Can we help Stardock? Using Beta testers to help investigate bugs/known issues

from Elemental Forums

Hey, Stardock! You've probably got a list of bugs a mile long. Some of them are probably unconfirmed/unreproducible/unintelligible. How about letting the active forum community here help you with that list? There are some pretty active folks here that would likely be happy to help find out more info on various issues you need help with. It's been pretty amazing to see how in-depth some of the posters here have been on finding out how and why things aren't working right.

Things have been pretty quiet since .86. We'd love to help improve the game however we can.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Not to be rude, but any time gained would be lost twice over having to shift through the shit.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

The major bugs will probably get ironed out among the programmers, QA, and crash logs.  After that, the community will likely find the little ones on their own.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I was thinking of the various models out there for open source projects that report bugs and such. Seems like it works well for Mozilla and Drupal, so just wondering if a portion of that concept could help out, specifically in tracking down strange issues that might have the devs stumped. One example of how this was done in the forums since the public beta started was with the random white glow/leaves some people experienced. SD couldn't track it, but the community pitched in and help to identify when it happened and any commonalities. There have got to be a huge list of things like that we could help diagnose.