Musician Archive
Thread: NewJedi: Who is our dev?
I don't think we have a Dev. I really don't - nor have I ever seen a Dev post regarding anything our profession. And, when we get a response in 19 questions, it's ridiculously misunderstood, to the point of being insulting.
Therefore, I am hereby declaring myself Dev of Musicians. Send all hate mail to me. Fear my indifference to your need of a buffing interface! Tremble at my failure to understand your profession's needs! Quiver and quake at the stone cold indifference to your desire for content!
All shall hail me, Warryyr, Musician Dev pro tempore.
Mind you, I have absolutely no experience or knowledge in developing the Musician profession, but that shouldn't be too much of a change in things, now will it. I can ignore your requests for stuff, just as well as anyone! Only difference is, I'll actually BE on the forums!
Icall onany so-called "real" Musician Dev to challenge my authority! Bring it on! I defy you, Musician Dev, to show yourself and take back your throne! You are inexcusably AWOL, and have been for far too long! Your authority is hereby revoked! Mwa-hahaha.
(more maniacal laughter)
Hail to the King, baby!
Warryyr
Hmm, I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about this.For a long time -- last fall and winter -- we didhave a clearly designated "dev." He was very responsive to my inquiries, and he seemed open to various suggestions (e.g., some role for crafting experimentation, making effects have a gameplay value, improving the buff interface, adding new songs). We met up on TC and tested stuff and socialized a bit.He really did take into account my comments when we were testing the new buff on Test Center. He was also great about fixing some bugs pretty fast.I was particularlyimpressed when I reported on several players who couldn't play music at all; he fixed the bug within 2 or 3 days of my report. That was one of the most rewarding days I've had as Correspondent, the day he fixed that bug.
But my understanding is that responsibilities and workload shifted around, especially when some of the devs moved over the Jump to Lightspeed. The bottom line is that for the past several months, I have dealtmostlywith Thunderheart. TH works very hard and does a good job, and he responds to my questions very fast with what info he has, which often isn't much.At the end of the day he's not the guy actually crunching the code (or supervising the code-crunchers). I wish he'd post more here in this forum, but I will say that he is very good about answering my questions in the Correspondent Forum. The trouble is, he often doesn't have much news to impart, which isn't his fault.
NewJedi wrote:
Hmm, I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about this.For a long time -- last fall and winter -- we didhave a clearly designated "dev." He was very responsive to my inquiries, and he seemed open to various suggestions (e.g., some role for crafting experimentation, making effects have a gameplay value, improving the buff interface, adding new songs). We met up on TC and tested stuff and socialized a bit.He really did take into account my comments when we were testing the new buff on Test Center. He was also great about fixing some bugs pretty fast.I was particularlyimpressed when I reported on several players who couldn't play music at all; he fixed the bug within 2 or 3 days of my report. That was one of the most rewarding days I've had as Correspondent, the day he fixed that bug.
But my understanding is that responsibilities and workload shifted around, especially when some of the devs moved over the Jump to Lightspeed. The bottom line is that for the past several months, I have dealtmostlywith Thunderheart. TH works very hard and does a good job, and he responds to my questions very fast with what info he has, which often isn't much.At the end of the day he's not the guy actually crunching the code (or supervising the code-crunchers). I wish he'd post more here in this forum, but I will say that he is very good about answering my questions in the Correspondent Forum. The trouble is, he often doesn't have much news to impart, which isn't his fault.
Hmm, interesting.
I think it's a shame SOE has essentially abandoned this game, in favor of some expansion pack for it, when many professions still need some attention and bug fixes in a big way.
This is an extremely poor management choice. There should be no reason to abandon a game, for the sake of working on an expansion to the same game. That's makes little to no sense. This game hasn't even been out a year...
It's also pathetic I can go around masquerading as a Dev for day, essentially mocking them, yet have no repercussions for doing so. I would imagine there won't be any challenge to my temporary Dev-hood either. I don't think they lower themselves to communicating with the likes of us. It's like we're the lepers of the game.
Warryyr wrote:
It's also pathetic I can go around masquerading as a Dev for day, essentially mocking them, yet have no repercussions for doing so. I would imagine there won't be any challenge to my temporary Dev-hood either. I don't think they lower themselves to communicating with the likes of us. It's like we're the lepers of the game.
I see you trying Warryyr, and I hope that when they wake up to it they take it in the spirit intended.
What am I saying, when have they ever done that.
Fragpuppie Uber
Master Entertainer, Master Musician
Guild Leader - Performer United Professional Society (PUPS)
Band Leader and Booking Agent - Frag's Puppies
President and CEO - Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments
Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra
the host most people use is imagedump
*please* don't post pictures there, I'm operating from behind my university's firewall and it is too time consuming for me to work around the firewall so I can visit the imagedump site (which for some reason is forbidden access on-campus).
nah, feel free to post it there...if I'm not too lazy I can head off to the public library and take a look there. 8-)
here is the entertainer dev who was brought to fan fest. I found him at the bar on thursday night.
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=82304&poll_id=0&warned=y
Message Edited by sweatyclimber on 06-09-2004 05:15 PM
sweatyclimber wrote:
here is the entertainer dev who was brought to fan fest. I found him at the bar on thursday night.
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=82304&poll_id=0&warned=y
