Having slept, I wish to double down on my outrage yesterday in my debug logs.
"2018 is bug fix year" is about the biggest joke Mr. Braben's company has brought on since 1993.
We are still left with numerous (!) bugs that were introduced in 2018, some of them well known "ghosts from the past" as in revived-bugs-from-older-versions.
- Wing Nav Lock still places ships far out sometimes, jeopardizing safety. One can NOT escort a trader with being 100% sure a nav lock will work.
- NPC blocking landing pads - assigned landing pads - making it neccessary to undock, revoke, applay again, redock. In CUTTERs or other big stuff.
- NPC blocking landing pads on outposts - making it neccessary to switch modes or at least restart. This is not only a catastrophe in terms of immersion, it's annoying as hell
- Adjucation, Matchmaker... killing connections
- Instances - sometimes full, sometimes empty. WITHOUT changing any relevant factors. Same ship, same place, same action, not talking.
I love Elite. I have loved it and I will most propably keep on doing so. Still, there is NO reason to praise a company for "fast fixes" that is so unbelievably ignorant about their immature code.
FDev had embarassing moments yet: showing off Elite and seeing it crash while observed by countless people. Still, they don't learn.
Whatever FDev brings up in terms of "new product in Q1/19"... the product, the player base and the company's reputation would benefit big time from some REAL bug fix team. One that doesn't brag about "[n] thousand bugs fixed" but one that doesn't introduce another thousand issues each update. This is abysmal performance on a wonderful product :-(