jb wrote:Complely understand. But where else are we suppose to get feedback that we all can share? Until we come up with a standard way to capture the opinions of all the people we don't have much to go on...
Well, to answer that in a broader way... just for fun... my answer continues to be the same thing Warren Spector was advising when he was talking about game design. "Trust the creatives".
In other words, since we will never, ever, ever make a weapon or item or feature that "makes everyone happy", what do we do? Since we will never make a change or a tweak or a illegal left turn that pleases every fan, what do we do? His response, and mine (when speaking about the mod or game itself at least), is to do what we feel is best, and just hope many others dig what we do.
That is probably the best advice any game or mod maker/publisher/backer/whatever could ever get. Usually, there is a reason that "the creatives" (Mr. Spector's term, not mine) are in the position they are in, and usually they are going to be teh most qualified to make design decisions. If a publisher wants to have a hugely successful game, the best thing they can do for themselves is shut the hell up and get out of the way.
And if a game development studio wants a hugely successful game, chances are they'll do better by designing it themselves, and not putting up a forum and taking polls about every little tweak. Yes, of course you pay attention to 'what the kids are saying', but you don't 'design by forum'.
Talk about one huge tangent.
Anyway, I realize also that this is not the actual mod itself. It's the medium that our regular forum posters use to talke to us and each other. And upon thinking about it further after making my last post.., sure, I was right, there are many many Chaos fans who don't come to the forums. However, since they don't come to the forums, their opininos about what forum software we use just doesn't matter as much as the folks who use it regularly.
And if I'm not mistaken, the type of forum software (and perhaps how it was to be used), was a very big part of BU being conceived and formed when the PU-GS giants made a change for whatever reason. So yeah, I think it's wise that we do in fact pay close attention to what our regular forum-posting friends think on this. Much more so than any tweak to the actual mod itself.
I would like more modern features available for the Chaos forums, and I don't care what the URL reads. If we can do that at this URL, than I have no more to say on the topic. But upgrading this software has been brought up many times, and while I forget teh details of each response, the bottom line is that it still hasn't happened.
Now I'm not sure where to go next with this post... did I make any sense here? If so, please remind me of my point.
