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The Pinball Arcade / Farsight Studios
If FS is after authenticity, why the rule changes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Matt McIrvin" data-source="post: 14520" data-attributes="member: 590"><p>Speaking as a coder, I can actually sympathize with them here.</p><p></p><p>Implementing the operator settings would be easy; the problem is that once you implement something you have to support it, and there are that many more combinations of settings under which the tables have to be tested and debugged.</p><p></p><p>It's something Steve Maguire emphasizes in one of my favorite programming books, <em>Writing Solid Code:</em> features that fall "for free" out of the implementation are never really free, because once they're there you have to keep supporting them forever, even when the implementation changes.</p><p></p><p>Also, they have to figure out how all that interacts with online leaderboards and achievements (the simplest thing would be to only activate them with the default settings, but then that's another thing to make sure you get right).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt McIrvin, post: 14520, member: 590"] Speaking as a coder, I can actually sympathize with them here. Implementing the operator settings would be easy; the problem is that once you implement something you have to support it, and there are that many more combinations of settings under which the tables have to be tested and debugged. It's something Steve Maguire emphasizes in one of my favorite programming books, [I]Writing Solid Code:[/I] features that fall "for free" out of the implementation are never really free, because once they're there you have to keep supporting them forever, even when the implementation changes. Also, they have to figure out how all that interacts with online leaderboards and achievements (the simplest thing would be to only activate them with the default settings, but then that's another thing to make sure you get right). [/QUOTE]
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