Confirming, Confirmed? - how the bug reporting system hides common bugs

[Ian Doncaster]

Well, since I originally posted this, the list of "bugs with multiple dispersed reports" has grown to also include
- CZs hanging around after the war is over (or from a previous war)
- missing local news reports in some systems
- various related issues with the 3rd ring of planets
...and probably a bunch of others but since the total "confirming" count is now over 1600 it's really hard to tell

We're up to 21 "confirming" reports of skimmers crashing the game, and still none confirmed

On the bright side, 3 of the "the FSS zoom is broken" bugs have managed to reach Confirmed, as has one of the "the mapping is still broken" bugs.

As before, I think Frontier need to:
- start curating the bugs list and merging/closing duplicates
- urgently drop the confirmation threshold considerably: 2 or 3 would be plenty
- sort out the issues with the bug report tool itself which stop several players using it at all / in their preferred and well-known browser

 

[Frankymole]

I dont know why anone wonders that the new Bug-Reporting System is actively hiding everything from the playerbase. It was Pretty clear the day it was announced. On the other Hand, I think that These loads of Bugs in Elite are not manageable for a Team like Frontier has (even if it really has 100 ppl working on it ) - so they had to Change something.

That seems needlessly pessimistic - if the amount of bugs were truly beyond the capacity of a 100-person team to fix, then ED would be condemned to forever have a reputation as a game too bugged to play.