In-Game Reporting Tools

[Static (DayZ) 1]

Rocket and his team need better reporting tools. From reading through the 1.7.2.5 forum posting, it's incredible he gets anything achieved, there's so much more noise to signal that I'm amazed he can make development choices in response (of course, I'm not talking about *your* posts, you are always precise and to the point!).

My suggestion is to work on integrating some better reporting and user feedback tools into the game itself. For example if Rocket needs to find out if a graphical bug is still present in the game, why can't a little alert box pop up in the corner of the screen so players can directly report via a poll? Or why can't we have a bug submission wizard/form built in to the game that report the coordinates, build numbers, server details and anything else they need to make an accurate diagnosis of the problem.

Ideally the bug report system would be broken down into type of bug, and then prepopulated by existing known bugs, so if you had a Graphical glitch, you might only have to click "Report Bug" > "Graphical Errors" > "Green Mountain" and optionally leave a comment. Or a "Report Hacker" options that alerts the admin/hive server to a particular type of event.

These forums are busy, but compared to the number of players involved in the game, it's a drop in the ocean. If some better tools existed for interacting with those players, in controlled ways, I would hope it could lead to better information, and give the development team a more realistic view of the priority of certain fixes.