Stability Question

[bovi]

With a lot of new features there are bound to be new bugs too, including CTD ones. But we've had quite a few busy testers to find the common problems, and came to the point where we would have to release to find the rest.

For instance, the apocalyptic disasters probably never hit in any of the games of our 10-15 testers, but when over 10000 people play, that's when these rare occurrences happen. About the Arsé oppida crash, that is among the common problems, but unfortunately we didn't get that into the build until very late in the process, so the testers didn't have the time to find it until the release.

According to the numerous unresolved CTD issues there are a couple more things to weed out though. I'm more surprised at the huge number of people having trouble getting a working installation. All our beta testers and team members have got it working, so I didn't expect this rush.

As a perhaps useful tidbit of information, I'll take the opportunity to post my priority list when helping out:

1.Answering posts that can be helped with merely typing a tip, or where I ask for more information in order to begin investigation, or to help it
2.Installation problems
3.Reading the rest of the posts in the help forum in case there is something more belonging to the above categories
4.Stuff that requires quick investigation to help
5.The unresolved CTD report which is least recently posted in
6.CTD reports that are more recently posted in

The reason for the general order is a SJF (Shortest Job First) algorithm, while the reason for the order of the bottom two is because that's the way the forum sorts the personal stickies. Yes, it means that once someone posts in his thread the report is put in the bottom of my pile. Then again, it just might be that I've forgotten to sticky the thread, so you never know.