im quitting SFS
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1- You were kindly asked to provide a screenshot and a reasonable description to explain what your part pack was (supposing it was yours...). You refused to provide them, and only then I deleted your post. This was your choice.
2- Nobody but you has ever been needed to be told to provide those elements when posting a mod or a custom part pack. It looks natural to anybody but you.
3- How is that related to this discussion?
Exactly. Thanks.
2- Nobody but you has ever been needed to be told to provide those elements when posting a mod or a custom part pack. It looks natural to anybody but you.
3- How is that related to this discussion?
Exactly. Thanks.
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I also regret that they don't communicate more, I guess they have their reasons, but I think it's abusive to consider it a lack if respect.
In this case in particular, I was answering to progamer00120 that considered a bugfix as a dumb update, and demanded SFS 1.6 to be released now, as if it was just a matter of pressing a button.
I can testify as a programmer myself that it takes time: I'm still working on ANAIS right now. For my defense I have little time to spend on it, but it's been months I haven't released anything and made any communication about it. Yet, those who are expecting an awesome release would be disappointed: I'm mostly working on fixing a few bugs, improving the behaviour of the algorithm, and optimizing it. Most players don't care about it, but still, I guess people are happy to have a reliable navigation algorithm that doesn't engulf all the CPU resources.
This is what makes me say that optimization is a work that people notice when it's not done.
The problem is probably different regarding SFS, but an update isn't just about "add water", "add astronauts", "add flags and rocks"... There are many problems that arise. For example if you add water to planets, you'll certainly have to modify the planet files format while making sure that you don't break all existing planet packs. We are not even talking about implementing buoyancy, water physics and so on, it's just about not breaking what already exists. There are many questions like this that players don't think about at first.
Again, I understand the criticism about the lack of communication, but those who think that Stef is just lazy really have no idea about what being a developer means.
For the little story, I remember a guy that claimed on the Steam discussions pages that Stef was just lazy, that himself has been a dev since 2016 and that the modders could release an update in no time if they wanted. I basically answered him "ok, show us since you're a dev". I'm still waiting
In this case in particular, I was answering to progamer00120 that considered a bugfix as a dumb update, and demanded SFS 1.6 to be released now, as if it was just a matter of pressing a button.
I can testify as a programmer myself that it takes time: I'm still working on ANAIS right now. For my defense I have little time to spend on it, but it's been months I haven't released anything and made any communication about it. Yet, those who are expecting an awesome release would be disappointed: I'm mostly working on fixing a few bugs, improving the behaviour of the algorithm, and optimizing it. Most players don't care about it, but still, I guess people are happy to have a reliable navigation algorithm that doesn't engulf all the CPU resources.
This is what makes me say that optimization is a work that people notice when it's not done.
The problem is probably different regarding SFS, but an update isn't just about "add water", "add astronauts", "add flags and rocks"... There are many problems that arise. For example if you add water to planets, you'll certainly have to modify the planet files format while making sure that you don't break all existing planet packs. We are not even talking about implementing buoyancy, water physics and so on, it's just about not breaking what already exists. There are many questions like this that players don't think about at first.
Again, I understand the criticism about the lack of communication, but those who think that Stef is just lazy really have no idea about what being a developer means.
For the little story, I remember a guy that claimed on the Steam discussions pages that Stef was just lazy, that himself has been a dev since 2016 and that the modders could release an update in no time if they wanted. I basically answered him "ok, show us since you're a dev". I'm still waiting
