I'm a little confused...

[nelliott]

I have so far mostly enjoyed my experience with PS, I think it shows a great deal of potential, and I\'m excited to follow it\'s progression of the following months and years.  Having said that, I have some questions I haven\'t seen any answers to on the board.  If I haven\'t looked hard enough, I apologize for being redundant.

I repeatedly see the comment that the current status of the game is \"Alpha - tech demo\", with comments about how the real point of the whole experience right now is to work the bugs out of the server platform to improve stability / reduce crashes.

If this is the case, why are there GMs running around worrying about what anyone\'s name is?  According to the General Discussion forums, all characters will be wiped soon anyways.

I can appreciate the desire to avoid rediculous names like \"IspankYou\" or somesuch crap... my point is only that it seems to me that much bigger problems exist now.

Trade doesn\'t work...dropped things cannot always be picked up...some items have no graphic at all....the battle system seems to be very incomplete....

Is there an official list anywhere of these kinds of bugs, the status of them?  Is there an announcement process for changes being worked?  It seems like the current process is:  Find something you don\'t understand, ask an advisor, if they can\'t help, search the forums....maybe you\'ll find an answer and maybe not?  (example:  recenty stack limit changes)

I don\'t mean to come off like I\'m ragging on the game, or all the people who put so much hard working into developing it.  Just trying to make one small point that it *appears* some of the priorities are misaligned...

Thanks for listening.

/rant

[Moogie]

GMs are enforcing the Naming Policy from an early stage to get used to it themselves, aswell as make players aware that we arn\'t just another MMORPG that couldn\'t care less about RP. Names can be hard to judge; they arn\'t always as stupid and obvious as \"Spankthemoney\" for example. Some people will obviously be upset if they are renamed, but if they have an RP history for their strange name, they can show the GM the story and get the name back.

We have a bugtracker and the CVS\' changelog (lists of bugs reported and bugs fixed, respectively) to help keep track of things. However, new bugs that pop up will get reported by tonnes of people on the forums, so if you have the same bug, the best place will always be here.

As for advisors, they won\'t be very reliable untill we get some sort of \'advisor test\' implemented to stop \"just anyone\" becoming an advisor when they don\'t know a thing.