Matrix Games Forums

pz501 wrote: Mon Sep 09, 2024 4:28 pm Seems to be an endless cycle here:

1. Someone asks about the status of the patch.

2. Someone else replies "soon" just a few problems left to fix.

3. We're told it's in Matrix's hands and "testing".

4. A new problem or bug is then discovered while testing, or maybe just playing with the only publicly released version.

5. Relative silence then prevails for weeks as we wait.

6. People start getting sarcastic and making jokes about the patch (me included) and its issues.

7. Item 1 then gets repeated.

Things have been more or less been going this way for about a year (give or take) now. I'm all for getting the best possible patch out with as few issues (and hopefully none) as possible and people have really tried hard. We certainly don't want a final patch mess that needs a patch itself that it may never get, but there comes a point where somebody just has to say we've done the best we can, and things just can't be fixed without breaking something else.

Maybe the point of diminishing returns has arrived? Just my opinion based on what I've read here.

CaptBeefheart wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:33 am Actrade: When I was maybe 8 we went up to the Boundary Waters and we all canoed in with my uber-outdoorsmen Minnesota cousins, who were older, and I caught the only fish, a 3-lb. northern pike that fought like a madman. Great times. Would be very cool to return someday when they've figured out a way to mosquito-proof the place.

Cheers,
CB

Dili wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 1:48 am What options i have to not be pestered by the "Disband TF" and even worse do not allow me to click in it ?

RangerJoe wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 1:53 am

Dili wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 1:48 am What options i have to not be pestered by the "Disband TF" and even worse do not allow me to click in it ?

Don't disband TFs . . .

You can click on the TF to add or remove ships, you can remove all of the ships that way which effectively disbands the TF without pressing any keys.

Nazcatraz wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:44 pm Is the whole "Disband TF confirmation button" really necessary though? We already go through so many clicks in the game and now they want to add even more clicks to that LOL.

BBfanboy wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:20 pm

Nazcatraz wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:44 pm Is the whole "Disband TF confirmation button" really necessary though? We already go through so many clicks in the game and now they want to add even more clicks to that LOL.

Because accidental disbandment causes way more clicks and grief than one extra click to confirm the disbandment. At high resolutions the space between choices in that part of the screen is small and the mouse movement is often imprecise because of Microsoft's proportional movment (the cursor doesn't stop when your hand does).

Yaab wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:06 pm Just to remind everybody, September is the Patch Completion Awareness Month.

Dili wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:22 pm Don't know if it was on the list, but a TF base to return to should can also be another TF. That way you can send a build a mini TF from main TF that will return to the main TF.

BBfanboy wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:20 pm

Nazcatraz wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:44 pm Is the whole "Disband TF confirmation button" really necessary though? We already go through so many clicks in the game and now they want to add even more clicks to that LOL.

Because accidental disbandment causes way more clicks and grief than one extra click to confirm the disbandment. At high resolutions the space between choices in that part of the screen is small and the mouse movement is often imprecise because of Microsoft's proportional movment (the cursor doesn't stop when your hand does).

BBfanboy wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:20 pm

Nazcatraz wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:44 pm Is the whole "Disband TF confirmation button" really necessary though? We already go through so many clicks in the game and now they want to add even more clicks to that LOL.

Because accidental disbandment causes way more clicks and grief than one extra click to confirm the disbandment. At high resolutions the space between choices in that part of the screen is small and the mouse movement is often imprecise because of Microsoft's proportional movment (the cursor doesn't stop when your hand does).

Edward75 wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:44 am I suggest making a poll (push-button "Yes" or "No") with question: do you like new innovation with Disband TF? Then we will see majority who liked it. And it would be desirable to pin such a questionnaire somewhere or create a separate topic.

littleike wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:37 am

Edward75 wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:44 am I suggest making a poll (push-button "Yes" or "No") with question: do you like new innovation with Disband TF? Then we will see majority who liked it. And it would be desirable to pin such a questionnaire somewhere or create a separate topic.

I think that a good dose of common sense can avoid a poll.

The new option has been made to help mainly new or unexperienced users to make a mistake that can cost much more than a single mouse click.
The presence of the additional button in the mask has no effect for who don't want to use it.
And if someone make an error and press it it don't seem to me a dramatic result answering Y or N to the disband or not question.
So i cannot understand why eliminate an option that ca be helpful and that everyone can ignore if he wants.
I conclude saying that this is a game and asking for elimination of the option so to penalyze an inadvertite choyce from a user justifying it with "learn the lesson and pay more attention next time" seems to me not in the nature of this forum and his community always trying to help everyone.
We are not at school here.