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[Blackdog_kt]

I'm eagerly awaiting improvements too, but come on guys, exercise some common sense.

What would a daily update really do for us? I guess nothing, because the amount of progress perceivable by most of us without going into overly technical details is not stuff that can be done in the course of a single work day.

It would be like "Today the guys stumbled upon a bug in the AI subroutine that divides the sky around the AI aircraft into portions for them to scan, but on the bright side they have found out how to increase the accuracy of their blindspot calculations by 0.35 degrees while utilizing 20% less lines of code, which will make that individual subroutine run 0.01% faster on a quad core CPU. This is done by switching the parametric equations from a Cartesian to a spherical system of coordinates."

How useful is that to the majority of people here? Not much and that's why the daily updates would be a sequence of "patch is being worked on, ETA is X days", or "patch is delayed for a couple of days due to unexpected bugs", which would still be considered inadequate and vague by the people who are craving for a live webcam feed from the 1c offices

It's been just a few days since the last update, unless they inundate us with coding discussions that maybe 5% of the forums understands, there's probably no way to display what kind of progress is being made, yet some people are expecting to know something that they probably won't understand anyway, it's hilarious.

I wish they start doing daily updates and telling us how they optimized memory allocation by moving the gun flashes to a separate block of RAM, hexadecimal addresses and all, just for the comedy factor: everyone would be going "geez, i haven no idea what that means but thanks for the feedback!" because they somehow feel in the loop even though they don't know what the update is talking about


If we don't get information people get anxious, ok, that's reasonable.

When we get it it's considered inadequte and vague, even though most of the forum population is unable to grasp the technical side of things and it has to be kept simple for us, but let's chalk this one up to enthusiasm and impatience because i like giving everyone the benefit of doubt.

However, that information which is so demanded only to be shot down as vague and inadequate is then held to a standard of absolute truth and signed legally binding contract, even though it was considered inadequate by the very same people. Now, that's just lack of consistency and self-contradiction, which is the easiest way to strip oneself of any credibility whatsoever.

Don't see this as a personal attack because it's not and i'm not singling out anyone in particular (we all act like this one time or another, it's just that some make a daily habit of it). It's just a description of how things roll around here and if it makes people upset to see it discussed, maybe they shouldn't do it in the first place so it can't be talked about. Cheers