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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.05.10 20:59:00 -
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http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/how-a-clever-player-with-a-useless-item-almost-took-down-eve-onlines-entire
Test servers is knowledge, knowledge is power. Speaking from someone who never played EvE and basing it on stories, the community has never been kind enough regarding mistakes to make CCP think any advantage wouldn't have value. Also if there was an obscure error (thinking Imperfects in closed beta here) there is nothing stopping a person from just being quiet and waiting(not that I think they did anything wrong). They could then activate it for rewards and tell CCP about it. As long as it doesn't obliterate something CCP generally doesn't undo damage done.
Speaking as a software developer, the above makes sense. In the same way I never got peeved at Fallout 3 for errors, it was impossible to not be riddled with them with the scoping. The team required would be massive and crumble under it's own weight. Have you ever seen a FPS as complex? The only thing that comes to mind is classic Mechwarrior. Oh god the required test cases.
There are 3rd parties that do professional testing, CCP probably has some source or another and they'd be writing up test documents to try and go through everything. it's incredibly hard to do even for the smaller projects I work on. There was a story on The Trenches about a guy who's job it was to shoot every map texture in the game with every gun type to make sure it worked right.
Changes often start long long before most of the info comes to light. Changes were probably already being made before SharpShooter hit full "holy crap must have". The Uprising change was massive and sweeping. Because anything asked for would have dozens of related and interacting items changed, they likely had to interpret requests as best as possible and hope it balanced right with all the new changes. You may think some requests are explicit, they are not. Oh god the vague responses in requests. "The thing on this page isn't working", thanks.
For every 1 good response there are dozens of bad ones to sort through. I mean taking flak is part of any business, but we all know the people who open their mouths the most shouldn't be doing so. Many responses are demands for whatever they like to be better. I find it hillarious that this morning 1/4th of the threads on the first page were Heavy complaints, meanwhile there are still so many legitimate issues with vehicles (many talked about today by devs) and I think the issue regarding lack of equipment slots for new logis is enormous. This is despite me being heavy. |