That would be a great idea but there is a problem. The game needs to continue making money and that means Rattati has to maintain a balance between focusing on bug fixes and introducing more content.

Let me give you an analogy to better explain why.

Pretend that I am an aircraft mechanic working for an airline. A commercial jet rolls into the hangar and is due for an annual inspection. However, since the aircraft is needed in action as often as possible to maintain revenue for the airline and since an aircraft on ground is an aircraft that is NOT making any money, we already filed the necessary paperwork to perform a progressive inspection instead.

A progressive inspection is exactly like an annual inspection only it is performed at set intervals (usually every month) over the course of an entire year rather than being performed all at once. On the first month we inspect the wings. The following month we inspect the tail section. The month after that we inspect the landing gear, hydraulic & pneumatic systems, and so on and so forth until the 12th month when finally sign it off as completed and say it's airworthy. In the meantime, the aircraft continues to fly for the airline to make more money. This is preferred over doing the entire inspection process all in one go.

Congratulations, you just learned something new that you probably won't even bother to use for the rest of your life unless you're an aircraft mechanic like me.

Orly?
-60 used on what plane?


Item was called a DASH sixty

CCP put new content and balancing on hold for a month or two to work solely on nothing but bug fixes?

I would extend this to "polish".

Polish contains bug fixes, but also minor design changes to existing features.

Some stuff I find relevant:
- The charge level of weapons is being displayed in the wrong place (bottom right) instead of center, where you'd need it.
- There is no visual feedback when you're being repaired.
- The bandwidth feature is still in early development stage. How much bandwidth am I using right now?
- When trying to enter a vehicle but all seats are taken this isn't shown visually and the user is left to speculate (maybe lag?).
- The match start procedure is still the same as back when designers thought fights would be multiple hours long by 2014.
(Hint: "Deployment starts in 10 ... 9 ... 8" and then everyone spawns at the same time.)
- The "Press R1 to see daily missions" button should not be visible on screen all the time. It stopped being a new feature and should go into one of the Neocom tabs. Maybe put a red exclamation mark there after each downtime until the person looked at it.
- One of the shaders still goes wonky when being a gunner on a hardened vehicle. The same can be observed while hacking when the left arm is being lit. The bright parts slowly become brighter while the dark parts get darker.
- When driving a vehicle you can't see the ammo on your gunners.
- The match loading screens don't deliver relevant information. This has irked me since 2013. From my perspective this could help improve NPE significantly within 2 weeks, if somebody finally bothered to do it.
(I've seen examples where loading screens even showed small first-person tutorial videos to explain how certain actions work. There's so much space for improvement.)
- The aiming mechanics didn't receive a make-over since closed beta. We should at least get the possibility to manipulate sensitivity, non-linearity and deadzones for X and Y direction in the settings - maybe under an "advanced settings" tab.
- I could go on. The gist of it is that Dust really needs some polish.

That would be a great idea but there is a problem. The game needs to continue making money and that means Rattati has to maintain a balance between focusing on bug fixes and introducing more content.

Let me give you an analogy to better explain why.

Pretend that I am an aircraft mechanic working for an airline. A commercial jet rolls into the hangar and is due for an annual inspection. However, since the aircraft is needed in action as often as possible to maintain revenue for the airline and since an aircraft on ground is an aircraft that is NOT making any money, we already filed the necessary paperwork to perform a progressive inspection instead.

A progressive inspection is exactly like an annual inspection only it is performed at set intervals (usually every month) over the course of an entire year rather than being performed all at once. On the first month we inspect the wings. The following month we inspect the tail section. The month after that we inspect the landing gear, hydraulic & pneumatic systems, and so on and so forth until the 12th month when finally sign it off as completed and say it's airworthy. In the meantime, the aircraft continues to fly for the airline to make more money. This is preferred over doing the entire inspection process all in one go.

Congratulations, you just learned something new that you probably won't even bother to use for the rest of your life unless you're an aircraft mechanic like me.

I work at Northrop Grumman. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Sounds like we do things a lot different.

That not surprising to be honest. Airlines, cargo companies, repair stations, and aircraft/engine manufacturers do things differently from each other depending on what's needed of the aircraft and under what Part of the FARs the aircraft operates in. Some places do what I like to call the Alphabet soup of Checks (A Check, B Check, C Check, etc.), some do annual inspections, others do progressive inspections, or some other form that is approved by both the manufacturer and the FAA.

By the way, you're lucky to be working for Northrop. That company has a lot of history.

I fly on a lot of airplanes, does that count?

/not sure if actual pilot or frequent flyer with a lot of miles

I'm just recently certified and I was only using the airline part as an analogy. But a quick search on AviationPros reveals that you're talking about a power unit used for testing things like landing gear retraction or any other part of the aircraft that relies on hydraulic power. Given its design, I would probably say it's used on regional aircraft that are not too big.

http://www.aviationpros.com/product/10025602/avtron-manufacturing-inc-dash-60-upgrade-kit
http://www.aviationpros.com/product/10025541/avtron-manufacturing-inc-testing-equipment

PS: Sorry for throwing this thread off topic. I did not intend to turn this into a class covering the FARs.

CCP put new content and balancing on hold for a month or two to work solely on nothing but bug fixes?

I usually don't like you, but I agree with your post. +1 and respect!
(jk on the not liking you part, don't really know you, just know a lot of people don't like you, oh well xD)

CCP put new content and balancing on hold for a month or two to work solely on nothing but bug fixes?

Please post again when you have a bug list that you propose they focus on.

CCP put new content and balancing on hold for a month or two to work solely on nothing but bug fixes?