ObsidianAnt video about odyssey delay.
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We had capacity to have 511 remote users pre-COVID, our VPN gateways didn't have the physical capacity for more so we had to...
1. Get a quote from our VAR (of course that involved 2 meetings)
2. Get it approved by Finance / CEO and then...THE BOARD (the board takes forever, they're all old people that don't understand technology.....as a multi-national technology company I do not agree with that but they have the money they make the decisions) - those old farts believe "if I don't see you working in the office then you AREN'T working" - seems to be the mindset for everybody over 60 in management)
3. Wait for the hardware to be shipped from Overseas (their excuse was inventory low due to COVID)
4. After 2 weeks we had the VPN appliances, took 1 day to pre-configure in house before shipping out to our datacenter. (Forget about disaster recovery site, that STILL doesn't have the needed hardware)
5. Three developers died from COVID so that set us back a bit but that's not relevant to the infrastructure config just a legal nightmare.
6. We had to schedule an outage timeframe to build out the new VPN VLAN and all our communication rules.
7. No testing, we went live and fixed issues on the fly. We are still having multiple DB and storage issues today.
Turns out people have crappy USA internet connections at home and when their kids and spouses are all streaming stuff and doing their own work remotely it hits performance.
All while having to stick to a buttload of regulatory compliances, -- updating inventory and documentation every step of the way.... you would be surprised how low staffed we are because "well it's all working why can't we just add more?!"
I don't know the nuances of UK regulations for technology.
This all took us about 4 months, multi billion dollar public tech company. Each company is run differently, I won't assume to know how FDev runs their company internally but every tech company I have worked for (granted I only have 16 years in the field) has been run like a startup, both public and private all for the sake of the shareholders (for private: for the business owners wallet which was the same as the company wallet....rich people are CHEAP).
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Sorry to hear about the deaths within your company, duder
Thanks, what's unfortunate is that is took all of that for my company to get serious about covid.Sorry to hear about the deaths within your company, duder
LOL, yep, all of these sound familiar. Especially the butts in seats mindset.
We had just bought a set of machines and saw the writing on the wall so everyone had a development machine. The parts we can't do a lot about are the higher ups who are like you describe in #2. Very conservative group (not a political party, just a mindset). In my case, I live in a rural area, and not having trouble with the internet here. Others, do, though.
... and yea, the increased paperwork. So much paperwork.
In our case, however, we are doing fairly well. We just started on an attempt to go agile and at our level we are all on board, so they next level up has gotten to see some faster development and are pleased. They still want to do things the old slower way, but that's a different issue.
Well I work for a software house and we transitioned in a day to work from home. We have offices in multiple countries, dev teams are small and grouped in geographies but not countries so we already had a work at home policy fully or partially for many. Everyone had a laptop. We did a Disaster recovery test when covid started to hit and it was so good they made the decision to full work at home the same day. I am in the UK, I work for a Spaniard, he works for a Dutchman who works for an American. My contacts in the day are all over the world. We are still productive and share price is rising far beyond pre covid levels. The big problem is when you need to collaboratively work through something and white board or something similar, its much more difficult and the problem scales the more parties that are involved. If you can break the software down into self contained modules for development and have clear development guidelines you can reduce the hit. However for a game that might be much tougher. I think you would have to look much closer at the design and think through philosophies and that might change what you develop and how. Tough to change part way through a development process as well.
With games a lot of stuff isn't clear until you can actually play it (when you discover the really clever thing you've done isn't actually much fun and that some minor part of the game nobody was really thinking about is the fun bit).
But I must say I don't really understand the way they've staggered releases. Perhaps there's something they've added to the planet shaders that the older consoles really struggle with.
Sounds like they've gotten to you too!Not everything in the world is a conspiracy.
At the start, they have probably had it all nicely written down on paper but things change. As to what, we'll prolly never know but it will come.
It's really not that a big a deal and rather than have a super buggy mess land on console, it should be much better. It will also have a much better chance of passing certification the more stable the base is.
Certification delays patches so the more solid it is, less delays in updates.
It's not gonna stop pc players whining why the alpha isn't perfect either
Probably best to leave them to it but read/watch so.your opinion isn't lost.
So, you've had nobody fall sick from Covid?
Interesting.
My wife has had a couple of her colleagues drop dead. I think their productivity has been somewhat affected.
Let me guess!....that's a simulation of us exploring the milky way?...no
I don't see what the issue is with ObsidianAnt doing a speculation video, offering talking points for his large community of viewers
Stu why are you so crazy for ED/FD? I always find it weird when someone, not an employee, identifies so much with a game and seems to make it their life.
What's going on?
I think you're missing the bigger picture.
It's not bad to have a hobby you're passionate about and love to spread news to other folks. I'm the same way with painting miniatures, I love to share, discuss, learn, educate and interact with other mini painters. I am lucky to have plenty of time for my hobbies and Elite is one of them.
Nothing wrong with that, some people do the same thing with sports teams, even so far as to make a fantasy team with it, post on groups/forums about their fantasy team, discuss how to make them better, player stats, etc. None of which are actual stakeholders in any of the teams
You created a new account just to ask me about Elite? How cute
Word on the street is that StuartGT is actually David Braben incognito
Tons of knights of fdev on these forums
Or their productivity was already close to zero, prior to all this...
IKR, how friggen weird is that, people who enjoy the game on the game's official forum. Don't they know they shouldn't be here
Let's face it, "white knight" is generally just a euphemism for "anyone who has the temerity to disagree with my complaints and grievances".
Yeah and did does show the very limited vocabulary (and imagination) of those ranting against the game.