i'm currently spending a lot of time playing the alpha2 release of FreeCol, and trying to find bugs. The obvious ones I don't need to report ("um, guys, why aren't my horses breeding/ That's kinda important"). So I'm playing with some batshit insane strategies to see if anything weird comes up that the Devs have never seen before. Thus far, I've found one thing.
The lead Dev has thanked me profusely (because, seriously, it took a lot of weird setup to find this thing, although I wasn't looking for that specifically I was just trying to break the game).
Now, it's fixed in trunk so when 0.10.beta comes out the game might actually be fully playable.
Dreamwidth is still in beta, we're still testing the servers, the code, the whatever.
You have found a bug. One they hadn't seen before, at all, one that shouldn't exist.
This is a Good Thing.
Because now thye can fix this bug, and possibly make sure that a) you can't do it again but more importantly, b) other people doing something similar but different don't do it again.
Congratulations, you have broken the site in a way they can fix. Really, that's a good thing to do.
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i'm currently spending a lot of time playing the alpha2 release of FreeCol, and trying to find bugs. The obvious ones I don't need to report ("um, guys, why aren't my horses breeding/ That's kinda important"). So I'm playing with some batshit insane strategies to see if anything weird comes up that the Devs have never seen before. Thus far, I've found one thing.
The lead Dev has thanked me profusely (because, seriously, it took a lot of weird setup to find this thing, although I wasn't looking for that specifically I was just trying to break the game).
Now, it's fixed in trunk so when 0.10.beta comes out the game might actually be fully playable.
Dreamwidth is still in beta, we're still testing the servers, the code, the whatever.
You have found a bug. One they hadn't seen before, at all, one that shouldn't exist.
This is a Good Thing.
Because now thye can fix this bug, and possibly make sure that a) you can't do it again but more importantly, b) other people doing something similar but different don't do it again.
Congratulations, you have broken the site in a way they can fix. Really, that's a good thing to do.