SGT Coyle

Unfortunately, after reading pages four to eight of this thread, I don't think many of us trust that Ron will make good on his obligations to the player base or to ED. I've looked at Razbam's discord and Facebook page, after Ron's post, only to see the same attitudes toward the ED player base they've demonstrated these past years. Maybe to a lessor extent, but it's still there. BigNewy, NineLine, and tea_cipher (that guy is doing yeoman's work) are rapidly getting the bug section of the forum under control. Thank you. Is that going to be the plan going forward? Will ED be managing the bug section of their forums from now on? Because if the answer is "No", or "We'll see", I don't have the faith required in Ron to continue with a steady rate of progress or to not disappear off the forums again without ED's ever present over site.

I forgot to say thank you for the status report.

I would add "Resentment," but otherwise agree wholeheartedly. I accept your explanation of events and reasons for what has been done/needs to be done, but that acceptance comes at a price. I expected, and do expect to see a more detailed road map and better communication of circumstances/events/set backs (good and bad). Had you stayed present on these forums with sort of material instead of teasers for future projects, I think we would be in a better place. I look forward to seeing you and Larry on these forums on a regular basis. If you have any questions for me about my concerns or past posts, feel free to PM on these forums. Good Hunting

GIUK Line. Get me some Red Storm Rising on.

Probably because there was no progress. I posted a long list of missing key binds and they classified as "Low Pri" (understandable), "New Feature Request"(infuriating), and had status of "Working on it," for two years. I believe you would be talking about posts showing off new projects. Maybe how the pilot body is coming, while people have been clambering for fixes to old bug reports, or acknowledgement of bug reports at all. I believe that point was made several pages back. I was glad to hear you stepped down. I thought you had gotten a raw deal. You were in an impossible position. Being the middle man between an annoyed public and a company that was ignoring them. I wish you luck with whatever your doing.

I feel hurt and afraid.

This why I think a public facing bug tracker would relieve a lot tension these forums have. I for one would not have my current attitude with Razbam, if I new ED was tracking bug reports and communicating those reports to the Third Parties, customers, and It's Self. Having a closed loop, single source, transparent system of reporting would greatly reduced the work load of so many. Not to mention the perception of screaming into a black hole. if whaen I make a report about any module I would to expect that it be investegated and comunicated the result of that investigation. If valid, reported to the Deloper and put on a clock, say two weeks (See what I did there?:lol:). Not to completed, but to remind ED to nudge the Developer. ED: "What's up with this?" "You got a plan?" Developer: "Yeah, it needs animation and waiting on pilot body for VR" Then I could get that message in my inbox and know I am valued. All would be well and flowers would pick themselves.:thumbup:

Concerning the use of the forums as bug reporting system has always bothered me. It's great if you want to have a conversation about bugs/issues, but as a reporting and tracking system it is horrible. I for one, I know there are many more, would like see a change to the ticket reporting system. It should be a searchable and browse-able data base for the customer to investigate weather his/her issue has been reported. Or what's going on with a particular module. Update and add more reporting fields/filters. As it exists, there is only the bare minimum of info required. I would like to see fields as to Aircraft System/Graphics/Flight Model, ect... The feed back to the customer seems OK. I've used the ticket system only a few times for non game related gripes and was satisfied with the experience. I don't think there were game issues reportable then. But that was a long time ago. I know there is concern about the public messing around in the internal ED bug tracker, but separate public facing BT would offer a tremendous cost savings. It can't possibly cost any more in man hours than the current system, as I understand it, of scanning forums, passing to testers, testing, asking for track file, watching track file, acknowledging / reporting, ect... At least the scanning forums for bug reports can be reduced. Let alone the endless duplicate reports because of a finicky forum search function. Just food for thought. And make it official reporting platform for modules. So we don't have to go through this again. Please

Where you been? It's in "Release" and "Product Sustainment." But! If we were only a couple of days or weeks away from a manual and a long list of gripes worked off the board. A bunch of smiles to boot. Putting off release, in hind sight, would have been the wiser choice. I think all would agree. Aaaannnnddddd we get Rear Admiral David G. Farragut "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" This drama brought to you by Razbam. "Three Stooges Movies got nothin on us."

:thumbup:Ya!

There's already a "reported bug report" to assign key bindings to the knob. Be it "CW and CCW" or "Increase and Decrease", "Knob or Switch" I don't care. The topic is cosmetic. Weather it's switch or knob. Not how we inter act with it. Please what ever you people decide enable keyboard support so mouse interaction is an option not required, as it is now.

Best manual original A10C, just saying.

Agreed Thanks for taking care of that list of mine.:thumbup:

I believe they are all outstanding artists, in their own fields, but their organizational and communication skills are lacking. I spent time in their discord, and I noticed that it's a different culture. It lacks a degree of professionalism.

Ha So right my frie:thumbup:nd.

Well only ED and Razbam know the answer. If they want to let the community ponder and voice speculative theory, that's their choice. I'd rather hear from the horses mouth.

Well said

Dude I feel your pain, but what could they say to sooth your ruffled feathers? Not making light of your ruffled feathers. I have them too. I think the majority of folks here have them to some extent, but what I've read on their discord. They have little regard for you as a customer. And their employees have little regard for ED. Again, from what I've read and the interview, that's the perception I get. And it makes me uncomfortable. I'm not ever going to engage in Razbam EA. If I see good reviews from my trusted sources, I might buy a finished product.

OK, I'm tired too. What's the issue with stepping the Harrier back to EA? I know it was posted, that that was not going to happen (paraphrasing), but I'm just curious to know what the barrier is?

Maybe my attempt to illustrate the folly of ED response here was poor. I'm concerned that Razbam, when confronted with an avalanche of gripes, will understandably refute and refuse to fix gripes Ed can not back up with documentation. Isn't that a legitimate concern?

Where am I supposed to get that info? Pull it out of my but? I can do that. I'l just answer him with "Your wrong. Do it my way." Is that the how we do it? Really.

OK, unfortunately this was completely predictable. Read this thread: [thread=285562]Right MPCD SYS Rocker Switch Does Nothing[/thread] How is anyone going to be able to untangle this steaming pile of spaghetti if no one has any idea as to what anything is supposed to do. So I'm fit to be tied. ED, your plan to screen the bugs for presentation to Razbam on a silver platter is ludicrous. How in the world do you can present a Gripe to the manufacturer hasn't even provided you with the information to base your Gripe on. So how am I supposed to answer tea_cipher? I don't have any info other past experience with real Harriers( witch is limited), but my gripe makes sense to me. What is tea_cipher basing his assumption on? And if the Brightness knob controls the back lighting? Why doesn't it? Read this thread: [threadt=285568]Right MPCD ON/OFF/Brightness Knob Does Not Brighten or Dim the the MPCD Back lighting.[/thread] You tell me what document do we use. This air frame is so old there was never a digital library in the fleet to reference. Any reference to it is a fantasy. I didn't sign on to design this thing but that's what it looks like I'm being asked to do. If that's the case I voting for DCS to take over the project and Kick Razbam off DCS World. I know I need to calm down, but you weren't told to "Be patient. We're Communicating, Give us a chance". I don't think you have any idea of the scope of this mess and without that how are you going to negotiate with Ron, to get it fixed? If you want pm me about that ludicrously long list I posted please do. But for Christs sake, stop making arrangements with architect of this disaster until you have the baseline documentation in hand. Will that slow the progress? Yeah, but we've been waiting three years, I'd like think I'm going to end up with an ED Study Sim. Not some cobbled up piece of junk!

Makes you wonder what happened to =Decoy=

And then went on to ask about keybinds. Crickets

Last gripe that makes it unflyable. A Night Attack aircraft that you can't stand to fly at night. I'll admit that there have been some improvements over the six months, but the lighting was killing so bad I don't use it at night. And just so I'm not labled a hater, I know to late, the last update they adjusted the roll rate. It made the thing feel very natural. With no change to my setup, I noticed a vast improvement. And I went on their discord and told them.