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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8846083" data-attributes="member: 27957">While I am a mere user, I've seen enough struggles with complex code bases over the years that I never assume it's quick and easy to fix. A decade with World of Warcraft rubbed my nose in enough of them. I remember the one time, they made a minor change in the tank threat multiplier. That minor change somehow broke a Paladin ability, where a DoT (Damage over Time) that was supposed to stack to 5 got uncapped and would stack infinitely, turning them into unstoppable gods that were vaporizing raid bosses.How? Why? That's the wonder of spaghetti code. Sometimes things just happen, and the how and why is all inside a black box made by someone who left two years ago and didn't document their code properly. Fixing it is a difficult and labor intensive process that can sometimes mean rebuilding it from scratch.Also, any schedule estimate from three years ago was made in the Before Times. None of those survived the advent of the pandemic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 8846083, member: 27957"] While I am a mere user, I've seen enough struggles with complex code bases over the years that I never assume it's quick and easy to fix. A decade with World of Warcraft rubbed my nose in enough of them. I remember the one time, they made a minor change in the tank threat multiplier. That minor change somehow broke a Paladin ability, where a DoT (Damage over Time) that was supposed to stack to 5 got uncapped and would stack infinitely, turning them into unstoppable gods that were vaporizing raid bosses. How? Why? That's the wonder of spaghetti code. Sometimes things just happen, and the how and why is all inside a black box made by someone who left two years ago and didn't document their code properly. Fixing it is a difficult and labor intensive process that can sometimes mean rebuilding it from scratch. Also, any schedule estimate from three years ago was made in the Before Times. None of those survived the advent of the pandemic. [/QUOTE]

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