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Dominion => Dominion General Discussion => Dominion Online at Shuffle iT => Topic started by: Honkeyfresh on September 29, 2018, 04:10:44 pm

Title: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Honkeyfresh on September 29, 2018, 04:10:44 pm
Not sure if this is the best place to put this but it seems to be to me.

In an effort to make the game better and bug/glitch free, why not offer a bounty to those who find a true one. Like one free month of cards or a +1 month bump in an existing subscription.

 Now a lot of "glitches" are just someone not understanding interactions (ie procession/hireling).  But many are real.  I imagine there are a lot of little mistakes and glitches that people see and don't post. Why not incentivize them.  Some folks with base cards only might even try "hunting for them". 

 As good as the software is there probably won't be many anyway. But if someone finds one you think it would be worth 3 bux for dominion inc. to get each glitch out of the game.  Probably much cheaper than paying techs to try and root out find glitches...

Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: LastFootnote on September 29, 2018, 09:41:32 pm
"Paying techs". Oof. Man, I've got news for you. Shuffle iT is one dude. Everybody else who works on it is a volunteer. And although I have no visibility into his financials, I'm guessing he isn't raking in the cash from this subscription-based, unpolished Dominion implementation. I don't think he's going to be paying anybody for anything anytime soon, or he (hopefully) would have already done so.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Chris is me on September 30, 2018, 10:58:15 am
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Cave-o-sapien on September 30, 2018, 04:27:10 pm
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.

Then we put a bounty on determining which of the reported bugs aren't actually bugs.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Honkeyfresh on October 02, 2018, 11:29:19 am
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.

Really?  Wow.  I thought that Rio Games bought Dominion and I was assuming that under that corporate umbrella it made sense. 

So is shuffle IT independent of dominion, or just like a third party contractor? 
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Awaclus on October 02, 2018, 11:37:26 am
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.

Really?  Wow.  I thought that Rio Games bought Dominion and I was assuming that under that corporate umbrella it made sense. 

So is shuffle IT independent of dominion, or just like a third party contractor?

Shuffle iT is Stef, he has some kind of a contract with RGG.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: markus on October 02, 2018, 11:38:06 am
And Rio Grande is not much bigger:

Rio Grande Games is one guy, Jay Tummelson. As he puts it, "I also do the windows."
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Kirian on October 02, 2018, 07:31:13 pm
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.

Really?  Wow.  I thought that Rio Games bought Dominion and I was assuming that under that corporate umbrella it made sense. 

So is shuffle IT independent of dominion, or just like a third party contractor?

Shuffle iT is Stef, he has some kind of a contract with RGG.

I thought it was Stef and SCSN?
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: chipperMDW on October 02, 2018, 07:41:33 pm
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.

Really?  Wow.  I thought that Rio Games bought Dominion and I was assuming that under that corporate umbrella it made sense. 

So is shuffle IT independent of dominion, or just like a third party contractor?

Shuffle iT is Stef, he has some kind of a contract with RGG.

I thought it was Stef and SCSN?

I think he said no.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: JW on October 02, 2018, 08:15:24 pm
Most of the obscure bugs are known about, and are just a much lower priority than the other work. And in most cases, what people would encounter aren’t actually bugs at all, so I don’t think this would help. They don’t have the problem of not enough things to do.

Really?  Wow.  I thought that Rio Games bought Dominion and I was assuming that under that corporate umbrella it made sense.

So is shuffle IT independent of dominion, or just like a third party contractor?

Shuffle iT is Stef, he has some kind of a contract with RGG.

I thought it was Stef and SCSN?

SCSN left the company sometime last year.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: Commodore Chuckles on October 05, 2018, 06:56:18 pm
Also, every single person in this forum besides you is actually me.
Title: Re: Idea for Donald X and Dominion team: Bounties for Glitches/errors
Post by: sudgy on October 05, 2018, 10:10:09 pm
Also, every single person in this forum besides you is actually me.

You mean WanderingWinder?