Originally posted by Seytra
As for releasing the game: PS has been awaited for two years! There has been an entire year without a single update! The community was tearing itself apart crying for a release. It is my opinion that the devs were very wise to release it, because they have been testing it in two closed stages, and the only way to get the myriad of bugs that creep up now is to release. I admit that I was a bit surprised by the amount of serious problems popping up, but OTOH, there are serious improvements from MB to CB, and also the devs are making remarkably good progress in fixing the bugs. :tup:
Sure, there\'s more overhead due to n-plicate bug reports, but OTOH, due to the dump system, they can be sorted out in relatively short time AFAICS. Furthermore, many of the bugs don\'t appear in a closed testing due to the limited variety of systems and configurations in the closed group.

Keeping people from giving up is probably worth it. I sometimes
envy the guys doing XBox games. They don\'t have to worry about
getting workable code with N thousand different hardware
variations!

I wish you all great luck with it!

Somehow it ate itself. In one of the previous sessions I hit the quit
button and it refused to shutdown. I used the task manager
to kill the application. Now none of the applications work.
The setup program brings up an dos application window which
pauses for several minutes, then changes the window title, and
finally locks up the machine. The game application does the same.
I powered the machine off and restarted. No change.

If I remember correctly from the crystal space programming I did you can get it not to bring up a dos window by changing a few settings on
the compiler. The settings were listed in the CS forums.

I\'ve got a lot of other things that I need to do today so I\'ve uninstalled Plane Shift. Thanks for taking the time to help.

I think the public beta test was a bad idea. You\'re wasting your time on bug reports and creating a bad impression of the game by releasing it before it was ready. A good remote debugging suite (at minimum something like dxdiag, or better yet, Mozilla\'s suite) and an alpha test with a limited group of users would have been better and less frustrating.

I can\'t login because I can\'t enter the \'@\' symbol in my email
address. I tried to cut and paste the address but text paste does
not work in the input field. I tried the very old trick of holding
down the alt key and entering the numeric code for the key but
that does not work either.

I also note that the ability to select text and replace it by typing does not work. This isn\'t a bug but is convenient.