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[Kiiyor]

Bishop Steiner, on 16 October 2015 - 02:25 PM, said:

Technically, it's where we are supposed to post for things to do with balance issues, ideas to improve mechanics, UI, etc.

But in my limited experience...it always SEEMS like a graveyard there....I even see Devs respond more in GenDis, than the Feature Suggestion where we are "supposed to suggest" crap.

So just curious, what the general consensus is for those in GenDis....which IS where we get the most traffic and posting........

Do you ever look in Feature Suggestions?

Post there?

Think it's a waste of time?

Thoughts?

I rarely venture out of general.

General is like the transient safety offered by a barrel fire at night in a post apocalyptic wasteland. You've got no idea what's watching you outside of the light - you know something's there, but they never say anything. If you want a sounding board for your ideas, you need to post them where people will actually read them.

Though I do sometimes visit the cowering and huddling masses at new player help.

[zagibu]

It's the /dev/null of this forum.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

For sanity's sake I don't make balance manifestos anymore but when I did I put them in Balance where they were ignored.

[Bishop Steiner]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 16 October 2015 - 08:22 PM, said:

For sanity's sake I don't make balance manifestos anymore but when I did I put them in Balance where they were ignored.

Yup. I've noticed the frequency, length and depth of mine has gone from doctoral thesis, to cliffnotes to sunday morning cartoon strip..... to fortune cookie.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

good point bishop.... anybody rly knows ?

[Mawai]

I post there occasionally in the hopes that PGI reps actually might read it.

However, PGI rarely posts to their own forums ... even their community rep only has 260 posts total with an average of 1/day. That is not a lot of involvement for someone whose job is supposed to be to engage with the community. Why PGI seems to think a lack of communication is a good idea ... I don't know ... but unfortunately, it is a regular and recurring pattern with the exception of the first 4 months after PGI took over from IGP.

[NextGame]

PGI ignore it, so why should anyone else bother?

[Imperius]

We have forums?

[Vellron2005]

I check and post in "Features Suggestions" regularly..

its not dead at all.. actually, It gets much traffic.

Some GREAT ideas down there (shockingly, not all of which are mine ).

Currently, great discussion going on about custom mech geometry, custom mechbays, and custom hud..

[ArchMage Sparrowhawk]

that place is where ideas go to die. I posted there once or twice. Ideas get a few responses, then slide down the wall. Maybe...MAYBE someone from PGI combs through the list every 7 months or so, but really it just seems to be a spillover to contain all of our super useful suggestions.

[Myke Pantera]

I do, and it bothers me a little that too many people post their feature suggestion/demands in the general disc section. On the other hand. If I can't influence it, why bother in the first place...

[Bishop Steiner]

Myke Pantera, on 19 October 2015 - 10:04 AM, said:

I do, and it bothers me a little that too many people post their feature suggestion/demands in the general disc section. On the other hand. If I can't influence it, why bother in the first place...

Well, it could be they post here because they get no traffic in Feature Suggestions.

what's the point of brainstorming and typing up a masterful idea...to have maybe 2 people see it?

[TheArisen]

Bishop Steiner, on 19 October 2015 - 10:07 AM, said:

Well, it could be they post here because they get no traffic in Feature Suggestions.

what's the point of brainstorming and typing up a masterful idea...to have maybe 2 people see it?

This is why I make a poll thread and link it to a brainstorming thread.

[Deathlike]

Been saying it's just a post dumpster given PGI's track record on feedback.

I'm not sure why we're expecting a different result...

[Johnny Z]

Vellron2005, on 19 October 2015 - 12:40 AM, said:

I check and post in "Features Suggestions" regularly..

its not dead at all.. actually, It gets much traffic.

Some GREAT ideas down there (shockingly, not all of which are mine ).

Currently, great discussion going on about custom mech geometry, custom mechbays, and custom hud..

Its true actually. the 1 st page gets run almost daily. Have to keep bumping the best topics every few days so they stay on the first 3 pages or so anyway.

Edited by Johnny Z, 19 October 2015 - 05:12 PM.