Release Notes - December 10, 2009

[JakeTheSnake]

There are way too many bugs making it even to the test server. They should be cleaning up 95% of the bugs in their in-house test department before even sending it to open test. Things like islands missing from the map, SvS sails not displaying properly, and fluctuations in hull armor should all be worked out and resolved before even going to open test. Open Test should be for making sure things work across a much larger audience, not using a much larger audience as their quality assurance department.
In my opinion, they're rushing things to test that aren't even ready for test. Of course, this is only my observations from the posts in the Helm and news forums since I don't have test access yet...
But it seems like some of the major changes that were introduced late in this test round (eliminating player bumping, hull armors, chain shot damage boost, etc.) were just sort of thrown in at the last minute. These are some significant changes and it seems like they should have come with the first release to test. Coming when they did makes it sort of seem like an afterthought.