Holy Christ, I've been gone for a couple of days and the thread looks like Dresden.
SCHINE relies almost exclusively on other people not on their staff sending in bug reports, and not many people except for mostly community veterans even know where the tracker is. Even then, they only have a skeleton crew of active testers, like only 3 or 4 guys. The tester shortage is so bad that a month or two ago they made a big announcement trying to recruit some more testers, but it doesn't seem to have gotten many new people from what I have seen. I don't know the intricate details of the tester's daily routines but I imagine they probably don't do much normal gameplay due to their dedication to testing and confirming other people's bugs they send in. So I think the chances of them finding these kinds of things is somewhat low compared to regular starmade players.
Even if they did have the people, there is only so much stuff they can process at a time. Some things take more priority over others.
It would seem the injustices you perceive take priority above all else.
I don't know the order which to address this things in.
From Comr4de's anecdotes, it appears, that communication between the Schine team and the community is absolutely terrible. This is apparent in the player's council, the bridge between the community and Schine, where the latter can't or won't work with the former.
From an immediate brown townysis of the claim that the Bug Tracker is hidden, it seems immediately obvious there there is an issue all around. Schine probably couldn't deal with having a very visible tracker, being so short-handed, and having to probably deal with metric assloads of poorly written and repetitive big submissions. The way it is now, the tracker may as well not be publics lily available, is only used by an Old Guard who probably have had enough of Schine's stuff, or are the same ELIEETISTS cranking out cool stuff. Either way, the game is crippled with bugs, and exploity stuff doesn't matter when the game is arguably unplayable on the scale it's supposed to be played on/is aiming for. Either way, Schine can't or won't listen. Who knows.
The active testers's dilemma could be a nonissue if schine assisted in screening themselves, or didn't put buggy stuff in without throughly testing their own projects. It also does no justice that the very demographic of people needed are of the Old Guard caliber. However, it seems that the interest of this demographic has been throughly diluted by Schine's inability to listen. It doesn't help when schine's product quality likely fails to capture the interest of newcomers, thus failing to add to and fill an experienced demographic.
Did we mention the testers or Schine can't/won't test things throughly enough to make sure they aren't loving broken like shipyards?
Somewhere there is a problem, culturally or mechanically.
What strikes me as being odd is that you took something which was an exploit, imbalance, or otherwise legitimate game feature, and used your personal connections to remedy this injustice, true or perceived, in a sort of Don Quixote, holier-than-thou, delusional fashion, while sitting atop the moral high ground as the pope and spiritual liege to the video game world, sipping at the Blood of Christ and eating all the Eucharist wafers.
The line of thinking strikes me as odd. Any advantage an injustice, injustices a crime of grevious bodily harm, and all harm must be remedied. The basis of competition is destroyed by this sort of thinking. It stifles the creativity in the game, it stifiles the competition, the fun, one might argue. If it were truly a problem, then the community would have complained about it, not just the Pontifex of bugs and true justice.
Either way, broke ass game, broke ass community, broke ass developers. An unholy trinity of stuff gone wrong. The only winning move right now is not to play. Maybe something will change within the community. 7/10 game though, might be fun if our trifecta axis of evil gets undone.
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