I doubt the change to ADM would have affected Aria. Its possible, but
unlikely. The problem with ADM didn't involve its playing time, it stills
plays like it did before, it just actually does something now while its
playing. And yes, if I changed a subroutine I knew was used by other
processes I sure as hell would make sure what I did didn't break those other
processes. If I didn't I would soon be looking for a new job. In fact, now
that I think of it, that is my new job. I spend 80% of my time making sure
that exactly that sort of thing does not occur. Something Verant obviously
cannot be bothered to do. Come on remember those three DoT's that when
implemented would only work if you cast them on yourself, their testing
record speaks for itself and it is mute.
Kitasi
Quality Analyst in RL
(I keep the rest of the programmers honest, or at least awake)
From: Katy Westerman <
katyw@...>
Actually, I can see why it slipped by. They were changing ADM, and
whoever was working on it was probably not the person who originally
coded the spells, and didn't realize that Aria would be affected by
it. It happens, even to me. They don't have time to go back and test
*every* aspect of the game for each patch, simply because if they did,
the patch would be rather long in getting out. That bug will likely
be fixed in the next patch.
Robynn, programmer extrordonaire...who should be getting ready for
work right now.