Hi wiqvist,
I agree with most of what you say. I was not singling out Birder, but many Beta testers put out a lot of effort in thorough testing of the various builds over many months. To hear that it was not tested rubs me, and others, the wrong way.
Software projects that break new ground, in this case an entirely new sea model and the dynamics to allow ships to operate in that sea, along with an entirely new mission system, are an evolutionary process. They require many cycles of testing and revising. It is not possible to know the release date until it is ready to be released. It was released with bugs because there was no other option.
Any user of SS 2008 must have noticed by now that SSE is not an update of that program; it is an entirely new program.
The Moderators stand ready to give all the help they can to people who simply ask for help and state the problem calmly. To rant about things entirely beyond our control is counterproductive to say the least, and can engender a contempt for those rant, and a disincentive to waste time with them.
Regards,
Marty