09-08-2007, 06:33 AM
i think the majority of our players don't script or program in any language so i'll try to explain to you a big problem our devs face...
lets say you are writing an essay in Word but there is no spellcheck and you can only print your essay when it has 0 spelling errors or typos. this means you can't say "to" instead of "too", you can't write "i am happy" but only "I am happy", if you put a comma instead of a period you can't print, etc. It's like Word knows you have errors, but won't tell you about them.
that is how scripting works. If you have 1 typo, the script won't work.
lets take it one step further; you correct all your typos and print your essay. after you read it, you find you don't like how one part is worded so you edit it and make more types. again, you can't print until you fix all the typos.
this would be like tweaking a script after people report issues or give suggestions to make it better. i hope you can understand now, in part, why it takes long to do a shard.
on another note: beta 2 may have closed several months ago, but the staff are still testing for bugs. when we find something, we then gotta fix it. we can't ignore it.
if it makes you feel any better, i will stop odium from taking a bathroom break... only problem is im several thousand kilometers away and can't enforce this
lets say you are writing an essay in Word but there is no spellcheck and you can only print your essay when it has 0 spelling errors or typos. this means you can't say "to" instead of "too", you can't write "i am happy" but only "I am happy", if you put a comma instead of a period you can't print, etc. It's like Word knows you have errors, but won't tell you about them.
that is how scripting works. If you have 1 typo, the script won't work.
lets take it one step further; you correct all your typos and print your essay. after you read it, you find you don't like how one part is worded so you edit it and make more types. again, you can't print until you fix all the typos.
this would be like tweaking a script after people report issues or give suggestions to make it better. i hope you can understand now, in part, why it takes long to do a shard.
on another note: beta 2 may have closed several months ago, but the staff are still testing for bugs. when we find something, we then gotta fix it. we can't ignore it.
if it makes you feel any better, i will stop odium from taking a bathroom break... only problem is im several thousand kilometers away and can't enforce this
Thanks,
GM Pande
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