tester wrote:MyCo, Trog, Exo and other folks who participate in beta tests - are talking with devs
For about the 1000th time
If we spot a specific bug and report it, we
sometimes will get to test a new .exe or vst.dll to make sure that the fix works under the same test conditions that it was reported for. Even then, it will usually only be a last minute "sanity check" before a patch is released - and only because we have shown that we are reliable reporters of bugs with enough knowledge of how FS works and how to run proper tests that the dev's find our feedback useful.
For example, I never saw a Beta or any patches for the latest release - I learned of it at the same time as everyone else, when it was announced here. None of the fixes or updates originated with me, so it would have held up the release to have had me test them at short notice.
Other than that, we can make suggestions, and point the dev's in the general direction of any threads that we think they should take a look at -
anyone here can do that, and your suggestions will be given no more or less consideration that ours get.
That's it! - we know nothing more than anyone else about "roadmaps" or what's being worked on right now. And we know better than to ask, because we know they won't tell, and it just makes the conversation awkward - like if you were to ask the guests at a dinner party to tell you graphic details about their sex lives (maybe I just don't get invited to the right dinner parties

)
We get no special favours from DSPr, and we are not "prophets" with a direct line to "god" - we're just the guys that bash the bots, and have better than average knowledge of FS.
If anyone wants to believe otherwise, that's entirely up to them - you may hold on to whatever fantasies and delusions help you get through the day.
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" as Monty Python would put it!
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