Q:
[Suggestion] Improve evt scaling in SW
For someone in your office with an already configured machine and the gw2 project installed it should take only one hour or two unless the project is in such a state that you cant touch it anymore without risking to break averything.
A couple of hints from someone who is a developer, but not at anet:
If it really took two hours to write the code the first time, that would imply on the order of twenty hours of first round testing, plus four to six hours of bug fixing on my part, minimum.
It is incredibly rare that even “interaction free” code works out of the box … and this is about the opposite of interaction free — it changes something very, very core to the way event scaling is handled in GW2.
Second, not only did you make assumptions about how easy it might be to do this, which neglected the full cost of a change, you followed up by insulting the developers.
That’ll never, ever, EVER be the best way to convince someone to do anything except treat your idea with contempt because, honestly, why would anyone respond to your calling them stupid, and bad at their jobs, any other way?
I made this post with those timings precisely because i have more than 15 years in this industry. I have budies at Arkane Studio, UbiSoft, etc who regularly have to do more tricky tasks in less than that. So i am pretty gentle with anet.
(edited by Yseron.8613)
Such changes can only be made in a modest time frame if all the performance statistics needed to tune scaling in a different manner are already gathered, updated in real-time and stored in a way that allows expedient retrieval that’s suited for a real-time application. Since we don’t know if this is all in place, we can hardly hazard a guess as to how much time the requested change will take.
Precisely. That’s the part i think Cheezy took for an insult.