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So a question for the people asking for "full stop and fix bugs only"
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How long should it last?
So a question for the people asking for "full stop and fix bugs only" 35 votes
Until everything is fixed
28%
10 votes
Half a year
25%
9 votes
A year
5%
2 votes
Two years
0%
0 votes
Other (please state your answer below)
40%
14 votes
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I think cryptic is coming around for that a great deal the past moths so I’m fine. They addressed the lag quiet a lot, the new bug hunter task force, recent tribble patch notes, the levelling problem being reduced with armada & admirailty, better communication with the devs and community representatives here in forums, softening pve fail criteria. All of it gets me a bit more optimistic with STO again.
With Delta Rising they wanted to check how far they can push the customers. I think a lot of people have spoken by leaving and/or paying less so much now is damage control and therefore high on their priority list.
Perhaps PWE has realized that only happy customers are good customers after all, but hey that’s probably a bit too optimistic.
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The only one I can consistently find anymore is that, on some machines, the framerate on Risa, New Romulus, and a few other ground maps is inexplicably terrible on all graphics settings. But I'm definitely not going to say that having new episodes and PVE's is why we're still waiting on that one.
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New content brings in money, money allows for time to be spend on fixes.
Therefore suggesting to hold new content in favour of bug fixes is foolish.
There is a schedule to adhere to, and deadlines to meet. Not everyone has the skills or experience to fix bugs in the first place, and often times you can't discover or diagnose bugs in the game without people playing the content.
So if something like this did happen as an example, and the game is as close to bug free as is possible, the company would have to focus on nothing else but content development to gain ground - meanwhile more bugs will occur which won't get fixed, and in the long term you might very well be worse off.
I read the question more in the same vein as:
"OK, son, I understand you want to go eat your dinner in the middle of the busy street, but before you consider it further, tell me: How long should this take you?"
Keeping in mind that the poll is aimed at those arguing for it, how many voted anyways?
At this time a grand total of 8
Does anyone want me to keep a log of every small / big bug that's in this god forsaken game?
You don't need a "full stop". You need a small team of the right people who will work on QoL and bug fixes full time. The last thing you'll ever want is the art/environment folks doing bug fixes on the engine.
We've tried that, and it did'n really turn out that well.
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That's called feature request. And I would have millions of it, too.
If it were me, I would time the Great Bug Hunt for a period that included the Winter and Anniversary events. That additionally serves the purpose of maybe getting some extra server traffic to a) stress test the fixes and b) show a larger number of people that actual, meaningful change is happening, and thus increase their customer retention and "win-back" ratios. A year out from Delta Rising, there is IMO still a huge need for them to do something major to show an actual commitment to making the game better for the customer instead of simply focusing on how best to milk us for money.
Exceeding six months, realistically, even if the timing were as I suggest with some factors to mitigate the "content drought," would probably be asking too much.
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Failing that, perhaps play the game itself as it was intended to be played as opposed to staying in one spot doing one thing.
eta: I voted for 1 year. 6 Months might be enough to begin to identify the cause of the severe problems (plural, more than one), another 6 to possibly come up with a solution that actually works and isn't just a patch note footnote claiming it does when it clearly does not. Every second of my combat gameplay is an irritation, keybinds don't help much, and no it isn't my ISP/PC/Room Humidity/UV Index/Cloud Coverage/Solar Flares/Galactic Alignment/PlanetX/Godzilla.
cryptic put too many ships in game. they should try to fix some problems; rubberbanding, disconnected from server (even if they have already done a good job) and add more endgame contents.
endgame contents: this is the big problem in this game, ok if you like to be a spectator; r&d, doffing, and admiralty system are for you. But when you want to be involved in the game, you have nothing to do, except few good foundry missions, and the same stfs again and again.
STO must not be frozen, but they should put their efforts in the endgame contents. And they could find a better way to earn money than put ships in the c-store. But they prefer limited profits in a short time, than profits made over time.
give me more things to buy to modify and customize my ships and my crews, and i would open my wallet. personally i don't care about new ships/consoles/traits. I just want to have things to do with my current stuff; that's all.
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Guys, Cryptic can continue to create and release new things while also simultaneously fixing busted elements. Those are entirely different departments.
Like, if you jokers actually thought Cryptic would just stop making stuff and devoted time to nothing but bug fixes, what do you propose everyone else do? The ship artists likely don't have the expertise for bug fixing, so you assume they'd just come into work and twiddle their thumbs for several hours?
No of course not, that would be dumb.
How do you all not understand that a studio like Cryptic is split into departments for reasons?
Cripes, folks.
The people that generate content are not the ones who work on bug fixes. If there is a glitch or a bug, we need to identify it and that goes through a different system entirely than content generation. This is the equivalent of telling an artist to "fix the line code".
If anything, I'm working to help improve the speed of the bug fixes with my program to augment the process. However suggesting that we should put all other development on hold is not going to happen. That literally is illogical.
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