Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: RE: Droid Report: Marching down Gorantoth's list....for official info (04/02/04)
Ashlish wrote:
I find it ironic and not a little bit sad that during a two-patch period where droid engineers were supposed to 'feel some love', they're willing to trot out the "it's too hard and will take up too much time" reply.
The Publish 8 list is already pretty well locked and the issue you quoted is a totally new gameplay request. Two different things entirely.
We don't know how hard it would be to actually make number in droid names 'fly' properly. I'm sure they want to give it to us...and now we know an official ETA to get it (unless it was made a number one issue, I guess). It's getting some official info on a long-standing DE issue that's the good part here. If this is your pet issue, make it your Number 1 on my top 5 poll.
Serious, everyone...please fill out the Top 5 issues thing for where you're at right NOW. Revised, updated, new to you, whatever. I'm already caught up on what's there already and can use more to get an accurate picture of what the DEs are wanting.
Note: Yes...I'll be posting the full results here as I send them in to TH.
It's our chance to get ourselves in the queue on a prioritized basis for the what comes in the later publishes and mini-publishes.
If we want changes, building my top 20 is what's been requested.
Keep an eye on that thread for more info from TH on Gorantoth's list. Don't know when, but I'm gonna press on at the best clip I can on that.
/bow
Respectfully,
Jnath wrote:
exactly, note the text in green.
duncje wrote:
This quote sums up the Dev attitude toward DE:
TH: "With the name filter, thats a different issue. Pets are different than droids and with the way droids work, itsweeks ofwork and I just dont see that happening any time soon..."
If it would take weeks of work to adjust the parameters of a name filter, I can't imagine how bad things must be in the code.
You know, sacrifice the pets for once - we all know that the same filter governs all pets (that's what TH was saying, that seperating those systems would take work) - so why not just let people use numbers and "-" in their silly creature pets too?
Problem solved!
If some roleplayer gets upset that a creature has a number in his name, they can go roleplay whatever they want - I can't properly name a droid, and that takes precedence in this case; a roleplayer has absoulte control over their roleplaying and can choose to see and not see whatever they choose but my customers who aren't in that playstyle cannot name their droids properly any other way.
So just change the filter overall - allow numbers and dashes.
You are right, that quote sums up their attitudes toward DE perfectly - even something as inconsequental to most CH's as the naming filter, yet a VITAL issue to us, gets brushed aside.
If they can't go in and make the global pet filter contain numbers and dashes without weeks and weeks of work...(insert gloom and doom).
AO
Message Edited by AudioOrgana on 04-03-2004 07:48 AM
TheRealTK421 wrote:
Ashlish wrote:
I find it ironic and not a little bit sad that during a two-patch period where droid engineers were supposed to 'feel some love', they're willing to trot out the "it's too hard and will take up too much time" reply.
The Publish 8 list is already pretty well locked and the issue you quoted is a totally new gameplay request. Two different things entirely
TheRealTK421 wrote:
Ashlish wrote:
I find it ironic and not a little bit sad that during a two-patch period where droid engineers were supposed to 'feel some love', they're willing to trot out the "it's too hard and will take up too much time" reply.The Publish 8 list is already pretty well locked and the issue you quoted is a totally new gameplay request. Two different things entirely.
We don't know how hard it would be to actually make number in droid names 'fly' properly. I'm sure they want to give it to us...and now we know an official ETA to get it (unless it was made a number one issue, I guess). It's getting some official info on a long-standing DE issue that's the good part here. If this is your pet issue, make it your Number 1 on my top 5 poll.
Serious, everyone...please fill out the Top 5 issues thing for where you're at right NOW. Revised, updated, new to you, whatever. I'm already caught up on what's there already and can use more to get an accurate picture of what the DEs are wanting.
Note: Yes...I'll be posting the full results here as I send them in to TH.It's our chance to get ourselves in the queue on a prioritized basis for the what comes in the later publishes and mini-publishes.
If we want changes, building my top 20 is what's been requested.
Keep an eye on that thread for more info from TH on Gorantoth's list. Don't know when, but I'm gonna press on at the best clip I can on that.
/bow
Respectfully,
Naming droids differently than pets is in no way, shape or form a new idea. It has been suggested multiple times on this forum. It is number 6 on Drashks Development Issues section of the current Top 5 issues thread. If the devs really pay as much attention to this place as you repeatedly claim they do, this idea is not new to them.
As far as a Top 5 issues thread, it's been done. This is not a new thing. There has been a Top 5 issues/bug thread stickied at the top of this forum for MONTHS. Of those Top 5 issues, one has been addressed. One. Nothing changes by rewriting the list. They will still exist, they'll just be drowned out by new bugs people want squashed. What happens now, you rewrite the list and hand it to the devs and they say, "Wow, great list guys, wish we had a list like this to work off of before the DE pass started. Unfortunately we don't have time to do any of this. Sorry."?
Drashks Top 5 issues thread originated months before the Droid Invasion was announced. Those issues were there before they started the DE pass. Months and months of ideas distilled into a very clean, very concise post detailing what the major issues of DE's are. A very detailed list of all the bugs we've encountered throughout the game. The Droid Invasion is announced. We had the devs "complete attetion" (their words, not mine). Finaly we'd see some action. And there is is, Drashks Top 5 issues thread, detailing all the stuff we'd like fixed, tweaked, or spoken about. And...? What? What became of it? How much of it, after one half of the DE pass has been completed, has been addressed?
TheRealTK421 wrote:
The Publish 8 list is already pretty well locked and the issue you quoted is a totally new gameplay request. Two different things entirely.
TK, this is NOT NOT NOT NOT a new issue. It's been on Gorantoth's list since, what, Beta?
"You have all of our development attention now." - JustG, 2-12-04
THEY HAVEN'T EVEN LOOKED AT THE DAMN BUG LIST....
I pity the next profession that gets all of their development attention.