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BetterSoftwareDevelopment
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Sep 29, 2023 @ 2:37am
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Description
Overview

What does this mod do ?
Better Software Development help automate aspects of your software production.
Automatically promote from the design phase when the desired iterations have been complete.
Promote from alpha when all dev work is complete.
And release software automatically when target bugs are complete, and if it has one, its target date has been met. Don't miss those deadlines !
Support tasks will be closed when all fixable bugs are captured, fixed and released.
Updates will auto release when the update is complete, bugs are fixed and a minimum number of months has passed.

Check out the options for configuration options.

Technical notes
Lower difficulties have a buff to quality design, up to 40%. This is taken into account on the design phase, so you may see less design iterations than you have configured. The buff is applied to the existing design progress then compared to your target design iterations.

Working as of 1.6

What's next?
For now, this mod is a fairly small QOL mod, but over time I intend to add more features. Watch this space for what they may be.

Increase the software selection

New role: Tester
A tester would be involved during alpha and beta, removing some bugs so that they are fixed during alpha, and speeding up the beta phase. Would be balanced to be between a 2:1 and 3:1 ration of devs:testers. Would have different skills such as:
- Automation - Affects how fast bugs are found
- TBC



Latest Updates
12/10/2023
Backwards compatibility added for Software Inc v1.6
Default options are now set correctly on first mod load

09/10/2023
Products with release dates will release on the correct day of multi month games.
Add on products that still have their parent in development will not attempt to auto release.

07/10/2023
Products without release dates will now release correctly.

06/10/2023
Bug fixes to quality modifier being stale.

02/10/2023
Support and update QOL features.
Support tasks will be closed when all fixable bugs are captured, fixed and released.
Updates will auto release when the update is complete, bugs are fixed and a minimum number of months has passed.
52 Comments
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DragonZephyr Feb 9 @ 7:19am 
If this mod can in theory make a bug free release would it be possible to have a toggle or difficulty setting so that this behaviour can be impeded to keep the difficulty up? I both like the idea you could just auto release once its truly done but not knowing wheter something still has bugs is a bit of the DNA of the games that started this.
TwotoolusFLY_LSh.st Jan 21 @ 6:07am 
best mod
WhiteWolf Nov 28, 2024 @ 12:12am 
Just going to leave this here if someone has the same issue:
I just opened the game, loaded a previous save, and this mod threw an error and was unloaded.
The fix was simply restarting the game and loading back in, then the error did not come back.

First time this happened, didn't copy the error code unfortunately, but this is a quick fix if anyone experiences the same issue.
ThatCozyBear Oct 7, 2024 @ 7:44am 
essential
GamerJSP  [author] Sep 29, 2024 @ 5:20am 
Hi,

1) In theory yes.
2) This mod doesn't effect hiring in any way.
3) I'm unsure what you mean, but this mod doesn't affect how project management works.
DarkOutX Sep 23, 2024 @ 12:20am 
Hi! Thanks for your mod, can you please answer few questions?:
1) We don't see total bug amount in GUI, but with your mod I can configure to make bug-free only releases?
2) Is it possible to auto-hire team leads with predefined search filter? (I would like to know if mod api can handle it at least)
3) Is it possible to auto-create printing job for Project Managment with Max value set (to make it work not just once as now but for the whole saling-process)
GamerJSP  [author] May 24, 2024 @ 9:15am 
Can you post the error message please
DuGGeRz May 14, 2024 @ 4:17am 
suddenly getting an error with you mod. it was working fine until today
wynillo Feb 12, 2024 @ 5:16am 
"The updates only release automatically, they do not start by themselves."

Can you add this as a hint text on that checkbox? Else its quite unclear.

Fantastic mod btw! Keep up the good work.
Hamoudi Feb 5, 2024 @ 9:01pm 
Noted. Will test again and see, Thanks a lot for your time.