So, do you think carriers would have been delayed regardless, or is it down to the open letter?

[Watcher]

My question to FD would be if the New Era uses the bug fixed branch of the game (i.e. the current build), or if its a 'new' branch built to cope with Legs, atmospheres etc. If its the latter, what can be shared if New Era is still in flux? Conspiracy theorists might then suggest FCs are underbaked and bugs offer a reprieve in the 'Old Era' branch, with the Letter being a good excuse. My concern is that if New Era is an independent branch its that which needs testing to the max, and not the current build which would in theory have a year of operation left to run.

I would tend to assume that the maintenance team changes are relatively small and get integrated over to the main team on a fairly regular basis - if not they are in for a whole lot of fun come the end of next year.

Presumably this gets harder the further the main team move on but probably better than the alternative. A lot of this may come down to just how modular stuff is, no idea.

 

[Lee Wheeler]

I code for a living and have never in my entire 35 years in the job created as many issues as Septembers update did. Perhaps 30% of my time is spent coding the other is in testing, rolling out and retesting. My vote would be for Quality bug free code and less updates.

 

[sollisb]

I code for a living and have never in my entire 35 years in the job created as many issues as Septembers update did. Perhaps 30% of my time is spent coding the other is in testing, rolling out and retesting. My vote would be for Quality bug free code and less updates.

CI/CD is just another in the list of thing Frontier know nothing about.

if Cobra is developed by the same peeps developing Elite, a lot would be explained

 

[Shir]

There is a threshold of bugs that when crossed makes people lose interest in a game, and I think for a number of players the September update crossed that threshold, so possibly Frontier understood they better work on it..