2 minutes ago, TasteTheRainbow said:

Allow different and custom game versions. Look like a professional app. Link to forum accounts. Be safe from the mouse torpedo.

Okay, point 1 is legit. I'm not interested, but it was a selling point. The others are very much personal preference on which I don't agree with you here. There is no indication that third party builders will be persecuted at this point, looks are just fine and present information conventiently, I need the third parties who provide the login anyways.

21 minutes ago, Admiral Deathrain said:

Okay, point 1 is legit. I'm not interested, but it was a selling point. The others are very much personal preference on which I don't agree with you here. There is no indication that third party builders will be persecuted at this point, looks are just fine and present information conventiently, I need the third parties who provide the login anyways.

My logins have never worked on any of them. Listen to Raithos in his recent podcast appearance. He lays it out pretty clear.

2 minutes ago, TasteTheRainbow said:

My logins have never worked on any of them. Listen to Raithos in his recent podcast appearance. He lays it out pretty clear.

Umm, I don't quite have the time to go through something like that, so no idea what you are talking about. My login works just fine and the collection feature even is fixed.

22 hours ago, LordBlades said:

Based on my experience, the cases where a top-notch team of programmers are given enough time and clear specifications, but still produce crap are exceedingly rare. As such, these guys aren't that good (FFGs fault for not hiring someone better) , or FFG hasn't given them either enough time or clarity (again FFGs fault).

Coming back to this, after seeing the 'sort by cost' feature in action, I'm convinced it s the first option: these guys just aren't that good.

6 minutes ago, LordBlades said:

Coming back to this, after seeing the 'sort by cost' feature in action, I'm convinced it s the first option: these guys just aren't that good.

Seriously. Sorting by the first digit of a potentially two digit number is just... what?!

26 minutes ago, LordBlades said:

Coming back to this, after seeing the 'sort by cost' feature in action, I'm convinced it s the first option: these guys just aren't that good.

And like I said, now they are stuck with them, because how do you think that code is going to look like? Very likely impossible to efficiently be worked on by a new third party, would be easier to just scrap the entire thing.

1 hour ago, Admiral Deathrain said:

And like I said, now they are stuck with them, because how do you think that code is going to look like? Very likely impossible to efficiently be worked on by a new third party, would be easier to just scrap the entire thing.

Sunk costs fallacy.

Easy to get caught in but yes, it probably would be easier just to scrap the entire thing.

I'd suggest that the likely issue with that would be contractual, but I would hope that the contract FFG has with whoever's developing this has a break clause in the event of charlie foxtrot.

1 hour ago, thespaceinvader said:

Seriously. Sorting by the first digit of a potentially two digit number is just... what?!

Sounds like the cost is being viewed as a string rather than a numeric field.

Seriously, this whole situation is laughable. I don't know what language they're using, but most of the ones I know of have plenty of native functions for things like parsing and simple sorting. Also, I know some developers prefer to keep away from databases, but being able to quickly search, link, filter, and sort data is precisely what SQL is made for, if they're not already using it.

23 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Sunk costs fallacy.

Easy to get caught in but yes, it probably would be easier just to scrap the entire thing.

I'd suggest that the likely issue with that would be contractual, but I would hope that the contract FFG has with whoever's developing this has a break clause in the event of charlie foxtrot.

The forums have certainly provided 800 posts of evidence for FFG to use in any sort of legal debate about providing the product.

31 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Sunk costs fallacy.

Easy to get caught in but yes, it probably would be easier just to scrap the entire thing.

I'd suggest that the likely issue with that would be contractual, but I would hope that the contract FFG has with whoever's developing this has a break clause in the event of charlie foxtrot.

They shouldn't have released it, then and just returned it to the sender. Now that it has been in the wild, the PR effect of scrapping the whole thing is difficult to evaluate, especially now that it kinda-sorta works. I do hope for FFGs sake they can at least apply some contractual penalties.

2 minutes ago, Admiral Deathrain said:

They shouldn't have released it, then and just returned it to the sender. Now that it has been in the wild, the PR effect of scrapping the whole thing is difficult to evaluate, especially now that it kinda-sorta works. I do hope for FFGs sake they can at least apply some contractual penalties.

I guess the logic was that it was better to have *something* than nothing, and honestly, they were probably right. Not releasing anything at all would have met with *utter fury*.

I was wondering if they are going to out he FAQ up on he app? It seems very basic to me.

41 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

I guess the logic was that it was better to have *something* than nothing, and honestly, they were probably right. Not releasing anything at all would have met with *utter fury*.

Also true. They had a bad judgement when picking the company they worked with and are now paying the price, no route doesn't end in a PR nightmare here.