Greetings, everyone! For the past few weeks, some of us have been discussing the bugs that remain after the Showdown update. Our goal has not been to complain, or to criticize. In general, we are taking it for granted that the devs have done the best they can, and that any remaining bugs are due to them being moved to other projects, not to a lack of care or enthusiasm. We’re all grateful for the work they have done, and for the enjoyment we’ve gotten from the game. We know it is unlikely that calls for bug fixes will be acted on. But we thought the best way to help would be to discuss, organize, and make a case for which bugs the community would most like to see fixed.
We have put together a list of 9 main bugs, and have built a poll for everyone (level 1 or higher on the forum) to assign a priority number. Please see the Support and Bug Reports forum to contribute to the poll!
Once we have a good set of votes, we’ll present this on the official support forum. Thanks for your input!
@Hubble While i appreciate your contribution with this im sorry but your poll is confusing.
Makes no sense to give numbers to prioritize only those 9 bugs.
They have to be fixed and thats it!
Even after you explained how it works, i bet some people are going to be confused and assign the same nr to different bugs.
Some of the bugs are specially important to be fixed, like the Fmtel, missing companion and disappearing rivals, those 3 are specially “nasty”.
@Mr_A1992 Those are very fair crticisms! I can try to explain my thinking a bit:
In terms of it being “only those 9 bugs”, we’ve had a discussion going in the support forum for weeks about the remaining bugs, and these 9 were the ones that rose to the top of the discussion. When the input level died down, it seemed like a good time to put the list out. As for “they have to be fixed and that’s it!” well . . . the devs have said they’re done. I suppose there’s no difference between asking the devs to fix 9 things and not getting a response, and asking them to fix ALL the bugs and not getting a response. It just seemed to me that demonstrating concerns for a few specific bugs, and backing that up with numbers from the community, might have an impact. Might just be wishful thinking on my part, but I tend to be an optimist
Regarding the poll being confusing, I’m limited in what I can do. Giving labels to the numbers would have been helpful, but that requires using a different poll style that lists each option on its own line, and that would have made the poll 10 times longer than it is now (too much scrolling). It didn’t seem ideal, so I went with the “ranked choice” poll template, and this is what we have.
I could have made a much more understandable poll using a Google Form, but that would have required everyone to visit an external link, which I didn’t want to assume people would be comfortable doing. Also, to avoid fake/duplicate entries, I would either need to collect email addresses (did not seem appropriate) or else have people enter their forum names to cross-check and that would have been more work than I would want.
I fully agree, a more elegant poll would have helped. This just seemed to be the best compromise given that we’re trying to do it within the forum. Probably academic anyway - I doubt we’re going to get more than a dozen responses.
No problem! I wanted to most important issues to rise to the top, but I also wanted everyone to feel like they had a say, and could contribute! Unfortunately, “everyone” seems to be about a dozen people. But I appreciate everyone who contributed, and I still plan to present the ranked list to the official support email, no matter how small the chance it will get any results.
