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<b>Message ID:</b> 10995 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Thu Dec  2 16:20:15 GMT 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Greg Gillan <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Broken Song <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1577311735">I&#39;m willing to bet that Aria wasn&#39;t broken as a result of the ADM fix.<br/>
I&#39;d bet that they were trying to change Aria so that it wouldn&#39;t cancel<br/>
other, non-bard forms of levitation.  i.e. our song won&#39;t take hold on<br/>
someone already levitating.  It seems they&#39;ve been doing this to a lot of<br/>
our songs lately (selos, clouding) and I think its a good thing, well,<br/>
assuming they could get it right that is.<br/>
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<br/>
Elwyn Heartstring<br/>
Level 50 Bard of Erollisi Marr<br/>
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-----Original Message-----<br/>
From: Kimes, Dean W. [mailto:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dean_Kimes@...">Dean_Kimes@...</a>]<br/>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:38 AM<br/>
To: &#39;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:eqbards@onelist.com">eqbards@onelist.com</a>&#39;<br/>
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Broken Song<br/>
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From: &quot;Kimes, Dean W.&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dean_Kimes@...">Dean_Kimes@...</a>&gt;<br/>
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I doubt the change to ADM would have affected Aria.  Its possible, but<br/>
unlikely.  The problem with ADM didn&#39;t involve its playing time, it stills<br/>
plays like it did before, it just actually does something now while its<br/>
playing.  And yes, if I changed a subroutine I knew was used by other<br/>
processes I sure as hell would make sure what I did didn&#39;t break those other<br/>
processes.  If I didn&#39;t I would soon be looking for a new job.  In fact, now<br/>
that I think of it, that is my new job.  I spend 80% of my time making sure<br/>
that exactly that sort of thing does not occur.  Something Verant obviously<br/>
cannot be bothered to do.  Come on remember those three DoT&#39;s that when<br/>
implemented would only work if you cast them on yourself, their testing<br/>
record speaks for itself and it is mute.<br/>
<br/>
	Kitasi<br/>
	Quality Analyst in RL<br/>
	(I keep the rest of the programmers honest, or at least awake)<br/>
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From: Katy Westerman &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:katyw@...">katyw@...</a>&gt;<br/>
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Actually, I can see why it slipped by.  They were changing ADM, and<br/>
whoever was working on it was probably not the person who originally<br/>
coded the spells, and didn&#39;t realize that Aria would be affected by<br/>
it.  It happens, even to me.  They don&#39;t have time to go back and test<br/>
*every* aspect of the game for each patch, simply because if they did,<br/>
the patch would be rather long in getting out.  That bug will likely<br/>
be fixed in the next patch.<br/>
<br/>
Robynn, programmer extrordonaire...who should be getting ready for<br/>
work right now.</div>