^ I'm glad we can keep it calm and collective here. Too many feelings get hurt because people want to take these debates too seriously. Let us continue to keep it civil, ladies and gentlemen!
The Staggered Development extra time fallacy
- Thread starter FZD
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This is all correct. The one thing that staggered development attempts to fix is the amount of time you get to work on a feature. I know personaly when smashing bugs in service packs 3 months is fine. But when implementing new features having more time available to work out the issues is always a good thing. Of course, you can also spend far too long polishing and handling every edge case that has a very low probability of occurring instead of moving on and implementing new features. So there is a degree of trade-off. The other aspect is that some features require a lot of background coding to be completed before they can be visibly seen in the game. Where future iterations on the feature have huge impact on the player population the first iteration which required far more effort is underwhelming to the players due to it back ending services and engine modifications. If anyone's ever watched a house being constructed has seen stages of the house that seems to drag on for weeks and months then suddenly the house seems to transform overnight especially when it goes from framing to sheetrock. The same happens with code with 4 months spent on parts of the code that is needed but has no user interface and so is never seen. Then spend the last 2 months flushing out the user experience and tweaks to make it special.
The biggest issue with this is you often box yourself into a corner with game features as you do not have the engine to support anything else. Its the reason why Star Citizen is so far behind schedule was that they picked an engine which would have worked well for the initial concept and in fact would have worked will with your suggestion. But it does not work well with the current scope of the MMO SC has become. So a lot of the initial work ended up being scrapped and a lot of time has been in reworking the game engine to work with the new vision. It honestly wasn't until 3.0 that we started to see the true game potential for ourselves and its still hamstrung by needing server side object container streaming and server mesh.
No!^ I'm glad we can keep it calm and collective here. Too many feelings get hurt because people want to take these debates too seriously. Let us continue to keep it civil, ladies and gentlemen!
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I wanted to offer a more intuitive explanation as to how staggered development might help reducing the developer workload. Imagine star citizen was a house. A house with only 1 storey needs 3 months to be built, and a 2 storey house can be build in 6 months. The 3 month release cycle however means developers need to have a finished product, so what they need to do is build a 1 storey house complete with roof and everything in the first three months and then use the following three months to remove the roof, construct the second floor and rebuild the roof. Staggered development removes the need for constructing and removing that temporary roof.
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Well here's some stuff about your mum/s!
What is your unhealthy fascination with our mum's? Is it because your wife is still banning you?
I didn't even know Mrs 'BobFace was a mod here?!
Haven't been banned yet though.
As tempting as it is to turn this into a creepy “show us yer mum” thread...
Only at TEST could we go from the benefits and drawbacks of staggered development to threatening to show each other our mums.
Randomness, for the GLORY of TEST!