quote:If John Q. Player decides to post every bug he finds, the game will stay permanently broken

I disagree....If everyone knows about a bug, then 1 of 2 things will happen:
1) The programmer will fix it imediately
or
2) Players will avoid servers running the versions containing those bugs.

JP has done a great job getting bug fixes out, but if all SysOps knew what bugs still existed, they could only help keep the games fair by watching out for their use.

I continue to believe in a "Freedom of Information Act" for TradeWars.

Abraxus

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...... and my memory isn't the best these days.




Lisa,

I can take this down many of different of roads. But, I'll just be nice and keep my fingures from typing.


Thank you for sparing me.

Lisa M. Cutler
aka Rave
EIS Product Support

quote:
quote:
If John Q. Player decides to post every bug he finds, the game will stay permanently broken

I disagree....If everyone knows about a bug, then 1 of 2 things will happen:
1) The programmer will fix it imediately
or
2) Players will avoid servers running the versions containing those bugs.

JP has done a great job getting bug fixes out, but if all SysOps knew what bugs still existed, they could only help keep the games fair by watching out for their use.

I continue to believe in a "Freedom of Information Act" for TradeWars.

Abraxus


Starting after the release of .56 I'll begin posting known bugs as I hear of them. I won't go into the specifics of how to reproduce them, but I'll provide things to look for to determine whether or not these bugs are being used.

I'd consider posting them now but I have no idea what has or has not been resolved in .56. I've just been gone too much this past month and lost track at some point.

Lisa M. Cutler
aka Rave
EIS Product Support