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Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« on: February 01, 2007, 12:43:43 am »
I am about to start handing out a bunch of tasks to engine team prospects and I'd like to know what the community feels are the most annoying (small) bugs in the game.  They need to be kinda small problems, because new programmers and new volunteers don't know the engine code very well yet, so I need things that are actually achievable.  Submit your ideas here for this list, or agree with others so I can tell which are the most important.

Ones with Bugtracker urls will get extra consideration. :-)

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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2007, 12:50:47 am »
Number-freaking-one has got to be NPC-communication. It's unbelievably OOC and it's almost impossible to complete a quest without asking for specific phrases OOCly anyway.

I know it's not strictly a bug, but I'd consider it one, 'cause it bugs the hell outta me, and almost anyone embarking on a new quest. Would it be so hard to suspend the whole thing temporarily and stick in the usual 'multiple-choice answer' thing, or even cut out all the keyword-phrases and change it to yes/no answers?

I doubt it'd be too hard to simply detect someone has a certain quest, and have the involved NPCs react accordingly on first contact, instead of playing a 2-hour guessing game...

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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2007, 12:54:44 am »
They need to be kinda small problems, because new programmers and new volunteers don't know the engine code very well yet, so I need things that are actually achievable.

"Redo NPC communication" isn't quite what Venge had in mind. The system is still a work in progress, and in the long run it makes more sense to make this system usable than to write a new system as a "stand in".

That said, the thing that annoys me the most in PS isn't really something that would be done by new developers. It's the non-matching skyboxes at warping portals between maps. Messes with my OCD need for everything to line up nicely :P

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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2007, 01:00:54 am »
dont think its engine related but, fix the lighting in oja? It lacks effects of daytime\nightime. its just static.
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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2007, 01:23:19 am »
I'm sure it can't be that hard. For one, you already know the precise cause of the bug, and so you can start bypassing code immediately...

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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2007, 01:44:26 am »
Fix the lighting on the Mac version.

Fix fenkis' shoulders to have them attach properly.

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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2007, 02:07:09 am »
Just a suggestion to start with please explain to us what is part of what the engine team does so we dont list bugs for other teams to fix.

[I am not sure any of these bugs listed by others are for the engine team]

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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2007, 03:39:52 am »
not necessarily a bug:  make a sit animation for all the character models
others:
colors bug---get checkerboard coloring on somethings once in a while
tavern sewer entrance --- pisses me off all the time when i try to walk out and end up falling into oblivion
lag --- sry had to put it on here :P
crash when cast spells --- i heard this just may be the nividia graphics cards....but fact remains i dont think it has happened to me a while ago and thought maybe could revert something back so this doesn't happend.  Extremely frustrating
hair color --- i think it may just be me and if it is tell me how i can fix it...on my screen, everyone's hair is the same color except those such as dermorians who's character model's hair only comes in black.  Each time i log in people's hair is a different color.  Sometimes everyone will have red hair, sometimes blond, sometimes gray.  Last time everyone had brown hair on my screen.  not a big problem tho...but gets annoying once in a while.
Need more spells --- especially azure and blue way because they only have 1 each.  OH...wait...how did that get in here??  ::)

That's all that i can think of right now...
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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2007, 05:47:59 am »
Hatchets are too powerful.


If in mouselook and you get disconnected, you have to battle with the pointer to kind of throw it at the confirmation button on the notification window because the pointer is stuck in the center of the screen.


Particle problems in the Temple and the Tavern cause my client to disconnect.  Particle free maps for those areas would be nice.


There are various quest items which are weapons or pieces of armour, but they can't be equipped.


Character models for the fenkis are mixed up.  The wrong arms on the wrong bodies etc.
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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2007, 11:44:02 am »
Hi,

I am quite new to this forum, but since i saw this thread, i could not resist.

OK, there is this serious issue with cloning various items within a sack, I won't post the URL , it is a well known bug though. If you do not know which i have in mind please send me a PM, just do not want noobs trying it out. If I should be honest with you, this should be fixed immidiately.

This would be what i propose for a small bug.

(sorry for bad grammar, i am not a native speaker)
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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2007, 03:43:37 pm »
I don't know if it's "engine" related but sometimes Guild message of the day will get cut in half after server crash, is this a bug? If so it's one of my top choices any others would be dueling related but there's so many and I couldn't find any on bugtracker but it was my first time browsing through.


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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2007, 05:43:13 pm »
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Re: Top 10 List of Small Bugs
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2007, 06:22:01 pm »
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