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FYI: Tribble is raw build without internal QA

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Lots of great comments here. One of the most consistent themes I am hearing is that you feel you are getting lack of information. Let me honestly say that we are really doing our best. It is the reason we are doing such regular Dev Bogs and the reason I am posting here now instead of finishing the skill system. There simply is a lot of information to get out there, and a lot of it changes very quickly.

I am not sure if everyone realizes, but our testing/release process has significantly changed. In the past, we would make a change, and it would first go to our internal QA shard. QA would bang on it, and we would do balance testing there. Sometimes for weeks. Then that build would go to tribble for you to test. Well, with F2P being as huge as it is, we now have 2 test server - Red Shirt and Tribble. Obviously we need both so we can test changes going straight to holodeck, and at the same time test a long term F2P release. What is on Tribble now is what would normally go first to our internal QA. So bottom line is, you are getting very raw builds with lots of experimentation. And a lot of the iteration you are seeing is happening so fast that it's sometimes really hard to get the information to you in a timely manner. Sometimes we get something out to tribble, and before you even get it, we already have it changed. Sometimes, somethings just go out incomplete. I apologize and wish we could get information to you faster, and I promise we will continue to do our best in the future. Unfortunately, some information will slip through the cracks, and that information is always going to be important to someone.

BTW, since it was asked, yes we are still working on crafting. The current implementation is not final and we hope to improve it to your likely. I don’t want to get into details because this is not the right place, and frankly we are not done. We will try to get you the information as soon as we have more detials.

This post from CaptainGeko confirms that the builds being patched to Tribble are not going through Cryptic's internal QA process prior to release. That helps explain why many of the things on Tribble are the way they are. Just a heads up.

EDIT: source here.

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