As someone who writes software for a living, I can tell you that getting "more" bug reports during an alpha stage is not always helpful. If you have, say, 10000 testers dumping in reports, you have to pay someone to properly go through those reports and distill them into something that someone can actually work with. For more meager budgets...for instance people working for, say, nothing...10000 testers isn't more helpful than 100.
As I mentioned before, they are doing testing in a controlled environment. Using Streamers AND their audiences, to test out many things and alternative methodologies. By controlling the environment (AKA on a secure server) you don't get the creep-in of other mods or players that want to tweak things to their own tastes. The main problem with a general release and Open Beta is that you lose all control of the environment. The way it runs now, there are frequent updates where the server is shut down, updated, restarted. Open Beta testers are usually too busy having fun to focus on keeping the build up-to-date. (VERY guilty of this myself)
Just because you want modded 1.8 isn't going to make it stable any faster. Most of the mod dev just started updating to 1.8 and it is no where near close to being able to release a good pack the likes of which we are used to. Dead, ROFL Bacon is having his team work on 2.5 Skyfactory with 3 no where close to future release. You are pretty .much stuck with 1.7 till more get updated and stable. All those videos you talk about don't show the more then 3 times that behide the cam with them working with both the mod dev and the pack devs to get it out ASAP. I'd they were to release 1.8 packs right now they would be crap so the wait until it is of a quality they are used to putting out.
.It is usually considered distasteful to create a post with just "+1" in it and referring to another post. So I will pretend I was making this post for a different reason.
I have to agree with that idea, at least as far as it would be reasonable in regards to issues we in the general public may or may not have knowledge of. A standing task list, not locked down, so it can be updated as the dynamics of development may sometimes reveal unexpected issues, or even solve several problems at once by discovering a deeper root cause. It would be a kind of short form method of letting us all know how things are going, but not require a whole new post or some such thing. A Gdoc or spreadsheet with the primary items holding off the release would be both easy to update, and possibly minimize all the antsy overeager anticipation so many of us are feeling by having a place to check.Just created an account, been playing FTB since FTB Ultimate was in beta in 1.4.7. Just wanted to send a thank you to all of the dev team and streamers that have been keeping us up to date on the skyblock progress. I for one cannot wait to start a server for the skyblock myself. I heard on one of the streams that one of the issues still is the AE2 presses and that there was no way to currently get them except go to the starting area chest. These are the types of bugs / issues that need to be resolved before release and I understand that. Maybe set up a way in the assembly table + some obscene amount of RF to create each type of press for the inscriber, just a thought. I know I am now asking a lot, but is there a way you could get overgrowth seeds to have a chance to drop out of the thaumcraft loot bags, or maybe have a way to get a bee to produce them? The only way to get them as far as I know is to find them in dungeon chests.
Any way you could maybe cross out things as you guys finish them off the list in the original post of this thread so we know the progress
Thanks again for all of your hard work in getting this to release no matter how many haters are out there, there are just as many of us that appreciate what you are doing.
Their is a reason why their are so many antsy and upset, the ftb team created what amounts to a media saturation campaign in the minecraft community. They started this campaign nearly a month ago during which time they also gave an eta that of 2-3 weeks.This ETA currently looks like it may be on its way to being doubled "they have said several times that the giving out the eta when they did was a mistake trust me i know how that goes". but i would say far and away the worst part has been the lets plays which is in no way the Youtubers fault. their job is to make content we will enjoy and that's what they did however this has just feed the drive of players who want to play the game. so now we have people watching what appears to most players to be a very stable pack built on top of and existing stable pack and being repeatedly told soon and to top this all off we were left with no way at all besides searching Reddit threads to find out when it was being released. Now last week they created this forum thread which was a major push in the right direction and now their is a single place to check but that means that their is also now a single place to complain. and people our complaining which this is the internet that's to be expected. the FTB team and associates has taken to responding with in some less then professional ways which is severally disappointing you are paid employees of a company and should behave as such "well besides slowpoke I'm not sure who is and Isn't on that front". Now I'm not entirely sure how you make money, also I do recognize that i do not buy these packs from the ftb team, However I do realize you make a living off of doing this and as such our held up to a higher standard then you typical mod or mod pack developer. I do not in any way think that any of this was on purpose or that you are being money grubbing to be honest i find that idiotic we don't buy the packs from you. I do hope you have learned why game company's have embargo's on their products "it sucks to watch someone play with a toy you cant have especially at a time like now when were at a lul in minecraft waiting for 1.8 or 1.9". I don't know this whole post has become a bit rambaly and disjointed so....I have to agree with that idea, at least as far as it would be reasonable in regards to issues we in the general public may or may not have knowledge of. A standing task list, not locked down, so it can be updated as the dynamics of development may sometimes reveal unexpected issues, or even solve several problems at once by discovering a deeper root cause. It would be a kind of short form method of letting us all know how things are going, but not require a whole new post or some such thing. A Gdoc or spreadsheet with the primary items holding off the release would be both easy to update, and possibly minimize all the antsy overeager anticipation so many of us are feeling by having a place to check.
Of course, it also means something else to keep track of and work on any way you slice it, so it is simply one more idea out of many options in the ocean of possibilities available.
The dedication to the established quality of FTB modpacks is the primary reason so very many players are eager to get their hands on the Expert Skyblock. And considering you guys and gals pretty much do all of it for free, I will reiterate the expression of gratitude and say thank you for helping us all have so much fun.
No one had a problem with them doing this when expert mode came out and they told everyone they had a list of streamers and youtubers that were willing to test and record play on the pack. I believe the issues that most the players that are mad have is that they can't play the pack and has little to do with the way it is being handled.
