Discussion topic for post: http://www.starsonata.com/announcements/easter-2014/

Missions still broken.

the game is broken, nothing new there

I have some news for you, it might be shocking but I am going to risk my entire developer status and my job as a developer for the sake of having this post stand here as an example of how I feel about those who I think ruin this game, and what I think is needed to make this game a better place.

I am a volunteer developer and I use my own spare time on this game to try to help out as best as I can. I have done this for well over half a year, on close to a daily basis, with several hours of work most days. I try to put on a smile and do my best to help out this game to become better. Because that is what I want. I enjoy this game, and I will do anything I can to make it better, even if it means hours of work without getting payed, so that I can enjoy an hour or two of playing the game myself and see the game become overall better.

There might be flaws in this game. Nothing is or will ever be perfect. But the only solution to this is cooperation between everyone who actually wants the best for this game.

And here is my two cents about you and your treatment of this game. If you constantly try to break down this game and make it look like shit, then you are not only bringing down your own respect from the developers, you are also taking my motivation away. Do you know why so many support staff wear out? Because their motivation is destroyed by customers that don't understand that support is about working together and cooperating, even if one has a payed job as a support staff and the other is a paying customer. Having to keep up with your posts about how everything is bugged and broken and how everything the administrators and developers do is wrong is making me think that you are the type of person that will never be pleased, and that you don't want the best for this game. If you don't want the best for this game, then I sincerely think you should go away. If not I hope you can actually see your own actions as one of the factors that actually contribute to making this game worse, which is what you always complain about.

You seem to refuse to listen to the simplest of advices from administrators, because you on a principe want to disagree with us and throw shit at us. That kind of behavior is something that makes me unmotivated to work on this game, and if it was up to me I would ban you from the game and the forums so I could get my motivation back, so I could put on a smile and help out this game to make it better.

And things take time. There are things that happens outside our control, real life issues that affect the developer team, things that you should respect. Developers are human and if something happens outside our control, like a family crisis or an unexpected occurance, then the least I expect to see is players that have understanding for this. The last thing I want to see is someone sitting around talking down about the game when the developer team faces challenges outside their control. If you can't add this dimension of human understanding to your behavior, then I gently ask you to go somewhere else, because you're not helping out, you're just causing more harm.

So here is me, a volunteer developer, being fed up with you. And it isn't even "people like you" because you are pretty much the extreme and rare example. I can take a lot, I can take several hours of my spare time that I could want to spend in game or I could want to go outside for a walk, but instead I give my best shot to help out players in this game that all seem to want the best for this game, no matter how complicated an issuse is or how bad of a day some players might have. I am not going to help people who constantly throw shit about this game for the sole reason of just throwing shit. I hope you reserve your right to go somewhere else because you don't seem to want to play this game at all or help it out, you only seem to be here to talk down about the game. Today you get no smiley face from me, you get these words, and I hope you can think through your own actions and how they harm the game the next time you sit around and post more useless posts about how the game is broken and the administrators are useless. Because you're part responsible.

The easter content was added in without a patch, so that is most likely why the fix for the mission popup isn't live yet

You have my full respect for talking back, The Vert. For what it's worth, there are many players who also think some whining assholes don't add anything but a negative atmosphere, and wonder why they don't go do something else instead of bitching about how everything sucks. Only thing I disagree with is that there is more than one bitching asshole.

Thanks. Do you think it will be in the Caly patch?

Sidenote: I hardly ever post unless I deem in entirely necessary. Forgive my persistence on this particular problem. This game has come incredibly far in the years and years I've been around and it has been a great experience to be apart of. The Dev Team has gotten better and the dev cycle has gotten much shorter with content. One thing has been pretty persistent through the years, though, and that is big bugs on patches. I know it is part of development, and with the new client complete overhaul of the game it has become much easier to fix things and get it right the first time which opens many doors. I'd love to see this game get a fully paid staff and start seeing some exponential growth.

If it were up to me, I'd be telling all the devs to let loose like this, if the players a bitch- Fuckin treat them like one, it's not like they ever help.

I would like to note that this player does not represent RE, nor the opinions and ideas thereof.

he doesn't even play the game, and he's hardly a legitimate director.


TOPBUZZ FOR DIRECTOR!

For one; Devs aren't gods, they can't see every single thing that goes on and their work is never flawless.
Two; The SS Dev team is for the most part completely voluntary afaik, they have every right to just up and leave- or get angry -because people go off and be complete assholes.
Three; most game devs don't listen to suggestions at all-or worse, don't even have a suggestions forum. Be glad SS is one of few that do and kindly stfu about nerf/buffs etc, if you want to contribute, make valid points in a suggestion. devs have stated before that pretty much all suggestions are read, devs just don't have the time to respond to EVERY SINGLE POST.
Four; Multi-Accounting does not justify being a douchebag, kindly stop using it as if it does, if you sub multiple accounts good for you, that doesn't make you some kind of VIP.
Five; if you disagree with any of these points, then try developing a game yourself whilst your players bash your 'shitty' work and tell you off.

edit: Continuing point three; SS is not YOUR game just because you subscribed to it. The devs design content the way they see fit(theyre the ones making content, not you), and if something isn't meant to be a certain way but bugged and turned out stronger (or weaker) than intended, don't complain that it was a nerf (or that it's suddenly Op). If you seriously think something NEEDS to be changed, make a non-douchebag suggestion post, I guarantee they'll be more likely to listen if you don't come across like a crying child that isn't getting their way.

Combustion, what have I said about trying to be humble? Come on, add "I think...." at the start of every "fact" that you have. You're always wrong, so it would make you look less stupid if you at least add "I think" or "in my opinion" to everything you say.

I for one am active, sub several account, am full aware that there are flaws to the game, and very rarely take someone's side just to piss others off. I can be annoyed with bugs or long times to reply to my tickets, but that doesn't mean I'm anywhere near pissed off with the game, or how it is managed. I'm also annoyed with some weird characteristics of my car, my appartment, my job, my girlfriend and probably even myself, but I love them all.

It's very very very very easy to point out flaws and say "fix this!". Making it happen is a different story. You will know if you ever try to run improvement initiatives at your workplace. Come back when you've succesfully done that, and let us know how it went. (In a different thread though, please.)