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Re: Support for IamPicard App
DScottHewitt wrote: »Having a public API means allowing 3rd party tools.
It's ironic to say "the tool evolved". One man was capable of improving the game via API, without even being paid. Db was not interested in a better game. So sad.
So, you DON'T believe "the tool evolved"? Because the other option is that people who were using it to CHEAT were doing so with an UNALTERED program. {Before 47 people have an angry meltdown, the developer him/herself was quoted BY A PRO-APP PLAYER as saying people had started cheating with the App.}
The tool has not "evolved", the STT program remained full of bugs/exploits and incomplete. Unfortunately DB is not interested in replicating the functions of IAP, and is not capable of fixing the bugs/exploits. They are not friendly with their customers, and it's ironic that one unpaid man working open source has done more to improve the game than the Tilting Point budget.
The problem will not go away. Look at the fate of GoTA for clues.
AMDG
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Re: Support for IamPicard App
Having a public API means allowing 3rd party tools.
It's ironic to say "the tool evolved". One man was capable of improving the game via API, without even being paid. Db was not interested in a better game. So sad.
It's ironic to say "the tool evolved". One man was capable of improving the game via API, without even being paid. Db was not interested in a better game. So sad.
AMDG
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Re: Stealth Nerf Voyages?
Looking for a simple way to understand how confirmation bias works? I recommend:
It's an Orange Ardvark! by Michael Hall, 2014
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Orange-Aardvark-Michael-Hall/dp/0062252062/ref=asc_df_0062252062/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=255976817970&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12548049460786822057&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1015249&hvtargid=aud-466360936450:pla-568772611582&psc=1
Edit: This is actually 100% serious. My kid picked it out from the library the other day and the lesson of the book is, essentially, when faced with new information, you may need to re-evaluate your preconceptions rather than forcing your preconceptions to fit within new information.
It's an Orange Ardvark! by Michael Hall, 2014
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Orange-Aardvark-Michael-Hall/dp/0062252062/ref=asc_df_0062252062/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=255976817970&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12548049460786822057&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1015249&hvtargid=aud-466360936450:pla-568772611582&psc=1
Edit: This is actually 100% serious. My kid picked it out from the library the other day and the lesson of the book is, essentially, when faced with new information, you may need to re-evaluate your preconceptions rather than forcing your preconceptions to fit within new information.
I have left the game
Dear Community,
This message is to say where I was at, to say thanks and to briefly say why I am leaving. This has been a very sad and emotional process for me but it’s a bit of a relief too.
I started playing two accounts nearly 3 years ago. I reached VIP 13 so not a big spender. I played long-term strategies to build up my fleet. I was only ever a member of two fleets. Freedom Fighters! was the first. Thank you to them for looking after me. My proudest achievement was joining Star Ship Trista, the best fleet in STTL. I held my own in the fleet which gave me a great sense of satisfaction and achievement. The people in both fleets were fantastic and I will miss them all.
The reason I am leaving is DB. About three days ago the Iampicard tool stopped working for me. That was the final straw that broke the proverbial.
For three years I put up with the poor performance of DB. Broken promises, poor communication, non-existent QC and QA. They failed to use the community, a free resource, for the benefit of the product. The poor performance for me was more frustrating because, before I retired, I had a career in software development. I know what was being done and how it should have been done. I feel that DB have no love for or pride in the product. One minor example, the sort order for selecting voyage ships should be in antimatter order with the greatest being visible. The point is that no programmer should have coded it like that, no manager should have accepted and when pointed out, it should have been fixed. My last look at Engineering a couple of days ago, I saw 4 issues regarding Convergence Day that quite simply shouldn’t have happened. Sure the demise of the IAmPicard tool was not critical to playing STTL. But it felt like it was a move from Blu-ray back to VHS. Once experienced you just can’t go back. Not caused by DB but they didn’t nurture the tool and said nothing when it went.
So my thanks to FF and SST (now recruiting). SST just maxed their starbases, the first fleet to do so I think. I would also like to thank the community for some very interesting discussions but also to the hard work of those that supported the game with their time and effort.
Cheers,
Scott and Scott Too.
Live Long and Prosper
This message is to say where I was at, to say thanks and to briefly say why I am leaving. This has been a very sad and emotional process for me but it’s a bit of a relief too.
I started playing two accounts nearly 3 years ago. I reached VIP 13 so not a big spender. I played long-term strategies to build up my fleet. I was only ever a member of two fleets. Freedom Fighters! was the first. Thank you to them for looking after me. My proudest achievement was joining Star Ship Trista, the best fleet in STTL. I held my own in the fleet which gave me a great sense of satisfaction and achievement. The people in both fleets were fantastic and I will miss them all.
The reason I am leaving is DB. About three days ago the Iampicard tool stopped working for me. That was the final straw that broke the proverbial.
For three years I put up with the poor performance of DB. Broken promises, poor communication, non-existent QC and QA. They failed to use the community, a free resource, for the benefit of the product. The poor performance for me was more frustrating because, before I retired, I had a career in software development. I know what was being done and how it should have been done. I feel that DB have no love for or pride in the product. One minor example, the sort order for selecting voyage ships should be in antimatter order with the greatest being visible. The point is that no programmer should have coded it like that, no manager should have accepted and when pointed out, it should have been fixed. My last look at Engineering a couple of days ago, I saw 4 issues regarding Convergence Day that quite simply shouldn’t have happened. Sure the demise of the IAmPicard tool was not critical to playing STTL. But it felt like it was a move from Blu-ray back to VHS. Once experienced you just can’t go back. Not caused by DB but they didn’t nurture the tool and said nothing when it went.
So my thanks to FF and SST (now recruiting). SST just maxed their starbases, the first fleet to do so I think. I would also like to thank the community for some very interesting discussions but also to the hard work of those that supported the game with their time and effort.
Cheers,
Scott and Scott Too.
Live Long and Prosper
SMM
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Re: Assimilated Troi Artwork
DavideBooks wrote: »Bare legs for a Borg drone? Some of these cards are obviously just going for the lust appeal, but this goes a bit extreem. Or is she entered as the Borg entry for the Miss Universe pageant?
I seriously thought those were some kind of metal Armour panels.......
Re: Support for IamPicard App
Thurthorad wrote: »They are not even trying to defend themselves, they are just ignoring us and hoping it blows over. I find that behaviour truly reprehensible.
The problem will not go away because the game is basically incomplete without Iampicard or a similar app.
I was a frequent user of the tool and loved having it, but let’s not overstate the matter. It was a tool of convenience, not necessity. Is it as easy to manage? No. Is it impossible? Absolutely not. I played the game just fine for most of its existence without it, and I have mostly adjusted right back to doing what I did before. Life will go on.
The problem that needs to be addressed is for similar tools what are the guidelines? DB should engage with it’s 3rd party developer community or else it risks disappearing.
The game is simple at its core (it’s just an RNG engine), but there’s a lot going on that management tools help with because the app itself has deficiencies.
This is an opportunity for DB to show some leadership and honestly and directly engage us on the subject and set some guidelines. Instead they are sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring us.
Unfortunately no one else can do it for them, so the whole kit and kaboodle is threatened by their inaction. And the game and the community will be a lot poorer for it.
