daniel3ub wrote:What's the point in trying to send bug reports and suggestions, if the developers are not polite and don't really care about user's suggestions?
See it:
"FS#1939 - Truck station at NW of Refinery acepts nothing
User who did this: - Jean-Francois Claeys (Belugas)
Reason for closing: - Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: - It will stay as it is. It is not
a bug, it is by design. Period. You don't like it? Create a grf.
More information can be found at the following URL:
http://bugs.openttd.org/task/1939"
What's the point in trying to explain you that it is not a bug and why it is not a bug when you don't even want to consider the possibility of what we're trying to tell you?
The game has some rules established since the original one.
YOU do not like those rules, or you think they are nor fair, it is
YOUR decision and
YOUR judgment. Everybody feels good about them,
the tile acceptance stuff is published and known. Reasons on why we do not want them changed have been given to you :
Comment by Remko Bijker (Rubidium) - Saturday, 19 April 2008, 12:52AM wrote:
More reasons to not 'fix' this:
- in TTD only the 'tower' accepts oil, you can check that and I've just rechecked it.
- changing it means breaking NewGRFs.
- you can fix it if you like by a NewGRF.
- it has always behaved in the way it does now.
- (Open)TTD does not realistically model reality.
- it breaks savegames unrecoverably because there will be stations that do not accept oil anymore when they previously did.
You do not seems to think those reasons are good enough. YOUR problem. Not ours
daniel3ub wrote:At least when it comes to the TTDPatch forum, i've never been treated like that.
Looking at your ONLY TWO previous posts in TTDP, not controversial at all, i can believe you were not treated this way. But here, it is a very different story.
daniel3ub wrote:The game has a design fail. I'm trying to help pointing this fail. At least be polite.
Who is this guy, anyway? OpenTTD's Owner?
I'm not OpenTTD owner. I'm one of the devs, who spent (personally) the last 2 years working on making the game better, on personal free time and most precisely a full year doing the newindustries thing.
Now, imagine how pissed off i can be when, even after explaining why we will not do it, a user with so very few experience of the game comes in and basically says that the way it is done is wrong just because HE THINKS it is? SO does it means that all the VERY numerous people who played and programmed the game (in general : TTD, TTDPatch, OpenTTD) are basically too stupid not to have seen the famous flaw YOU have discovered ??
It may very well be on your point of view, that it is a flaw. I do not refute that. But since WE are the ones dealing with the code, since WE are the ones who will have to defend ANY modifications been done, I think we deserve the rights to draw a line and say NO.
Suggestions are indeed helpful. Bugs reports are indeed required in order for the game to go on. But what a user sees as a bug is not necessarily a real one. And thus is NOT a bug. This is the case, where an impression is held high as a conviction. Check original game. Check TTDPatch. Check with other users. A design is a design. There is no flaw here. It is one of the rules of the game. That's it.
Now... have I been impolite? I may have been direct. But not impolite. Didn't called you names nor anything. Just that i cut the conversation, as it was meaningless.
. In both cases the patch I made was put in trunk / NoAi branch within 2 days. So in my opinion they really do care, and are very willing to listen to remarks, as long as you explain very clearly what the problem is, and how it can be solved.
