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RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Zythe on 2005 August 17, 13:28:34
[Yes, they simply ignore us and pretend there's no problem. Nice to see you here as well, rainbow.
Hey, nice to see you here too. I saw you posted again. I posted too. We'll wait and see what happens (as if we had a choice :( ).
baratron:
I don't think "they" are ignoring us - EA maybe, but Quaxi responded to my email to tell me what he's going to do about the issues I raised. If he didn't respond to the forum, that might be an issue of time or difficulty in understanding colloquial English.
I'm happy to slag off EA for not fixing some of the show-stopping bugs in the various Sims games, because they're a supposedly-professional company whose business it is to provide functioning software. But I don't think it's right to slag off the various coders who write add-ons to the game. While large companies rush out improperly-tested software all the time (and should be criticised for it), very few home coders deliberately release buggy software. Sure, slag off the ones who do, they deserve it.
I don't know how many people are involved with maintaining SimPE, but if it really is just one person, it's a labour of love for him to keep doing so. SimPE is a complex program, and the more complexities you have, the more bugs you get - that's inevitable. Also, it is difficult for coders to get involved with something like SimPE because,
being a Windows application, it runs using the Microsoft .NET framework. This means that anyone who wants to help with the coding needs to spend $BIGNUM on a proprietary compiler, which puts it out of the range of a lot of people, unless they have free access to the compiler at college or work. (This is also, I guess, why the guy who writes SimEnhancer charges money for it - he has to make back the $799 US somehow).
I won't repost private email in public forums, but Quaxi reckons that the Unknown sim/Mr Potato Head is being fixed in the next release - it occurs if you click on the Sim Browser before the GUI has loaded the sim listing. Until then, the best thing to do if it bothers you, is use Classic mode SimPE.
RainbowTigress:
I don't mean to "slag" Quaxi or anyone. I know he is doing this without getting paid, and SimPE has helped a lot of people. I was frustrated because of a lack of response to my problem, and I guess I've gotten used to guys like JM and TwoJeffs who are on the ball and respond rather quickly. But when I realized it had been nearly a week and there had been no response, and I heard others saying they had not heard anything from him either, I became more frustrated and vented a little here. I also heard some comments as though Quaxi did not care so much about those of us that use the program for other things besides modding, and I became worried. Of course, that is probably not true at all. Quaxi has done a great service for all of us in the Sims community that want to get under the hood and tinker with stuff that we wouldn't be able to otherwise. It is just my hope that it will continue to keep up with the changes and be a relatively user-friendly program. Of course, I am more technically minded than some, so the degree of user-friendliness is relative. Having good tutorials helps too.
Ok I am done rambling here. I just don't want anyone to think I am "dissing" Quaxi. :)
Zythe:
I would not like to diss Quaxi at all, especially since he's invented such an amazing program and doesn't have to answer us about anything ;) unless it's out the goodness of his heart, which so far, it has been. It's also hard when English isn't your first language, and you have to understand problems with a foreign version, you know? I saw you on ambertation again, rain, and Quaxi did respond to say he hadn't investigated the problems yet :)
Brynne:
Amen to the above. I hope I didn't give the impression that I was complaining about Quaxi, himself. I was only venting a bit about the forum, and I don't think he is the only one running that. Or at least that was the impression I got. I have nothing but respect for Quaxi, especially when you consider the fact that he was seriously injured yet still selflessly puts so much time into Simpe. Very few people would be so generous.
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