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Just wanna mention a few things before this thread gets completely derailed with the booster talk.
True, but neither of them have said that they quit, at least publicly. So that means they're somewhat active and shouldn't be wondering or getting annoyed when people are asking them server-related questions. Also, their lack of activity leads us to the problem where the biggest chunk of small updates cannot be released without these guys being involved. Maps, vinyls, other stuff that people want to see in game and that is already finished anyway. The last time I spoke to Quindo (around August 16th) and mentioned the event maps from the GS (these were already uploaded, just hidden), he simply told me to go bother someone else. Like who? I kept mentioning these shortly after the event was over, exactly 3 days after, when I made the fixes for the minimap routes, he was still active back then. Later people been asking me about the maps for weeks so I had to remind about it again. The august update, however, did not include any maps at all. So this tells a lot about how much shit the dev team still give about what's left of the racing community, when something this simple couldn't be done in over 2 months. At some point people will completely stop sending their stuff and then the racing aspect of NFS:SA will truly die out with no chance to return. Also, the forum is also completely fucked and the donation system is not working. Weird that this wasn't mentioned so far.
Prolly everyone has their reasons, but I think Scaftz explained it the best with his first reply - you simply can't contribute much to the project yourself in most cases. What exactly was there to test for the last two years apart from the UV stuff and modelling? I mean, it's a job for like 2 or 3 people before public testing, rest of the team will just report the same issues that's already been found. In your particular case, you even handpick the testers yourself, and during the moonbeam handling discussion you claimed that you don't care about the opinions of the others. So why would anyone bother? This leaves the team with little to nothing to test, as Orbacle's CS only got released the second time overall, and it was mostly getting polished by him on a private server through months. Also, through years, a lot of times tester team opinions were considered irrelevant/not important in general, regardless of topic. Offers from them (to help with fixing stuff) were getting ignored for no particular reason. All this can easily kill your wish to play/test/do whatever you wanted to do for the community, cause simply no one on the dev team gives a shit about your possible effort or good intentions. Remember the last big HSD discussion that had its place like 6 months ago? You've been there, you've seen it all. The team has finally made this decision, yeah, but sadly, the server's already hanging on a life support.
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As for the booster - Matt is correct and it's confirmed working for the Windows 7 and 8.1 (64-bit) if you're following the instructions that I left in the general thread. Can't say much about Windows 10, maybe it's broken there.
(06-10-2020, 22:32)MatthewChow Wrote: - Saying we have two active coders is an overstatement. Quindo is dead and Orb is barely alive.
True, but neither of them have said that they quit, at least publicly. So that means they're somewhat active and shouldn't be wondering or getting annoyed when people are asking them server-related questions. Also, their lack of activity leads us to the problem where the biggest chunk of small updates cannot be released without these guys being involved. Maps, vinyls, other stuff that people want to see in game and that is already finished anyway. The last time I spoke to Quindo (around August 16th) and mentioned the event maps from the GS (these were already uploaded, just hidden), he simply told me to go bother someone else. Like who? I kept mentioning these shortly after the event was over, exactly 3 days after, when I made the fixes for the minimap routes, he was still active back then. Later people been asking me about the maps for weeks so I had to remind about it again. The august update, however, did not include any maps at all. So this tells a lot about how much shit the dev team still give about what's left of the racing community, when something this simple couldn't be done in over 2 months. At some point people will completely stop sending their stuff and then the racing aspect of NFS:SA will truly die out with no chance to return. Also, the forum is also completely fucked and the donation system is not working. Weird that this wasn't mentioned so far.
(06-10-2020, 22:32)MatthewChow Wrote: it is already in testing phase, however, no one wants to test.
Prolly everyone has their reasons, but I think Scaftz explained it the best with his first reply - you simply can't contribute much to the project yourself in most cases. What exactly was there to test for the last two years apart from the UV stuff and modelling? I mean, it's a job for like 2 or 3 people before public testing, rest of the team will just report the same issues that's already been found. In your particular case, you even handpick the testers yourself, and during the moonbeam handling discussion you claimed that you don't care about the opinions of the others. So why would anyone bother? This leaves the team with little to nothing to test, as Orbacle's CS only got released the second time overall, and it was mostly getting polished by him on a private server through months. Also, through years, a lot of times tester team opinions were considered irrelevant/not important in general, regardless of topic. Offers from them (to help with fixing stuff) were getting ignored for no particular reason. All this can easily kill your wish to play/test/do whatever you wanted to do for the community, cause simply no one on the dev team gives a shit about your possible effort or good intentions. Remember the last big HSD discussion that had its place like 6 months ago? You've been there, you've seen it all. The team has finally made this decision, yeah, but sadly, the server's already hanging on a life support.
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As for the booster - Matt is correct and it's confirmed working for the Windows 7 and 8.1 (64-bit) if you're following the instructions that I left in the general thread. Can't say much about Windows 10, maybe it's broken there.
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