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[Steel Raven]

Rockcrusher, on 23 May 2019 - 04:00 PM, said:

Make FP great (again)! -->

... when? FP has always been a train wreck going by this forum.

Edited by Steel Raven, 23 May 2019 - 04:08 PM.

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

Roll back FP.

[LordNothing]

rollback

--or--

fix rp/lp
fix queue imbalance
fix mode diversity/phase length

i see the potential of the new system if these problems can be resolved and if you can reconcile with the loyalists, as they are numerous enough to take down the entire community if not appeased (judging from all the rollback posts above). i am not one of them and just want these issues fixed.

Edited by LordNothing, 23 May 2019 - 04:21 PM.

[LordNothing]

Positive Mental Attitude, on 23 May 2019 - 03:48 PM, said:

Roll back before long tom.

bring back the long tom!

[Charles Sennet]

The Lords Prayer for Faction Play:

Our Father Kerensky who art in the Periphery, hallowed be thy Bloodname. Thy Clans come. Thy will be done, on Terra as it is in the Clan Homeworlds. Give us this day our daily fusionaire; and forgive us our dezgra actions, as we declare a Trial of Grievance for those who are dezgra against us; and lead us not into temptation, but help us deliver Terra from the corrupt houses of the Inner Sphere. Seyla.

Oh... and Father Kerensky... please roll back Faction Play in the next hotfix! I promise to be a good Clanner.

Edited by Charles Sennet, 23 May 2019 - 04:32 PM.

[TubbyToast]

Grim plexus siege only with long tom

[shaytalis]

Edited by shaytalis, 23 May 2019 - 04:33 PM.

[Appogee]

Roll it back.

Then get a small group of those of us who play FP daily to advise you how to improve it.

(You had some good ideas in this update. Unfortunately, your unfamiliarity with the way we play it daily led you to inadvertently remove some of the things that kept us playing.)

Edited by Appogee, 23 May 2019 - 04:32 PM.

[Wibbledtodeath]

Why is it loyalists always get screwed over with every change? I am not saying roll it back- but please give loyalists some love/compensation/something. We ARE the heart and soul of FP. Don't piss us all off.

[Positive Mental Attitude]

LordNothing, on 23 May 2019 - 04:26 PM, said:

bring back the long tom!

[Phoenix4427]

ROLL BACK FACTION PLAY!

[-Mean Machine Angel-]

Useless hot fix full of useless.
ROLLBACK

[Hobbles v]

best fix it to roll it back to pre-patch state and then work on adding what little good came from this patch to it.

[shaytalis]

[Faesul]

#rollbackFP

[LordNothing]

Positive Mental Attitude, on 23 May 2019 - 04:37 PM, said:

dont you not miss the purple smoke of DOOM!

Edited by LordNothing, 23 May 2019 - 05:01 PM.

[-Ramrod-]

Roll back FP please.

https://i.imgur.com/3cbPpgq.gif

[Paul Inouye]

Well instead of waiting for tomorrow's update, I'll have to nip this part in the bud (rolling back)...

We cannot roll back a patch like this. A rollback of this magnitude would impose a workload that would be in a similar scope of rewriting the entire update. The database and backend services only move forward. There were significant changes in this patch in relation to these services. Rolling back would cause a massive desync in data which could result in a corruption of the entire backend structure essentially bringing the entire game to a halt. Rolling back code in a revision control environment isn't the issue... when things go live, the data in the backend has already taken on the new properties which would break under the previous codebase. On top of that, we cannot rollback 'just a section' of a patch, the entire patch would rollback including the new 'Mech and fixes that were also part of it.

As I mentioned in the latest FP Update post, there is a plan for changes/updates based on feedback and I'm waiting for a few more information sources to get back to me before I draft up the complete plan for moving forward. I will post this information tomorrow and will open it up for more feedback.

[denAirwalkerrr]

Understandable. You really better not ignore it this time and drag fixing this mess by months.

[Stargazzer811]

Paul Inouye, on 23 May 2019 - 05:01 PM, said:

Well instead of waiting for tomorrow's update, I'll have to nip this part in the bud (rolling back)...

We cannot roll back a patch like this. A rollback of this magnitude would impose a workload that would be in a similar scope of rewriting the entire update. The database and backend services only move forward. There were significant changes in this patch in relation to these services. Rolling back would cause a massive desync in data which could result in a corruption of the entire backend structure essentially bringing the entire game to a halt. Rolling back code in a revision control environment isn't the issue... when things go live, the data in the backend has already taken on the new properties which would break under the previous codebase. On top of that, we cannot rollback 'just a section' of a patch, the entire patch would rollback including the new 'Mech and fixes that were also part of it.

As I mentioned in the latest FP Update post, there is a plan for changes/updates based on feedback and I'm waiting for a few more information sources to get back to me before I draft up the complete plan for moving forward. I will post this information tomorrow and will open it up for more feedback.

See, I like this answer, its a good answer. Thank you Paul and keep up the good work. Don't let the rest of these dezgra surats trouble you, most of them will never be satisfied.