Tichorius Davion, on 17 April 2014 - 06:58 AM, said:
Can we not base it off the top 50 ideas.
Could you imagine? No more ghost heat, the gauss charge is gone, and Double Heatsinks are at 2 heat dissppation.
edited;
The era of the Misery/Boar's Head comes with the quad PPC Gauss rifle comes back.
edit; I believe ghost heat is a half decent attempt at curbing the overly potent min maxing meta builds but rquires a major reworking.
I was a bit unclear. I don't mean individual suggestions like "make AMS have a toggle". I'm talking about longer posts where the author presents a goal, discusses the case and is able to give at least some compelling arguments for it. Such suggestions usually contain abstract matters and the reader should be able to perceive the spirit of the suggestion even if they don't agree on the individual numbers, that were given as example. Also, the longer the post, the more attention span it requires to go through i.e. the more trustworthy the vote result becomes, because attention span correlates with intelligence (not claiming causality).
EDIT: Changed "threads" -> "posts" in the paragraph above, which was what I meant. Going thru endless yes-no threads may not be the best use of time. If OP is good, there may not even be much more posts in the thread, because the matter was handled already from many points of view.
Heffay, on 17 April 2014 - 07:00 AM, said:
That's a tough road to follow. You have one idea posted among thousands. Do they answer all? If they say no, does the dialog continue if you disagree with their reply? How long do they maintain the conversation?
Dialogues with the player base are tricky.
Of course they don't answer all. They could have, say a Community Manager to dig out the most well argued posts where basics are right (for example, you can just by default ignore posts, which don't use capital letters at all or have more than 5 exclamation marks in a row).
About dialogue: I certainly don't expect a game designer to entertain me with his precious time by explaining every little detail to me. I would be basically satisfied with any response. If there are arguments along the answer, that'd be great. Like my IW thread, the options for PGI to answer might be something like this:
1) No good, because a very bad idea
2) No good, because very hard to implement
3) Interesting idea, we might look into it
4) A very interesting idea, we are definitely looking into it
5) OMG, this will be in the next patch even though it's tomorrow!
If with 4 and 5 PGI also told me, "Since you are so eager to do our job for us for free, why don't you update your idea regarding x and y, which we cannot make happen but the rest looks good so go over it again and post us your latest."
I'd definitely help them, because I want the darn Thinking Man's shooter, not a game for the console generation.
Edited by Rasc4l, 17 April 2014 - 07:54 AM.