Socraticat Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Kraken of Unicorns... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Let's get back to the actual topic, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FleshJeb Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Yeah guys! What's the ISP of an (unlit) fart anyway? Surely someone has done the math. Hmm, gold, being a heavier molecule, would surely have a lower ISP... Anyway, back on topic (and it's the same topic I'm going to come back to in every patch thread): Software developers need to have higher standards, especially with respect to their customers' time and energy. Let's pretend KSP2 is a functional piece of software that's fit for purpose, and imagine that tens of thousands of people were affected by the launcher debacle above. That's a lot of man-hours of confusion and searching for workarounds caused by a lack of care and competence. Maybe that takes 15 minutes to resolve. In my industry we bill in 15-minute increments, because you can get a lot done in that time. As it happens, my billing rate over those 15 minutes is THE PRICE OF YOUR GAME. It's a fair chunk of change, and if I don't feel that I've made a significant and valuable contribution in that timespan, I discount that time. Let's take a more important example: A talented kid can launch the game, build a rocket, and get to the Mun (if SOI trajectory changes worked) in 15 minutes. In that time, they may develop a further intuitive understanding of the Oberth Effect by capturing at 8km instead of 20km. They may discover that a pair of overlapping spotlights makes a fine distance gauge for landing. (Redneck engineering on the Mun!) That kid's time is worth more than gold. If you frustrate and burn them out with crappy software, you're losing a piece of the future. Indulgent self-aggrandizement aside, the knowledge that your users' time has tangible worth is maybe a standard that software developers want to calibrate themselves towards, instead of constantly saying, "Ooops sowwwy <cuteface>". What you do MATTERS--Be harder on yourselves or go home. (By way of comparison) To the corporate MBAs at Take Two: You're wasting oxygen that other people could be breathing. Kindly stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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