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Reminds me of a little ditty We always sang while drinking our rum!


"The Cabin boy, the Cabin boy, that dirty little nipper! Lined his ass with broken glass and circumsized the skipper!"

Ah those were the days.

JFreeman, thanks for stopping by

and when Tiggs comes to yell at you show her all the niceness and smiles and thank yous in this thread that result in a normal conversational post that also happens to convey real information.

=)

Thank you.

Message Edited by Ragnaat on 06-10-2005 06:34 PM

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JFreeman wrote:

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Ramsey_Lanclo wrote:
Fair enough... How about telling us _WHAT_ it is? There was an "In Concept" a couple months ago, but we've been told that it changed from that... How about letting us in on what's coming "soon"?

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Ah. It's pretty neat. I'll recommend this for a Friday Feature when Tiggs stops by to yell at me for replying to a "PLEASE READ"-thread.

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Yeah, I know you guys arn't supposed to do that. But thanks for stoping by. Feel free to come back more often.

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JFreeman wrote:
The new slicing system is done.

Keep in mind, once a dev finishes a project like that, he checks it in. It goes into our version control software ... and we have little control over when it will get to you. Sometimes the developer isn't even 100% sure which publish his change will be in: the next one, or the one after that?

At that point, it's in for an upcoming publish with a lot of other stuff. Any of that "other stuff" could delay the publish. Or we could hear back from QA, "We don't have time to test that properly, so let's hold it for the next publish and give ourselves time to test all this other stuff." Or this could delay the publish itself. Or we could discover other issues with it in testing that cause us to sit on it for another publish, and so on. Really, anything could happen.

Most of the time, nothing bad happens, we haven't scheduled anything that requires more QA time than QA can accommodate, and what we check-in arrives on Live servers when it's supposed to. But this is just not something we can promise, so we try not to do that.

This particular torpedo has left the tube, but we can't say when precisely it will make contact with the USS Smuggler.

"Soon".

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now wasn't this one of the most refreshing posts I have seen in forever on ANY boards I read at SOE. For me letting me know that the process is continuing as planned makes the world of difference. I hope it keeps moving along. Woot.

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Kylania wrote:
I appreciate the dev
response, but it's the same line we've been getting for two years.
"Soon". Till it's ON the Live Servers nothing any dev can say will make
a difference at this point. They say it's "done", well, we can't see it
or test it or use it. That's not "done" as far as Smugglers are
concerened. As far as we know more Jedi fixes might push the Smuggler
Slice fix back even furthur. Till than I guess as a Master Smuggler
I'll keep slicing things for 3.45% (even though it says 8%) when it
should be 16% I guess.

Thanks for saying Hi, but till my
Smuggler can use the new system no amount of saying "it's done" or
"Soon" will matter. I'd go tell QA to get their butts in gear if it's
really done, coz all our anger is on the Devs at this point. It's not
QA that's been promising "Soon" for years.

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Ah,
just to be clear: QA's not the hold-up. Sometimes we push features back
that are "ready to be tested" because there are too many other features
that are also ready to be tested. I'm just saying that's one of
the sorts of things that can make it difficult to promise a precise
date when things will be released. I'm not saying that is why the slicing changes aren't on live this very second.



As far as I know, there is no hold-up with slicing: it is proceeding
along "on schedule" so far. Even so, we still can't provide any exact
dates, because stuff happens.

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JFreeman wrote:

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Ramsey_Lanclo wrote:
Fair enough... How about telling us _WHAT_ it is? There was an "In Concept" a couple months ago, but we've been told that it changed from that... How about letting us in on what's coming "soon"?

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Ah. It's pretty neat. I'll recommend this for a Friday Feature when Tiggs stops by to yell at me for replying to a "PLEASE READ"-thread.

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ROFL, now that's just damn funny. I have a bit more respect for you after this post

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cpz wrote:

Oh yeah Fishbrains - First Mate, been hit by one too many cannonballs, I fear

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not hit by enough to take me down! I r uber smuggler soldat!

Normally we would see it in the development forum. I have heard rumors that it is almost ready for test center. If that is true where was the post in the development forum?

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JFreeman wrote:

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Ramsey_Lanclo wrote:
Fair enough... How about telling us _WHAT_ it is? There was an "In Concept" a couple months ago, but we've been told that it changed from that... How about letting us in on what's coming "soon"?

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Ah. It's pretty neat. I'll recommend this for a Friday Feature when Tiggs stops by to yell at me for replying to a "PLEASE READ"-thread.

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