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Thread: Question for Dawnseeker on patch communication, revisited

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    Default Question for Dawnseeker on patch communication, revisited

    Quote Originally Posted by Sorien View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    We'd like to apologize for the late notice on these newest patch notes. In the future, we will always provide patch notes at least 1 day in advance, so you will be able to prepare for, and anticipate, the coming changes. These notes will be sent out via in-game mail and posted on the forums. The only exception will be emergency patches.
    So, more changes last night, obviously, and again no notice at all about what they are (not even after the fact).

    The new report notification system is one, and it's not very user friendly at all. Since you cannot clear the "army movement" flag that causes a "new report" to be indicated, then there is now no way to actually know if you have new reports or not. Quick hint... an army landing on a flat and taking it over (-1 movement report, +1 battle report) now won't show as a change in the number of "new" reports you have. This means you have to constantly actually click on the reports tab to see what's going on. Brilliant.

    Additionally for some reason now all of my cities are in a new order that doesn't make any more sense than the last order, but at least that one I was used to. With 6 cities and a ton of commotion going on it really does help to not be clicking on the wrong ones all the time, especially when you toss in the amount of browser lag the interface causes.

    So, I am now going to go off and try and guess what the hell else was changed, although in the meantime if you'd like to just let us all know it would be appreciated.
    Since it appears that the downword spiral of the tone of the thread that started with the above post caused the whole thread to be locked, I will ask again.

    Dawnseeker, could you please comment on why it looks like what you promised before wasn't actually true? Can we get a list of the changes that happened? And are we going to get some sort of changelog in the future?

    Thank you.

    -Michael

    PS - to everyone else, if any non-Evony-reps do happen to hop in here for the sole purpose of antagonizing, please simply ignore them. Thanks.

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    I am surprised Dawnseeker hasn`t said it fell under an `emergency patch`,which would be another lie anyway. I don`t think you will ever recieve a reply to this thread for Dawnseeker, bit of a joke really,but did you really expect anything more.

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    Actually I don't think that it's unreasonable to ask for an answer, no. And no, I don't think that Dawnseeker himself has set up a pattern of misinformation, aside from the assertion that we will be getting notices on the updates. He's only been here a month, after all.

    -Michael

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    Yes I agree that an answer is deserved here. But Holy Batman I missed all the rest of that stomping and that GORGEOUS post by the other forum poster. Its so beautiful I'm including it as part of my sig.

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    Anyone know if this was ever addressed elsewhere?

    -Michael

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    I have to ask. Was there another "Emegency Patch" last night? I lost a ton of goods on server 8 that I had parked in the market. Goods gone, no money recieved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nuts View Post
    I have to ask. Was there another "Emegency Patch" last night? I lost a ton of goods on server 8 that I had parked in the market. Goods gone, no money recieved.
    That sounds more like a bug. Might want to post that one here:

    http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=5962

    -Michael

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    Sorien, let's play a game.
    I'll play DS and you play yourself.
    puts on blue suit

    "Please understand Evony is still evolving at a rapid pace and we are trying our best to keep players informed of changes. That said, communications amongst and from the devs to the admins, the admins amongst themselves, admins to mods and mods among themselves sometimes get hazy and confusing.

    For example, I asked a mod to merge each of the different queen threads into one yesterday. The mod, being a rookie, took me literally and merged ALL of the queen-related threads into one thread. What I had intended was to merge the extraneous threads for individual queen candidates into one of their own threads.

    Miscommunications happen just like that.

    Now, to address your specific concern, all I can say is we are trying our best. This may not be good for some players; however, I think, overall, players accept we are very busy on our end and they will give us some leeway. I agree with you, our communications could be much better. We are working to refine this process.

    Again, please understand we do try our best. We want all of players to feel any issue they may have will be addressed as efficiently as possible. We have not been out of beta for that long now, but we have come a long way.

    We will make every effort possible to announce changes if not prior to their implementation then quickly there after.

    I know you would like specifics but this is all I can give you for now. I hope you understand and continue to enjoy playing Evony."

    takes blue suit off
    Now, Sorien, it's your turn.
    Time to flame, right?

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    Hmmm, I guess Sorien didn't like my little game.

    Yeah, yeah, double posting and whatnot.

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