[Nov '22] Improvements Feedback

(Edited by Slither at 5:58 am on 11/11/2022)

Or even a @holdback that only targets END, if you want people trying to hide their high END to actually be mechanically weaker.

It's great this cyberware has been fixed, but it remains a bit of a puzzle to me functionality wise since it duplicates two other skills in functionality, but doesn't actually provide additional tools to riggers, pilots or drivers. It basically lets riggers get additional skills without spending UE, which is a bit strange to begin with, and then doesn't actually control drones. The whole thing feels like a tool custom built for a single character so they didn't have to take any vehicle skills.

Could this possibly be expanded to work with more than vehicles to provide advanced tools for actual robot rigging?

(Edited by Slither at 9:24 pm on 12/1/2022)

Patch notes generally should be a place to note patches. Not a place to vent frustrations.

As a developer and coder by trade for a little over a decade now, I have picked up from others. While I might comment to a colleague about how angry I am at this old coder I would never put it into my notes, especially if these notes were to be presented to those involved at large.

All it does is cause negativity where there is no need for it, muddies the waters if there is a legitimate concern or concerns that should be addressed in a more adult fashion in a public statement and causes confusion to the community these notes are designed to inform and help.

Most of all, it undermines the excellent work you are doing, because it has made people question why there is a sudden influx of notation on these bugs. Especially when you consider this month's bugs and improvements thread has nearly doubled the average when compared to the last year.

I believe there is just an upshot of detailing these things, that the reasons are legitimate and that there is some bleed in these notes where there should not be. I would like to hear from others though, the community and staff.

As I said previously, there are plenty of bugs being fixed that could warrant the exact same backhanded comments and passive aggression. You left a debug statement in your code? Couldn't that have been fixed with testing? What about flarelighter messaging, which has been broken for years? Macros have been sitting incomplete for longer than I've been alive?

The point isn't that I think your code sucks and that you should feel bad, it's that just by sifting through the absolute most recent bugfixes, even you fall short of the standards you've set, and you're not adding any difficult-to-code systems to the game while doing it. I think most people would rather have a buggy Sindome than a stale Sindome, though, so literally anything being posted on the improvement forums makes everyone very happy. When each fix is laced with poison, however, it taints that.

Having actually used almost all of the new systems and new items, I disagree. Decking needs to be implemented or have the skills just removed until it is, but otherwise the game is two decades old and doesn't allow virtually any flexibility in character re-development: At this point I'd call the stability a feature until players can have more control over their builds.

Having existing systems change underneath players with no way to adapt and just having to hope the rapid prototyping roulette wheel worked out was not sustainable.

(Edited by Slither at 9:24 pm on 12/1/2022)

Can we be done with this, please?

I did not set out to find it.

It popped up in my newsfeed.

What are the odds that an algorithm is going to bring up a news story that has this creepy intersection of a game I play, the industry I work in, and someone who may or may not share the same hobby profession (coding) and interest in a certain type of cars?

What are odds that of the literal thousands of laid off employees at a major tech firm that the reporter would interview and use a photo of a person who may or not be someone who used to play the same game that the rest of us play?

I censored it. I removed all publicly identifiable information. I even blurred the license plate on the off chance that it is the person we all know.

If you're uncomfortable, good. It's not personal against the previous coder, or anyone else.

Take a long hard look about the systems that are being built around us. Collecting our data. Correlating it. Keep thinking about it. It's only going to get worse.

(Edited by Slither at 12:27 pm on 11/29/2022)

I can't be the only one lurking this thread thinking "Wow I'd have loved to donate my time and programming expertise, but not if I'm gonna get roasted for it after the fact".