Fellow Dovahkin,
The only people that could answer definitively most of our questions would be the coders. I suspect one of the moderators is a coder because of his answers.

Of course it takes the fun out of guessing and talking between ourselves if someone says this is what will or won't happen.

Should the programmers spend a day on these boards to help us with difficult recurrent problems ?

Interested in people's views;

You'll find developers posting from time to time in the Skyrim Mods forum.

it depends really, I like a dev that keeps the line of communication with the player base open, responds and listens, but that's no reason to just tell us everything, a lot of issues come up a million times a day, and the community is usually more than capable of helping find a solution, some people even get a kick out of testing things and finding out how they work.

I'd rather that they spent their time coding games rather than on the forums.
I daresay that they're aware of most bugs, and would probably have at least one person combing the forums for bug reports.

This.

This is the method used by most game companies to find out about and to resolve bug/glitch issues. Either that or they have a dedicated web team that relays the necessary info to the programming/development department so that a fix can be started or decided upon.

It wasn't the bugs that I was on about, I was thinking of them telling us what was in the program. For example, if an NPC goes missing, why is this, is it a glitch or meant to be like that. Horses wandering off -- is that programmed, where are they programmed to go ? That kind of thing.

That would be fun. Altough I doubt a lot of people would understand why those things happened.

I can sum up your big post on this very thing(a few weeks back) in a few words:

They've run their mouths in a definitive manner in a few months, than the 10 years combined with Morrowind and Oblivion XD.

But a good portion of the skyrim fanbase has not seem much because alot of their talking was in the mod and CK forum. SGD is like the catch all hub .




It's been awhile since we last heard from them, but oh well.