both, one of them i looted notthing the next one disapeared as soon as i killed him, i had the waypoint datapad in my inventory, my crystal said i did the mission....I go to use the datapad and it said "you must loot this object before you can extract information from it"

aka im **edit**ed, i worked hard to get where i am, and be on of the first people on corbantis in the villiage, and now, i cant do anything, untill you the devs fix it for me...

so guys please just get the datapad working....its a bug and should be looked into

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Thorolfsk wrote:

Are you guys also aware of the massive spawn of npc in eisley. Happening on every server.

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Oh it's not just Eisely. It was like all of Tatooine yesterday morning on Scylla.

I came across a spawn of 24 Jawas, and all attacking at once with their little quadruple-shot guns - ouch.

My Equipmentvendorshad the first and third slotson the Equipment listing on the Planetary Map for Radiant/Naboo.

Last night they were gone. Unregistering and re-registering didn't help. Neither did disconnecting and reconnecting.

And now I see that there are numerous other issues that should have been caught in either internal QA testing or Test Center testing.

So was everyone too busy playing Jedi to do proper testing of all the other changes? And why did these other changes generate these bugs in the first place?

I've been a patient defender of the developers for the most part because I've been a programmer and managed programmers. I know how hard it is tomake changes to complex software on an aggressive schedule, and I appreciate that there are a lot of changes made for Publish 10 that haven't had problems.

But that professionalexperience also means I have a reasonably good idea of how NOT to manage software development. Whilethe development process for SWGseemed to have beenimproving, this latest batch of bugs is inexcusable. There is no way these things should have been missed in testing, or not corrected if they were found in testing (as apparently some of them were).

For shame, SOE. Please take this as yet another opportunity to implement a fully professional software development process in which someone in a position of responsibility has the courage to say, "No, we will not release these changes until properpeer reviews have been performed and the changes have passed rigorous and completetesting"... and means it.

/disgust

--Flatfingers

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Thunderheart wrote:

Drop shadows not showing - Under investigation

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Ubese ARMOR Shirts and Ubese ARMOR Bandoliers are now classified as CLOTHING and have CONDITION. They only accept Clothing Attachments now. Revert your changes to these two items. There's nothing game-breaking about having a couple pieces of armor that don't decay. It's not going to put armorsmiths out of business (Unlike tailors who need the decay) when people buy 1 ubese shirt and never have to replace it, trust me, I know, we sell plenty of Biceps, bracers, chests, helms, boots, gloves and leggings to keep ourselves busy.

Also, I went up to the vette yesterday and found I couldn't heal myself. It was a short trip and involved a lot of cloning. I'd like 10% decay back on everything I was carrying, thanks.