What's the point of posting bug reports anymore? [NOT A BUG]

[Vinnie Terranova]

Both ATS and ETS2 are beautiful, gorgeous and awesome games of a very high quality. At the same time they are quite complex, too, which of course can lead to some bugs. As I love playing both games, the main reason for that is the quality of both games. And that's the reason that when I find a bug, I will report it, so the game will contain less bugs, and the quality increases even more.

But... some days ago I posted a few bug reports. Unfortunately it seems some of them are being totally ignored; they didn't get a bug ticket number or any other feedback at all.

That brings me to this question: what is the point of posting bug reports anymore? I put a lot of effort in my bug reports, but if they are ignored anyway, why should I post them?

Two examples: Weird things happen at random event and Neverending detour loopings.

In the meantime I found a bug in Idaho. As the search function of the SCS forum is inadequate it's impossible to know if this bug is reported before, so normally I would post that bug anyway. I also found a bug all over the place (base map and all official map DLCs). But if my bug reports are ignored anyway, I really see no point anymore to post them as bug reports.

[Underscore_101_]

idk if it's relevant, but you're supposed to post your game.log.txt with the bug report, you didn't with the examples in your post....

Other than that, I think SCS are aware of some problems with the detours, in your detour looping examples, have you tried setting new waypoints and/or avoid points, because that's kinda the point of detours...?

[Vinnie Terranova]

I almost never post game.log.txt with my bug reports as usually the bugs I found are easily to detect with the corresponding coordinates and screenshots I give. If I for instance would find a bug that leads to a CTD I ofcourse would post also my game.log.txt.

About the problems with detours: if it would only occur at one particular location, I wouldn't mind setting new waypoints/avoid point. The point is, however, that this looping occurs at way too many locations; it clearly is some kind of design flaw and therefore it is a bug.
But then again, why doesn't SCS consider this as a bug? Or why don't they give some feedback? I feel like SCS is ignoring my bug reports.

[plykkegaard]

But if my bug reports are ignored anyway

My assumption is that no bug reports are ignored, but there is a huge time span currently between the date for report and when it is acknowledged, 2-3 weeks atm

As mentioned the requirements need to be followed for every and each report, good description, good self explained images etc, you probably know the drill already
It is not to amuse you, but to help the staff at SCS

Eg your report named "Empty random event", Max can't really do anything without the game log quite obvious it is put on ice until you can give the needed information
Every time i find a bug I will create a copy of the game log and rename it with current data/time in the filename, then I can report it later at my own convinience

[Etrusan]

Technically, your posts are not bug reports, because they don't have all the needed info, namely the log as you stated.

[Madkine]

Also SCS has never said every report will be responded to quickly. If you watch the bug forums you'll see that sporadically older bug reports get responded too.