Really Ugly Radical Rotation in the Navy Bug..

[maxxim]

Would you like to see another Naval bug video? Here is what happens when looking at your main guns, and changing the range setting of your 37mm flak cannons..

The main guns are seen to be elevating at normal speed, along with the sudden and radical rotation which occurs when range settings hit 10 meters.

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[DOC]

Yeah, been this way since they first were built. In reality you should never be able to set range that short and the problem wouldn't be there, but the original effort failed to realize that and we haven't found the priority yet to rdesign it because they work fine above that 10 meter point.

I hope we get a break from more pressing needs so that we can tidy that up, it's been a known issue for 10 years.

I'd like us to perhaps just stop you ranging below 100 meters, it's not like you will be able to use such a short range for anything useful. I don't know if it's that simple and I'm willing to bet it isn't.

[frantish]

I'd like us to perhaps just stop you ranging below 100 meters, it's not like you will be able to use such a short range for anything useful. I don't know if it's that simple and I'm willing to bet it isn't.

Make it so.

[riffraff]

Might go away when the tincans get the quad 40's up and running

[maxxim]

Might go away? Did you notice Doc says this is a known issue for 10 years? Not sure people want to wait that long for it to go away. Does this need a ticket number so we dont have to wait 10 more years?

[DOC]

I already has one. A ticket number means it is known and will be worked on according to priority setting internally. It has no bearing on how long it will take. We have some tickets that are just as old, that's what happens when you have 3,000 tickets and 6 people to address them, and every dev. cycle creates another 300 - 1,000 tickets depending on how long the dev. cycle is.

You know we addressed probably 1,000 tickets during v1.31 dev., and hardly touched the oldest of the old ones, although we probably managed 100 of those as well.

You just don't know the reality we face daily, if you did, you wouldn't be so upset about it. You'd commit suicide instead. Some of our tickets won't get addressed if we were here for 20 years, because a bunch of urgent is always clamouring for our attention. We drill down to less high priority ones when we get a fleeting chance, or work a weekend instead of going home, or stay back late ... then a bunch of high priority tickets come along and the old ones get shuffled back out.

This one, like many, might get lucky next week. Or next month. Or next year. Or never. Not what you want to tell a customer but if we don't, it just means you go along thinking we need reminding when in fact we need PEOPLE and MONEY and not much else.

A rest wouldn't go astray either but no one is going to suggest we need one of those.

[maxxim]

bump 1.34

Edited May 6, 2011 by maxxim