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Lyrah

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Log in "news" box request
« on: April 06, 2005, 06:27:09 am »
Just a tiny request, please change the log in box when you patch, to give us a TINY clue about what is new and might need testing.

IE \"Greetings Planeshift tester/player today\'s patch includes bug fixes for the following items/quest..
Blah blah blah. Thank you for helping us improve Planeshift\"

That way I could know what has changed and what hasn\'t, and focus my testing accordingly, for instance, if new monsters are added in X area...I could go there and see if they are dying right...dropping the loot as you expect them too, and the corpses despawning as they should. Are they falling through the work...and if they are agro...can they attack me but I can\'t hit or see them?

If you have new area with new artwork...then I need to see if that is drawing correctly or not...on my system.

And so forth. Just my small request so I can help test.

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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2005, 04:24:12 pm »
it isnt neccessarily of key importance, but would be nice to have

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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2005, 05:40:41 pm »
You can view all of the bugfixes and new additions by reading the CVS changelog.txt.

Firstly, editing the server\'s MOTD requires an admin with an access level to do so, and not all devs have that. Meaning that, secondly, those higher level devs will need to waste time trying to find out all the little things that other devs fixed lately before they can write it. Sure, it\'s not much work, but since devs commit fixes on a daily basis, it will get very old... very quickly.

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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2005, 01:23:23 pm »
some things are to high tech
unstable client? piss poor gameplay?

a weak staff?


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« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2005, 12:13:46 am »
Good point Moogie, please allow me to clarify my thoughts.

I meant when a change is large enough that testing would be neccessary. A new quest, new area opened up, new loot table on mobs, New skin, new race. Something BIG that the big guys with the access would more than like have at least had to sign off on the finished work.

I didn\'t mean when the game was tweeked, but rather when the game is expanded or major old known bugs are removed (or at least they were removed in house). For instance, when both all of the rat bugs are fixed and the quests are up and running as intended...that would be big enough in my opinion to call the players attention to it.

And as to looking to web sites and forums, I do, you do, many of us reading this do, but...many others that downloaded and update the game do not even come here or the web site.

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You can view all of the bugfixes and new additions by reading the CVS changelog.txt.

Firstly, editing the server\'s MOTD requires an admin with an access level to do so, and not all devs have that. Meaning that, secondly, those higher level devs will need to waste time trying to find out all the little things that other devs fixed lately before they can write it. Sure, it\'s not much work, but since devs commit fixes on a daily basis, it will get very old... very quickly.

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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2005, 12:48:11 am »
Well for \'big\' things liek that, they do have updates on the laanx page, and sualy you need to download a new client to have the correct version to play. They just assume that people will go out and look for what\'s new instead of the devs saying it everywheres. Guess they\'d much rather work on things then talk about them :P

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