Q&A Answers (Oct 06)

[nor]

Yes the demand exists for windowed mode! Please implement!
As to the general trend of the answers it seems that a lot of things are hard to do, I'd suggest hiring 5 more programmers (just dont lower the loot )

[NetStalker]

Originally Posted by AkiranBlade

I think it's down to the number of support requests they get.

OK, fair enough, so to get MA to recognize the demand, we have to spam the support queues?

Does that make any sense to anyone?

Support is already overwhelmed with legitimate issues, that we are all aware of. So to "register" our demand, we would have to make a bad situation worse by sending in support cases for feature requests?

I dont buy it.

BAH....

Community Rep = Info to developers that the community wants.

recent converstation-

Marco: -hmm, looks like the lads in the forums would like a windowed mode.-
*pokes head into next cube*
Marco: "yo development team, these lads over here want windowed mode!:
Developer1: "no problem Mr. M. we have had that developed since 1936, should be easy to turn on in the next VU, we just have not seen the demand for it"
Marco: "Great! Ill let them know that No is your answer, but ill wait another week to post it."
Developer1: "you da boss Mr. M"
Marco: "I love my job"

-meanwhile over in support-

Support Dude1: "WTFBBQ!!! with all these enhancement requests all the sudden??"
*CTRL A, DELETE*
Support Dude1: "Dont these people know we are support and not developers?"

[AkiranBlade]

Originally Posted by NetStalker

OK, fair enough, so to get MA to recognize the demand, we have to spam the support queues?

Does that make any sense to anyone?

Support is already overwhelmed with legitimate issues, that we are all aware of. So to "register" our demand, we would have to make a bad situation worse by sending in support cases for feature requests?

I dont buy it.

BAH....

Community Rep = Info to developers that the community wants.

recent converstation-

Marco: -hmm, looks like the lads in the forums would like a windowed mode.-
*pokes head into next cube*
Marco: "yo development team, these lads over here want windowed mode!:
Developer1: "no problem Mr. M. we have had that developed since 1936, should be easy to turn on in the next VU, we just have not seen the demand for it"
Marco: "Great! Ill let them know that No is your answer, but ill wait another week to post it."
Developer1: "you da boss Mr. M"
Marco: "I love my job"

-meanwhile over in support-

Support Dude1: "WTFBBQ!!! with all these enhancement requests all the sudden??"
*CTRL A, DELETE*
Support Dude1: "Dont these people know we are support and not developers?"

I'm struggling not to laugh here, I really am.

"1936"
"you da boss Mr."

Comedy.

[AkiranBlade]

Thinking about this, I think it would be a good idea to actively engage the community in providing opinion polls for new ideas and requests like this.

So idea x comes in.

Marco see's it, then creates and official post, which obtains higher reverence than other polls or a special section on each page to make it easy to see them. (Lock it for 0 discussion if needs be, but be clear in the poll post)

Then the many people that agree with the request or idea answer simply Yes or No.

No need to spam Support. Enough people post on EF to make a good estimation as to what %age of participants agree to an idea.

I shut up now before in addition to the No ATH and No Profit buttons pressed I get the no Globals button pressed on me too.

[Jakk]

Thank you for the insight, Marco! It's truly appreciated.


Regarding the 'Window mode' question, should we start a Poll thread, and leave it open for some time? Anyone want to start it? (Not me, I'm fine with the existing setup...)

[jak]

Originally Posted by AkiranBlade

I think it's down to the number of support requests they get.

LOL I WANT IT!!!

***rushes off to write a suport case***

[Konve]

Originally Posted by Jakk

Regarding the 'Window mode' question, should we start a Poll thread, and leave it open for some time? Anyone want to start it?

Somebody who can and know how to; please do this.

[Draggger]

Originally Posted by Donald

I would be very pleased to run EU in a window. Please enable this feature as soon as possible. It would make life so much easier for us.. er, for those of us who want it, that is.

Sincerely,
Donald

and for those of us at work and the boss walks in 18 seconds is to long to wait to get rid of the screen if it is windowed i can just drop it to the task bar and keep on working nods nods yea boss that was work i was doing i have no idea why you heard gun shots comming from my office

[Etopia]

PE was in windowed mode long time ago , MA forbiden it suposed for security issue that may happen...
Now we got a chef coder that say they dont know why its not windowed but they can change it if we ask for ...

For sure we ask for .... its a recurent ask we got 10 time a day...
Its very boring that i can not read forum or change my song player because MA locked keybord too (like if that change anything...).
And we learn its very easy "feature" to make ... sure it is , just a cross to add or remouve in compiler to alow or not that comand line....

As i speak about comand line , i can not see all new comand in my comand line , but i still read my password and loguin.Can we have it the other way , because that a hacker know i run PE with AA *2 or *4 i realy dont care , but that he can read my pass get on nerve a bit...

[KASSAD]

Originally Posted by Etopia

As i speak about comand line , i can not see all new comand in my comand line , but i still read my password and loguin.Can we have it the other way , because that a hacker know i run PE with AA *2 or *4 i realy dont care , but that he can read my pass get on nerve a bit...

awfully true!!
I must say it's the ONLY online "game" I've ever seen that keep the login+pass after launch it
think 'bout it MA!