Game Mechanics: Sneaking makes you untargetable

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is no evidence in this thread to indicate whether or not this skill behaved in this way at any point in the timeline. My personal recollection is that sneak still functions the same way it did when I first joined the server, but personal recollection is irrelevant.

There are only three possibilities here, and their fate is 100% controlled by developer knowledge, not evidence:

• A) a change was made on purpose = close the bug (the devs already know what they meant to do)
• B) a change was made on accident = fix the bug (the devs already know what they didn't mean to do)
• C) no change was made: close the bug (the devs already know how sneak should work and whether that matches Paul's report)

I mean really ... how many evidence submissions do you think the devs have gotten on sneak over the years? Tens? Maybe even hundreds? Remember all the changes they've made just to sneak pulling over the years? They're not wandering in the dark trying to figure out how sneak should work.

I'm not trying to be a dick about this, but you're discouraging a legitimate bug report with completely unnecessary requirements, when you're not a P99 developer yourself and have no authority to do so. If you discourage even one person (even just Paul himself) from submitting another bug report in the future, the whole server loses out because of you.

So yes, if I want to file a bug saying that flying kick should do 2x the damage of what it's currently doing, evidence will definitely decide decide its outcome. But if I file a bug saying that my flying kick has had half the refresh time it used to since the last patch, evidence has nothing to do with it, because the question isn't "how should flying kit work?", it's "is flying kick working the way it should?" But if you still disagree, please provide circumstance D) where evidence would change the outcome.

P.S. And one more thing: we're not talking about some random n00bie schmuck here complaining about the lack of mercenaries. This is Paul Giamatti, a four year server veteran, compiler/creator of UI enhancements (and a developer himself), and probably one of the ten most respected people on this forum.