Or that if i was swamped by diseases and pollution and bugs, that i would duly note them in mantis and ask if x diseases was where you wanted things right now, or if i was doing something way different than everybody else that was playing the game. If i found a ui that i was not certain was clear, that i would post it on mantis and say i thought it was unclear and that maybe that could be looked at. I thought testing meant, if i found a bug, i'd post it on mantis. Or that i was frustrated and quiting until heck freezes over.
Meaning, i didn't sign up to get a copy and then say i didn't understand it, that i didn't like the way it did this or that. I don't have a crystal ball, so I could still be wrong, but at the moment that looks solid.Īt the risk of getting flamed, I would like to point out, that i thought testers (which i would also claim to be a part of, though not right this second) were in this for the testing. (Then again, maybe I'm like Marty McFly going "ten minutes ought to do it." Dude, you're in a time machine - give yourself an hour or two, for crying out loud.) In seriousness, I think that this is a date that we can hit, based on what I am seeing presently in mantis, reports from players, and so on. An extra month ought to do it on that front. Distance from the game will be helpful for that purpose, and hopefully you fall in love with the game at that point - once you can actually tell what you're doing.Īll in all I could not be more pleased with how this is shaping up, but that nagging issue of time is the thing that has been eating me alive. To those folks, I completely understand that, and my request is that you continue to give it a break for a while, and when the tutorials and so forth are in, then I'd love your revised opinion. There are also some testers who have a copy of the game, but dropped out of active testing a while back because they felt lost in prior versions. But for those who ARE already into the game and have in some cases dozens of hours in it, continuing to keep them engaged in finding things that aren't fun or that aren't balanced or whatnot is a process that has to run alongside the clarity issue.
There's just so much I haven't had time to properly document yet, and that's something I need to be able to spend the correct amount of time on. But some of the testers that have been coming in have really been getting lost on the "what is clear" aspect of things, and that's understandable. Thus far our main focus has been on what is fun, and really honing in on that. As I've said all along, I need fresh perspectives every time we make major changes to the game or to the way that the game communicates itself to you (ie HUD, tooltips, tutorials, etc) so that we can find out both what is fun and what is clear. Probably I am going to slow down the rate of adding new testers a bit, at least in the short term. We need that last time to get everything of that sorted out. I don't want to just stagger across the finish line with all the features in place but a mess of minor bugs and minor/major clarity issues. The thing that's been bothering me to no end is just that feeling of not having enough time to really make it as close to perfect as possible. This game is making enormous leaps and bounds every week of the beta, and I'm super excited about where it's heading. Pushing for that July release date was about to give me a heart attack, and I managed to switch around my schedule some so that I won't be out of the office so much in August, which is good that had been one barrier to pushback before.
STARS BEYOND REACH PETITION FULL
Without giving away any sort of spoilers or whatnot to those not yet testing, I can say that testing is going really well in the main, but it is a huge game and it needs the proper amount of time to come into its full form AND be properly documented and tutorialized and so on. In that case, that probably IS the news you wanted to hear. Well, unless you're already a beta tester. Blah! Not the news you wanted to hear, right?
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