Shining some light on the POTC Maintenance

[weather3472]

Originally Posted by Catherine Ironcutter

There's hundreds of lines of program just for Blackjack tables. Now think of all the rest of the stuff they have to do: keep track of loot drops, chat, clothing, potions, notoriety, quests, weapons, fishing, treasure... all of this and more for each and every pirate. And I'm guessing there's at least 200,000 pirates. It's the equivalent of probably 2 million lines of coding, because you have to keep track of a certain thing at the exact same time as 20 other things. Disney works hard, and if a line or 2 of bad coding slips in somewhere, they have to go through most of that coding until they find it, fix the error, see if the game is working properly, if it messed something else up, they have to take it back down, find that error, and make sure the game is running then.

I know most of you play games with less bugs than this, but Disney is doing their best to make this a fun game for us all.

Your right actually. Are you a programmer?? You understand this rather well!!

[Catherine Ironcutter]

Are you a programmer?? You understand this rather well!!

No, I'm not a programmer. But I am learning. And trust me, there's a lot of work involved in programming a game this size. A LOT of work. I can only program tiny things, such as text popping up on-screen, but even that has at least 5 lines of coding.

[Davy Bluekidd]

Thanks for the post,
and I've gotta agree with the post above me also, programing is beyond hard. I, once again am learning bits and pieces as well (see guild thread :P)
Anyway, this is for the better, so lets all just chill and go find other things to do...