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in the last 48 hours there has been some insane bugs , the site needs to be taken down and fixed , theres reports of people buying players putting them in there line ups once they join the team , hours later they log on to find the player is gone and is on another team.

Not yet in Germany... Though I thought Holland was further west than Germany :-|

this was atleast 5 hours down time.

there was NO official info

economy update was like 12 hours late

and worse off all, it happened again when there is a huge server calculation going on (economy update, adding scouting points etc)

We had a huge problem with the site today, on top of the usual Monday-economy update delays. It was something that made the site very slow and we had to restart the database. Things should get back to normal once the delayed economy updates are calculated. Until then, please have patience.

Dear BB-staff,

events in last weeks are really annoying.
And there are 2 main things that annoys me very much:
1) the same problems occur again and again and you looked not to be able to solve the real source of the problems, probably you usualy just clean up the impacts and that's why sooner or later the same problem occurs again,
2) there is very often total luck of communication when some serious bug occurs.
I'm not sure for how long time loyal managers are able to keep on supporting the game if the things are not getting better soon.

Best regards
rwystyrk
one of the most loyal and most successfull managers of Buzzerbeater

Dear rwystyrk,

You know how much I value your opinion. The issues we are having are not caused by our laziness or lack of will. We are simply a small team of developers (of which most are very new to the game). During this period of familiarisation, mistakes have been and will be made. We are only human after all. However, we are doing our best to minimize the problems and fix every bug that is possible. We have been doing a pretty good job so far, but now, a lot of unexpected problems emerged at once, so please try to remember the good times and not only these, troubled ones. Thanks.

BR,
Marin

As I came from the same business I have one (I hope) very usefull advise. Great job without good PR can be consider as very bad job just because of luck of information and communication.
I don't know which way your team is organized and I can't find real issues how to help you without an audit, but for me it looks like no "project manager" is involved. Somebody who doesn't need to work on fixing, but has overview of all tasks in team and can talk to community if it's necessary without any delays.
Do you have any test servers? Or all fixing and new features are released directly to production?

I don't know your position in the team. Maybe my words are addressed more for the owner of the Buzzerbeater, someone who should control whole that business.

I don't know at the moment if our NT qualifies for this Friday European Championship semifinal, but I'm really worry about all the events this Friday. Will be training on time? Will NT coach have enough time to set the lineup according to game shape update on Friday training session? Will be it even possible to set the lineup?

Last edited by rwystyrk at 10/24/2011 11:44:07 AM

I thought that the programmers that bb hired, were supposed to make things better not worse..

In the last 2 weeks we had:
Delays in training updates and economical updates, twice matches didn't start on time, constant training update issues and in general issues that at least I had never encountered before the new programmers take charge of everything. Things are even worse than before at least for me. You should consider rehiring at least...

Familiarization.