And it is the lag that's bothering me the most. Because the recent spike in lag is exposing the really bad problems with the non optimized programming. I have been making a list of things that were kind of ok as long as there was no lag. And these little things all add up to make you feel like MA doesn't even play or else they would notice these things.
* If you equip a TP chip and then equip an armor set the TP chip just doesn't work. You need to re equip it after the armor resolves.
* When targeting and move to target - you can't rearrange your view until the first hit. Nor can you change your mind and select another mob - until the first hit.
* Select Next Target doesn't look around and consider the mob hitting you or the nearest mob at all only the next in some list that doesn't update.
* Loot pills don't scoop all the loot in an area only the mob you just killed. So if you died before looting the loot pill doesn't work when you return have to manually loot.
* Why can you select dead animals or your pet when trying to shoot?
* The sound of some mobs (and pets) is really incorrect and so loud and annoying you have to turn down the volume and then back up again after you leave. Gorillas, snablesnots and defense bots.
* How is it even possible that pushing on the forward key can lose focus? Happens all the time. The worst is in space if you try to chat and the thrusters stop. Barely noticeable if you happened to turn your volume down because of some other bug.
* In the crafting windows at the very bottom is a set of non working redundant forward back buttons. No purpose at all. Sure is annoying when you click on them expecting a result.
* When I browse on the AH sometimes I'll switch to another planet. Why is the next planets list on the same page number as I was on. And why can't the planets in the selection box have the same protocol for naming - why is the word planet there at all?
* In the TP selector on Arkadia why is Underground not a choice in the main list if we always have to go to the main hub there.
* Spawning a vehicle is so frustrating and annoying it should be red and tell you that you can't spawn in this position. Instead it does nothing and you have to go through the motions to try again sometimes like 20 times before it finds that magic spot - that could be fixed easily by code.
* Chat loses focus when doing anything else like opening an auction item or moving to the TP. Everytime it loses focus all the keys you press which open other items like the hof window or inventory need to be closed.
* If I drag an item from storage if i select another too quickly the other doesn't unselect and i end up moving the two items or more back. Need to redo that work.
* When hunting the dead mob makes a blue dot in the radar - if i loot and move forward the dot will stay in the window until i turn around and look - usually works to help you if you miss a loot but now your turning around for nothing - again and again.
* Challenge terminals and npcs have an exclamation point that sometimes is yellow sometimes is blue and sometimes not there at all - but doesn't connect at all with whether the mission is available or complete - just wasted code. Like on the attribute npc - why is it even there?
* And how is it ordered inside not alphabetic, not importance, not completed nothing - at least its not really different every time.
* If you open your inventory and drag an item to it before the lag resolves the order you had organized the whole thing is a mess. Again and again.
* When looking through a doorway how is it sensical that you can't target something until you have cleared the threshold. Might as well be no doorway at all.
* Need to relog on entering a planet still or who knows what is happening.
* Need to trade slowly or the trade window stops working need to close and redo and reopen the inventory because stuff disappears.
* Mobs can resolve below the paper thin surface underground can kill you and you cant see or target them.
* Can't see the status of your "space thruster" when your quad is deployed just like RL preflight checks.
* Browsing in a store that can't reside in solid computer memory is far from annoying its unusable.
* Getting stuck in a steep hill halfway down because you rezzed in before the mountain did is pretty bad.
All these nitpicky bugs are "not really broken" so they won't ever be fixed. The programmers obviously don't play at all because they wouldn't put up with even half of these bugs. I figure it has to be the engine itself that's making it hard work for them to see whats wrong.
So maybe that's all that's really needed. Programmers that are "required to play" (yes I am seeing a can of worms here) would be just as good or better than BETA testers. And someone has to do something about all this. A new engine would be a fresh start.
I still think there is a lot of goodness in this game. But now I'm too pooped out to think of any.
(complement because my brain capacity is actually even worse than a sloth).
