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Elemental – Beta 1Z4 is coming

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Elemental – Beta 1Z4 is coming

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While the vast majority of users who actually have Beta 1Z voted for moving forward (the publicly displayed poll isn’t designed to filter based on downloads but rather whether they have an Impulse account) we believe another Beta 1 is still in order.

There are some Windows XP issues we want to nail down in particular with regards to stability and memory and there were a bunch of fixes that got finished that didn’t get checked in in time for beta 1Z3.

We are probably going to dispense with the polling unless I can get IT to spend time to filter out users who don’t actually have the beta (incidentally, the votes include the user ID and the IP address for the guy who put in 11 no votes with the same IP with different accounts, tsk tsk). 

The forum discussions alone were enough to convince me that one additional beta 1 build made sense.

It IS important, however, that anyone who experiences problems report them. Don’t assume that we know about them. Read this post.

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Reply #51 from Elemental Forums Top

They never said it would be the Thursday (although usually it is their prefered day slot for it). I suppose that they have had an input overflow from the factions/race threads.

Reply #52 from Elemental Forums Top

They never said it would be THIS week ;)

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Reply #53 from Elemental Forums Top

I know, I know....:P

Reply #54 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Peace, reply 52
They never said it would be THIS week
Or THIS millennium...8O

Reply #55 from Elemental Forums Top

Probably next week.

Reply #56 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks for the info Froggie, and sorry for my impatience...O:)

Reply #57 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 55
Probably next week.

Folks who've never worked in or around software development probably have no real appreciation of how much respect you deserve for the "Probably" there. I admire it greatly.

Reply #58 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 55
Probably next week.

Cool. Back to trying to hit the 500 Turn mark that will re-load. ;)

 

 

Reply #59 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GW, reply 57

Folks who've never worked in or around software development probably have no real appreciation of how much respect you deserve for the "Probably" there. I admire it greatly.

Actually I think that pretty much applies to almost everything. People tend to under estimate how much time and effort it takes to do something until they actually do it themselves. This goes for a lot of things as I've met a lot of people who brush things off as shouldn't take that long to do X Task and then when they actually do it they have some elaborate story of why it took them so much longer then they thought/said it would. And yet rarely extend the same courtesy to someone else when that person doesn't finish Y Task in the time they think it should be completed despite having no experience in doing Y Task themselves.

I just think it's a bit more obvious when it comes to software because as UI becomes simpler and user friendly people think oh you should just be able to push a few buttons and get it to do this. So more and more people think of themselves as "tech savy" and even the media talks about how kids today are more tech savy. But from what I've seen most of them are only tech savy up to a very shallow point of knowing how to "use" the devices that are designed to be super user friendly. Yet they don't realize how much went into making it so they could just push a few buttons to make it do that.

Just like most people don't realize all that went into making their cars work so that you could push two/three pedals, use a gear shift, turn a wheel, and etc. to move something that wieghs about a ton, depending on make and model. Todays cars have so much electronics in them even though not much has changed from the users point of view a ton of things have under the hood. You can tell this all the time when you hear people complain about car repair cost and comment "How hard is it to replace a single part?". And that's how the tech industry is in general with people on the outside looking in saying, "How hard could it to do that?".