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Thread: May 8: Research Cancel and Abandon City Bugs Fixed

  1. #91

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    Quote Originally Posted by rakker91 View Post
    Evony is a joke designed to milk as much money out of people as possible. As a professional software developer who mentors teams on how to build better software (i.e. I'm an expert, folks), here's what I see:

    1. They obviously offshore all development and have little oversight over that offshore development, and they probably have a small team at that. Evidenced by the poor grammar throughout the game.
    2. They're seeking to maximize revenue and pushing to do as little development as possible, which would mean a small team.
    3. They're horribly understaffed in the customer support department as evidenced by never replying to this forum and never responding to bug reports or help requests (I've had one open with no response AT ALL for over a month . . .)
    4. They have way inadequate testing, no CI, and probably no automated unit tests. You can see this by the poor grammar throughout the game and the type of bugs that show up.
    5. They aren't following a formal development process (no Agile, Waterfall, or anything else) as evidenced by their lack of predictable release cycle and lack of visibility.
    6. I'm guessing that the internal code base is terrible, otherwise, there wouldn't be an "Age II" that had nothing more than a new visual interface and a few rule tweaks. This is also evidenced by the itty bitty scope of bug fixes and their inability to really fix bugs.
    7. Their Architect sucks. Really, 42k user is all you can handle on a single server? Could you REALLY not come up with a better way to scale to handle users? They've built isolated worlds, instead of a single continuous world.
    8. Back to milking people for money--to really progress, you have to spend money.

    All of this adds up to knowing, deliberate actions on the part of management. They CHOOSE to do this (like AOL choosing to send more discs instead of improve quality).

    So, what can we learn?

    1. This game will never really improve, since the bosses don't care, they're only in it for the money.
    2. We'll never get good support. Again, the owners don't care.
    3. Giving them money only perpetuates this scam (and yes, I've given them money, way too much money. )
    4. They don't care if you quit. There's a new sucker born every day.
    5. Don't EVER go to work for them. I've worked both with and for people like this and the culture is NEVER good.

    I wouldn't be surprised if this message was blocked. That would fit right in with their culture.

    Ah well.

    Yup i agree with everything you said, especially the part about them just ripping you off. i came from another game where the Staff and Owner did nothing to improve the game. Players made suggestions and those suggestions were never implemented, even though many players agreed with them and they would have helped the game. I guess most games are like this though, draw you in and get you addicted to spending money... what a scam

  2. #92

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    Things are almost working as they're supposed to.

    I noticed bug reports is missing from my mail options.

    (zzz) How about a bit more speed in the game? (zzz)
    The 10x in beta made the game a whole lot more fun.

  3. #93

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    Speed, or lack of weeds out the impatient kids
    from the serious builders.

  4. #94

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    Thank you for the current fixes. It looks like you all are working hard at keeping Evony going in the right direction.

    However, I have to say, the problem that assails my most is the pathetic medal rate in ss4! I know not to expect a medal every attack, but it has been a while!
    That's Sir Raubhautz to you!!!

  5. #95

    Default Fixes!

    Thank you for the current fixes. It looks like you all are working hard at keeping Evony going in the right direction.

    However, I have to say, the problem that assails my most is the pathetic medal rate in ss4! I know not to expect a medal every attack, but it has been a while!
    That's Sir Raubhautz to you!!!

  6. #96

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    Admittedly I'm not as technically savey as you seem to be, but I agree. After playing beta, where the simple act of speeding up the game made a huge difference in the fun factor, it would seem the deliberate slowness of the public version is motivated by greed and to heck with players enjoyment of the game. Why keep asking for votes; for player approval when the game was launched without fixing bugs reported over and over in beta. Unfortunately it seems to be the order of the day with too many games online or otherwise. And I agree that consumers are perpetuating these practices. The saddest part: more and more technical and creative excellence gets lost along the way. Eventually, since we seem to accept lower and lower standards, we can look forward to further lowering of standards, and even crappier practices and crappier games in the future.

  7. #97

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    Can you Please tell us dawnseeker if evony plans to fix or add anything in age 1? Or is it just going to be age 2 bug fixes from now on and you plan keeping age 1 how it is forever???

  8. #98

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    All that hard work into having 0 upkeep...and gone just like that (hehe)
    Dawn if you dont mind sharing could you PM with how you manage to sort it?
    Just for own personal curiosity

  9. #99

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    There are other mojor bugs that affect us daily.. like that suppression/uprising/vanishing troops...

    please..

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    • Fixed: A bug was causing large amounts of troops to sometimes not require any food for upkeep. This has been corrected.





    You could have been a bit slower fixing that one
    Last edited by Librarus; 05-09-2010 at 04:50 AM. Reason: messed up the first few times
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