Slowdown

  • cylers
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 2 Permalink

    Hey i'm just making this thread because the powdertoy has seen a dramatic decrease in updates lately and I was just wondering if there was still support from the devs. I've seen you guys active around the forums and wondered what is going on recently. So with idle curiosity in mind, are you guys working on anything big at the moment or just doing bugfixes and the like?

  • jacob1
    22nd Dec 2014 Developer 0 Permalink
    Well we are still very active to moderate and run the game / answer questions. But the development side of things has sort of stalled. I guess it's mostly just bugfixes these days but we aren't really taking new suggestions or adding new things. But regardless, TPT is still an amazing game and is pretty complete :P.

    Of course there are still big plans, but I don't see much happening in the near future. I'm too busy to work on anything big myself.
  • greymatter
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink
    @cylers (View Post)
    Do you know that it's christmas?
  • NF
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @greymatter (View Post)

     Maybe he/she, has a different culture. Christmas isn't celebrated by eveyone yall know. I have seen a slowdown but @lockheedmartin, is developing another website to TPT. And christmas break.

    Edited 3 times by NUCLEAR_FOX. Last: 22nd Dec 2014
  • GreenFireDragon
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @cylers (View Post)

     You can see the latest commit to development branch here https://github.com/simtr/The-Powder-Toy/commits/develop

     There you can see the devs are still deving :P

  • Lord_Bowserinator
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    True, but the forums have been slow. The thread in the BMN group that used to have people posting every hour is now sitting untouched for days

  • cctvdude99
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 1 Permalink
    @Lord_Bowserinator (View Post)
    tbh I thought all the groups died in early 2012 (I left in Dec 2011 [damn that's a long time ago!]).
    Well, the 10 groups I'm in are all dead. (Pretty sure you're only supposed to be in 3 groups, but I joined all of them in the 2 weeks when there was no limit :P )
    I still think the groups section on the forum was the best solution, but nevermind. I'm also pretty sure the lack of groups on the forum is one of the reasons the forums are now so quiet - people now have much less reason to come onto the forums daily/weekly/monthly.
    Edited once by cctvdude99. Last: 22nd Dec 2014
  • NF
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @cctvdude99 (View Post)

     They died in late 2012. Christmas break is going to be a slowdown, because of famliy and friends. It's just that time of year. in the Summer TPT, is really active.

    Edited 2 times by NUCLEAR_FOX. Last: 22nd Dec 2014
  • cylers
    22nd Dec 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    well thanks for the info, and keep up the good work, i've been on TPT almost daily for 4 years now so i'm talking larger trends than just christmas btw but I just wanted to know what was up and how everybody was doing.