Stealth-Nerf of Airship

[ducki]

Dang, really, I mean I wouldn't put it past them, but still, why?

 

[Rornar]

I actually noticed this too.

I went down to go to the farshifter to see if I could travel off of him and it turns out that every single amenity on my maxed out guild airship had been reset as well.

Everything was working perfectly fine and in its proper place last night at around 10pm CST so I assume it was due to the patch today.

 

[Sheikra]

The Captain's options are still there, they are just below the bottom of the chat window box. If you use your keyboard arrow keys you can move the selector down off the bottom of the options and then hit enter to select the Farshifter's options. Then the second dialog window appears as normal.

Very clever. Glad to hear it was just a mistake, not intentional nerf. I apologize for the erroneous assumption.

 

[Andu Indorin]

Seems as if lots and lots of bugs popped up today. Funny bugs at that! The focus orb bug is particularly "odd."

 

[Misadventure]

From the airship and there's a teleport station in the grove.

Wait, grove got teleporter to airship?

 

[J1NG]

Wait, grove got teleporter to airship?

New addition in this latest update.

J1NG

 

[Eoin]

So a developer or content designer added the teleport in the grove and to the menus, ran DDO in their local dev environment, validated the teleport work, validated the dialogue boxes, thought everything looked good, chef kiss, and checked in the change.

Pretty code reviews aren't happening unless a change is ground breaking, so after check in th build went to QA. The QA person read the change log and put together their test case based on that. They ran DDO in their UAT environment, validated the teleport work, validated the dialogue boxes, thought everything looked good, chef kiss, and green lit the build for production.

I'm assuming the developer and QA person that let this through to production are the same ones that let IceFlenser (missing a space) into the monster manual to production? I'm not expecting pixel perfect attention to detail, but if you are missing the obvious stuff...

 

[kmoustakas]

So... the airship navigator no longer takes you to the 2nd page of desintations (GH, orchard, sands, etc.)? Why sneak nerf this during maintenance :(

"Are your customers a joke to you?"

"Yes. Yes they are"

lol

 

[Wanfanel]

The teleporter is still there, just you needed navigate with arrows key, window is does not fit all options

 

[Talam]

This is a bug, we will work to correct it.

Thank you.

 

[Mindos]

validated the teleport work, validated the dialogue boxes, thought everything looked good, chef kiss, and green lit the build for production.

 

[rabidfox]

If an airship doesn't have a farshifter then someone probably wouldn't notice this bug. So I think we should hold a fundraiser to buy the QA department an airship with that amenity.

(It could easily be as simple as tester X not having one on their airship and thus it got missed)

 

[Genkiba]

Love how every bug is assumed to be a nerf.

 

[Smokewolf]

So... the airship navigator no longer takes you to the 2nd page of desintations (GH, orchard, sands, etc.)? Why sneak nerf this during maintenance :(

Maybe the Airship has a leak, and thus less air.

 

[Smokewolf]

Love how every bug is assumed to be a nerf.

Well you know that us veteran players have seen such situations come and go. Thus, until proven otherwise, it a nerf.

Besides, the Dev's could just be trying out a "stealth" change on the fly, to see how we'd take to it. Stranger things have happened before.

 

[Archaic]

You could just Tumble there you know?

 

[Ahpuch]

If an airship doesn't have a farshifter then someone probably wouldn't notice this bug. So I think we should hold a fundraiser to buy the QA department an airship with that amenity.

(It could easily be as simple as tester X not having one on their airship and thus it got missed)

Splendid idea. Lets all auction off our Elixir's of Discovery and send the proceeds to the devs for this purpose.

 

[Kimbere]

So a developer or content designer added the teleport in the grove and to the menus, ran DDO in their local dev environment, validated the teleport work, validated the dialogue boxes, thought everything looked good, chef kiss, and checked in the change.

Pretty code reviews aren't happening unless a change is ground breaking, so after check in th build went to QA. The QA person read the change log and put together their test case based on that. They ran DDO in their UAT environment, validated the teleport work, validated the dialogue boxes, thought everything looked good, chef kiss, and green lit the build for production.

I'm assuming the developer and QA person that let this through to production are the same ones that let IceFlenser (missing a space) into the monster manual to production? I'm not expecting pixel perfect attention to detail, but if you are missing the obvious stuff...

Has SSG done anything lately that would lead you to assume or even believe based on blind faith they have proper QA procedures? For a long time now, it is more surprising when things they list in updates as changed or fixed beyond simple typos actually work right the first time.

We were talking about this UI menu bug for the transporter NPCs in guild chat last night. The problem was immediately obvious to anyone using transporter NPCs on the airship, which tells us that the dev doing the work and/or the QA personnel (if any exist) didn't even bother to do that bare minimum amount of verification.

 

[Misadventure]

New addition in this latest update.

J1NG

Finally, I been saying for so long grove got so many portals one extra teleporter portal wont hurt.

 

[Zvdegor]

The Captain's options are still there, they are just below the bottom of the chat window box. If you use your keyboard arrow keys you can move the selector down off the bottom of the options and then hit enter to select the Farshifter's options. Then the second dialog window appears as normal.

Keyboard arrows do nothing for me at all. Cant go down.