Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Yes, although I've been silent on that aspect in several posts, I am concerned that the combat engine still does not appear to have been fully tested.

I will pat CA on the back for admitting the problem promptly and apparently addressing it as well, and that is sincere. However, I'm also aware of what this implies about about some of the combat engine testing. It makes me uneasy.
The level of testing that would make all of us completely happy is a practical impossibility. No company could afford to test, revamp, and re-design such an engine program and ever actually get anything produced.

Remember, this one web-site features more than 3000 people who play the game for hours, modify it, and try all sorts of twists and turns. Each member here playing for 1 hour thus generates more than one work year worth of running time for a developer. 2-3 long weekends of play thus equates more than 40 work years of "play testing." No company could afford that prior to a release.

The CA team, especially those who are using this site for feedback, seem to be pretty responsive in terms of fixes to bugs as discovered, and they have allowed modders on this site to "play with" their intellectual property to heal problems and even alter the product. I feel they've held up their end of the sales bargain rather well.

SF