DUST Search - Since Vehicle Rebalance was deplayed past 1.5, I SURE hope 1.6 will have

Ignoble Son wrote:

CCP FoxFour wrote:

Nguruthos IX wrote:

~Racial variants of all vehicles.
~New turret types
~A respec for vehicle users
~Dropship cloaking
~A new vehicle type

~The promise that with each introduction of new racial variants, partial respecs will be offered since CCP decided to release Dust without over half of it's content.

These would be a good reason for having to wait another month.

Out of curiosity, how long do you think each one of those line items would take in terms of man hours?

A couple of days max. Because at this point I'm just sick and tired of waiting, and really don't give a **** anymore. Here look I'll demonstrate:

"New turret types":

Minmatar small turret:

Take three small missile turrets and scale them down in size. Angle them upward. Attach them to the top of one turret stand. Take the mass driver projectile animation bend the arc on the projectile flight path and extend the flight time. Paint the whole thing redish brown. Specs are eyeballed, best ballpark. The community can play test it for us. Simple numerical modifications can be made in the following several days after release.

BLAM!!!! Minmatar small artillery turret.

Minmatar large turret:

Take the large missile turret and angle the turret upward. Take the animation from the massdriver projectile and scale up the size a little. Do the same as above with the projectile flight path. Paint the thing redish brown. Eyeballed stats.

BLAM!!!!-áMinmatar large artillery turret.

Amarr small turret:

Combine a blaster turret and the animation from the laser rifle. Scale the laser animation up in size a bit. Paint the whole thing gold. Eyeballed stats.

BLAM!!!! Amarr laser turret.

Amarr large turret:

Same as above.

BLAM!!!! Done.

"A respec for vehicle users":

We've already seen how this works. Start immediately.

BLAM!!!! Done.

"Dropship cloaking":

Module is activated dropship animation is removed. Nothing fancy just gone. Specs are eyeballed.

BLAM!!!! Dropship cloaking. Done!

"A new vehicle type":

Speeder:

Take the animation from the LAV. Split the animation down the center. Cut roughly one meter from the center side of each half. Reattach both halves. Take the animation, and, -áfrom front to rear end, squish the animation together slightly (should only have two wheels after it is done). Stats are eyeballed.

BLAM!!!! Speeders.

Race variants:

Take the Gallente stuff (tanks, LAVs, speeders) and paint it gold. All stats are eyeballed for community testing.

BLAM!!!! Amarr suff.

Take the Caldari stuff and paint it redish brown. Copy and past some of the art from the Minmatar medium frame dropsuit (like canisters and all that other crap, scale them up a bit) and slap that stuff onto the Cal vehicles.-áAll stats are eyeballed for community testing.

BLAM!!!! Minmatar stuff.

BLAM!!!! Done!!!!


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Atiim Living Like Larry Schwag 14	Posted - 2013.09.19 00:12:00 - [1] - Quote Ignoble Son wrote: CCP FoxFour wrote: Nguruthos IX wrote: ~Racial variants of all vehicles. ~New turret types ~A respec for vehicle users ~Dropship cloaking ~A new vehicle type ~The promise that with each introduction of new racial variants, partial respecs will be offered since CCP decided to release Dust without over half of it's content. These would be a good reason for having to wait another month. Out of curiosity, how long do you think each one of those line items would take in terms of man hours? A couple of days max. Because at this point I'm just sick and tired of waiting, and really don't give a **** anymore. Here look I'll demonstrate: "New turret types": Minmatar small turret: Take three small missile turrets and scale them down in size. Angle them upward. Attach them to the top of one turret stand. Take the mass driver projectile animation bend the arc on the projectile flight path and extend the flight time. Paint the whole thing redish brown. Specs are eyeballed, best ballpark. The community can play test it for us. Simple numerical modifications can be made in the following several days after release. BLAM!!!! Minmatar small artillery turret. Minmatar large turret: Take the large missile turret and angle the turret upward. Take the animation from the massdriver projectile and scale up the size a little. Do the same as above with the projectile flight path. Paint the thing redish brown. Eyeballed stats. BLAM!!!!-áMinmatar large artillery turret. Amarr small turret: Combine a blaster turret and the animation from the laser rifle. Scale the laser animation up in size a bit. Paint the whole thing gold. Eyeballed stats. BLAM!!!! Amarr laser turret. Amarr large turret: Same as above. BLAM!!!! Done. "A respec for vehicle users": We've already seen how this works. Start immediately. BLAM!!!! Done. "Dropship cloaking": Module is activated dropship animation is removed. Nothing fancy just gone. Specs are eyeballed. BLAM!!!! Dropship cloaking. Done! "A new vehicle type": Speeder: Take the animation from the LAV. Split the animation down the center. Cut roughly one meter from the center side of each half. Reattach both halves. Take the animation, and, -áfrom front to rear end, squish the animation together slightly (should only have two wheels after it is done). Stats are eyeballed. BLAM!!!! Speeders. Race variants: Take the Gallente stuff (tanks, LAVs, speeders) and paint it gold. All stats are eyeballed for community testing. BLAM!!!! Amarr suff. Take the Caldari stuff and paint it redish brown. Copy and past some of the art from the Minmatar medium frame dropsuit (like canisters and all that other crap, scale them up a bit) and slap that stuff onto the Cal vehicles.-áAll stats are eyeballed for community testing. BLAM!!!! Minmatar stuff. BLAM!!!! Done!!!! Do you and everybody else realize that for every new game mechanic that's requested they have to actually code it? What did you think that the dev's have magic powers and can just pull an entire redesigned mechanic or item out of a hat? Gosh the dev's already have enough on their plate as it is. I'm assuming that you don't know how hard it is to code a game, because if you did you wouldn't be complaining. I doubt the dev's even have time to sit down and play their own !@#$%$ game! Plus last time I checked this game is FREE (not saying that should mean anything), but at least pretend that you are appreciative. PS There is no such thing as BLAM!!!!! done. It actually takes more than half a second.
Atiim Living Like Larry Schwag 17	Posted - 2013.09.19 13:44:00 - [2] - Quote Severus Smith wrote: Himiko Kuronaga wrote: CCP FoxFour wrote: Nguruthos IX wrote: ~Racial variants of all vehicles. ~New turret types ~A respec for vehicle users ~Dropship cloaking ~A new vehicle type ~The promise that with each introduction of new racial variants, partial respecs will be offered since CCP decided to release Dust without over half of it's content. These would be a good reason for having to wait another month. Out of curiosity, how long do you think each one of those line items would take in terms of man hours? If you have to ask that question, you need a bigger budget. If you think that throwing more money at a coding problem will make it happen faster you need to get the f* out of IT. Listen, I am a software developer. I work on applications for oil companies, brokerage firms and large energy companies with project budgets larger than CCP's annual income. Coding accounts for <40% of our time. Most of it is is investigation, design, approval, mockup, approval, (then coding), then unit tests, then fixing, then unit tests again, then QA pass, then staging release, then more QA tests, then full integration tests, then production release planning, then the production mock release, then (finally) the production release. They are on a 1 month agile release cycle which means 1 week of investigation, design, approval. Then a 2 week sprint of coding. Then 1 week of QA, integration testing and release. And that's if everything works out perfectly. If they find a nasty bug then they miss the release and make it to the next one. Throwing money at a problem helps to bring on more resources to spread out work. But suddenly adding 10 more programmers wont speed things up, in fact (most times) it slows things down as you need to dedicate man hours to training the new resources and deal with the bugs they will introduce due to not being familiar with the code. Eventually they will get up to speed, but even then you'll probably run into the problem of "too many hands in the cookie jar" which causes you to have to divvy up tasks into micro-projects which causes a nightmare with code merges / task management. - You yell when CCP doesn't tell you what's coming in the next patch. - Then when they do tell you whats coming you yell when it's delayed due to it being buggy and scream "release it anyway". - Then when they do release it anyway you yell that they don't know what they're doing and the new feature is broken and shouldn't have been released. - Then they don't tell you ** and you yell but they ignore you because no matter what they do you're going to yell. So for everyone commenting here who doesn't work as a programmer, shut up. I don't come into your workplace and tell you how to flip burgers faster... Amen. Finally, another programmer who realizes that everything actually takes time.