Feedback regarding in-game bug reporting on the forums

[Nyarlko]

The template is the stupidest thing I've ever seen on here, and theres some stupid things that go on.

I straight up refuse to submit bugs, I could care less if they fix them due to the annoyance of all the irrelevant information they want.

Shortcut: Copy/Paste your own old bug reports > update relevant info...
Saves me a ton of time personally and greatly reduces any annoyance involved with submitting bug reports. ^^

[Khiril]

update relevant info...

On their template, only one line is actually relevant. That's the problem.

When they stop asking for irrelevant info, and actually address "bugs" THEN people might care.

[Nyarlko]

On their template, only one line is actually relevant. That's the problem.

When they stop asking for irrelevant info, and actually address "bugs" THEN people might care.

I'm pretty sure that the only line that is highly likely to be irrelevant in the majority of reports would be "Race". (And even that could be involved when it's an issue like armor models deforming/clipping oddly for one race.) Everything they ask for in the template could be considered to be a "likely cause" and should be ruled out ASAP in order to pinpoint where/why/what the reported error is occurring, and to confirm that it's a system error and not user-unique. The point of making a bug report using the template is to allow the devs to attempt to reproduce it using as close to identical conditions as possible.

So far, following the bug report template, I've had quite a few accepted and the only ones that weren't were admittedly questionable as to whether they could be classified as a bug, or withdrawn when I figured out what I was doing wrong. ^^;;

Honestly, I believe the biggest improvement we could get would be if the GMs in-game were required to instruct people to use the template when reporting bugs here... and possibly logging/reporting issues themselves once they confirm a player's problem/bug might be nice. <,<;;

edit: About "Race" XD There is one issue ingame that causes a somewhat significant difference in job performance. BST. Due to the JA range nerf a while back, BST is frequently rather close to their targets in order to pop Ready.. The funny thing is that due to player model size (taru>hume/elvaan/mithra>galka) there is a measurable difference in the positioning between the 3 races. It's only something like 0.1-0.2y IIRC, but that means that if a galka is just out of range of an AOE, then a taru on the same axis would most definitely get hit. -_-;; So yeah, occasionally, race can matter depending on the issue.