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Old October 12th, 2008, 03:08 AM   #1
olepi
 
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The Minefield of Ring Development

The Ring is a minefield for development. In software design, this means that if you do everything right, it works. If you do anything wrong, who knows? You will probably crash and burn. Get off the path, and you are on your own, and by the way, we don't tell you where the path is.

Olepi's Moon was my first simplistic Ring scenario, and it works pretty well. Now I am trying some more advanced stuff, and I am dying in the minefield.

Question to the devs, or mods, is there going to be any attempt to make the Ring solid? Test out everything? fix the bugs? Do you have anyone testing and debugging the Ring?

Should I file every problem as a bug? It is pretty discouraging to talk up the unique features of the Ring in Ryzom, and then to realize that the actual code is fragile and frustrating at best. Or crap in reality.

edit: just for fun, here is an early list of bugs found in the last few days:
- players cannot enter the Ring
- Ring scenarios dont show up on the Ring Terminal
- players get zoned to some random location, instead of the Ring
- mobs wont run routes after being respawned
- mobs wont aggro after being respawned
- simple timers cannot be re-triggered after the first time

Here's a quote I got back after complaining:
"Everybody who makes Ring scenarios knows exactly what you mean. So totally random and non-intuitive when a scripted event works and when it doesn't...."

is this the software Ryzom is trying to sell???

Last edited by olepi : October 12th, 2008 at 03:38 AM.
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