Sarah moved from current project, update no longer coming?

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Parmo

Parmo
vonDutch said:
You clearly have no clue about development. A dev builds what design tells him to build. All a dev does is hammering functional specifications into code. Its bonkers that a dev takes notes from the public and merge that in 'their' code. When I would have done that in any of the 10+ companies I've coded for in me 20 years of being a code slave, I would have been dragged to the street and shot on the spot.
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A coder gets a design?!!!!!! A coder gets functional specs?!!!
You lucky bar stud!
I've been a coder since 1997, in 10 companies and in only 2 did I see specs, designs and in only 1 did I see UML being used. In one of them the specs were totally ignored from the start.
Unless you meant design as in a role not an artefact.
Oh, role, a UML bit of jargon there.:)
I learnt OCL you know in the vain hope I might one day use it.:(
Object Constraint Language.
I also learnt the Vienna Development method years ago. Something akin to Z for specification.
I had high hopes for my career in IT once! Sniff.:S
 

Quineloe

Quineloe
Zac Antonaci said:
Hey guys, I just wanted to jump on this thread and just give a really quick reply.

It’s very common in development that people work on different elements of the game in order to best support the game and the community as a whole.

AI is an area we’re actively working on but how and when those updates happen may flex slightly based on the needs of the game overall.

Thanks,

Zac
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We're aware of that. This thread is a thousand replies because of the angry tweets from last night. Those are not that common. It would be nice of you to acknowledge SJA is even working on ED at this point and not Planet Rollercoaster.
 

Monk

Monk
Parmo said:
A coder gets a design?!!!!!! A coder gets functional specs?!!!
You lucky bar stud!
I've been a coder since 1997, in 10 companies and in only 2 did I see specs, designs and in only 1 did I see UML being used. In one of them the specs were totally ignored from the start.
Unless you meant design as in a role not an artefact.
Oh, role, a UML bit of jargon there.:)
I learnt OCL you know in the vain hope I might one day use it.:(
Object Constraint Language.
I also learnt the Vienna Development method years ago. Something akin to Z for specification.
I had high hopes for my career in IT once! Sniff.:S
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As a stickler for process, and as a business/application analsyt, it shocks me that places still expect devs to work without designs, functional specs and UML. It might be more work for us analysts but it always results in better code built faster. And when there is a bug, which I'm sure your code is perfect ;), having all that makes fixing things so much easier. I feel for you, what are these places thinking
 

timbow

timbow
tifosi said:
Not wanting to start WW3 (although I think we are well onto far higher numbers on this forum), I saw mention of the "Drew Issue" a few times on this thread. Can some kind soul post a link to what I've missed?
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I call troll. Everyone knows what the Drew issue is, you're just trying to inflame this thread even further. I would report you to the mods, but I can't be bothered, I'm just going to quit the game instead.
 

Adept

Adept
I don't have time to read through this megathread at the time. Can somebody do a summery for me. I love SJA:s work on the game, what happened?
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Tarman said:
I learned to run multiple relevant timezones on my comp clock widgets after years herding zombies from across the world in Urban Dead. The joys of unevenly-applied Daylight Savings sometimes made it a minigame in its own right. UTC is right under my local even now. Very good to be aware of what time it is at any given place on the planet when you're dealing with an international grouping.
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I run everything on Zulu. :)
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Titus Balls said:
Do you expect him to hand write a love letter to sooth your broken emotions, and come over and give you a kiss on the cheek and tell you it'll be alright?
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No, but I expected a little more warmth considering that the thread on the whole has been about a living, breathing person (unlike their galaxy .. bum bum bum tsh! :D :D)
 
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timbow

timbow
Adept said:
I don't have time to read through this megathread at the time. Can somebody do a summery for me. I love SJA:s work on the game, what happened?
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FDEV reprioritised SJAs time onto something else, forum explodes, conspiracy theorists go into overdrive.

Oh, and apparently everyone is a dev and can do it better than FDEV.
 
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Zac Antonaci said:
Hey guys, I just wanted to jump on this thread and just give a really quick reply.

It’s very common in development that people work on different elements of the game in order to best support the game and the community as a whole.

AI is an area we’re actively working on but how and when those updates happen may flex slightly based on the needs of the game overall.

Thanks,

Zac
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It's all good guys we just need more devs for the early access console version!


Expected maximum damage control, came home from work, tadaaaa maximum damage control is here.






really sad FD ;__;
 
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Parmo

Parmo
Adept said:
I don't have time to read through this megathread at the time. Can somebody do a summery for me. I love SJA:s work on the game, what happened?
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Someone finds SJA tweet that she's being moved off her AI work and posts on this forum to that effect.
And then:
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:)
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Quineloe said:
I seriously hope that didn't happen. If I were in her position, and moved away from the game I loved to work on to a completely different game by the suits for suit reasons (ie money), I'd be at a doctor's office first thing next morning, tell him how much overtime I've put in the last few months and get my half year sick leave due to burnout (may not work in the United States).
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Already been tried. :(
 

Samosa

Samosa
Monk said:
As a stickler for process, and as a business/application analsyt, it shocks me that places still expect devs to work without designs, functional specs and UML. It might be more work for us analysts but it always results in better code built faster. And when there is a bug, which I'm sure your code is perfect ;), having all that makes fixing things so much easier. I feel for you, what are these places thinking
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What's more shocking is working for a company that insisted that all their employees be ITIL certified by the end of last year, for all the obvious ITIL reasons. Despite that, the highest of high management still scribbles vague diagrams on a whiteboard, suggests that their developer take a picture of said diagrams with their iPhone, and further suggests that their developer has everything they need in order to go forth and create the executive, internal, and public facing portals, backend code and database design described in said scribble.

I'm not saying that sort of thing happens to me, but sometimes that sort of thing happens to me!
 

TruffleSnout

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Monk said:
As a stickler for process, and as a business/application analsyt, it shocks me that places still expect devs to work without designs, functional specs and UML. It might be more work for us analysts but it always results in better code built faster. And when there is a bug, which I'm sure your code is perfect ;), having all that makes fixing things so much easier. I feel for you, what are these places thinking
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Everyone and their brother is doing "Agile" now. When you do "Agile" project management, there is no documentation. There is a 3x5 index card where a user describes in very broad terms what feature they want, then that is given to a dev, and it has to be coded/tested/deployed in 5 business days, because that's the length of the sprint.

note: "Agile" project management is not in anyway related to Agile project management. Most companies opt for "Agile", however.
 
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