Forum Suggestion

[Madmeater]

The silly suggestion think-tank

make a sub-forum, or stickied thread where people like me can pour our loose ideas into.

This means that if someone has an idea that it isnt really that good, or, in my case alot of the time, is just thinking aloud, it can go here for people to see and build upon.

Having this sub forum means that peoples ideas may be pruned, making the foum cleaner for others, but also, the ideas are still there for people to have a read through and maybe get inspiration for a better idea.

An example would be someone coming up with the concept for a unit, without much thought behind it, and rather than it just clog up the forum, pushing out better ideas, a mod would move it to the think tank until it can be fleshed out enough to return as a legitimate suggestion. This would make for more constuctive ideas coming forward

 

[Weeble]

Surely the current 'Suggestions' forum does just that? At the moment the quantity of suggestions is easily manageable - there's no real need to create an additional forum for fledgling ideas, which will inevitably wind up being posted in the main suggestions forum anyway!

Very few single suggestions are implemented as they're suggested (if any). Nearly all go through several iterations of development until they're coded in, and even then they're often modified a bit further! Having someone post a mini-suggestion in the 'think-tank' forum would mean the 'suggestions' forum would become obsolete. Either that or a home for all implemented suggestions, which seems fairly pointless...

 

[Madmeater]

point taken, I just sometimes feel bad spamming useless idea

 

[Weeble]

Well don't! Post away

 

[atsanjose]

point taken, I just sometimes feel bad spamming useless idea

dont.

and dont feel bad about the people who shoot an idea down before you can say roger rabbit rapes repeatily rather rusty rookies

its people like you who keep this game alive and innovating

 

[Chezz]

in that case, perhaps we could have a section called "approved suggestions (just a random name)" where only the mods could post in?

the mods (after discussion) would take the most promising/balanced/discussed/useful etc. suggestions from the suggestions forum and post it here, which would then make this section a possible 'to do' list for azzer.

any thoughts?

 

[Weeble]

Again, fairly pointless. Azzer reads every single suggestion posted and forms his own 'todo' list on his computer. I've seen him do it, so you can trust me on that one
Besides, it's not up to the mods alone to decide which suggestions are the most thought out or useful - it's up to the playerbase and eventually Azzer himself. The current system works fine as it is.

 

[Chezz]

i was referring to having the mods discuss with the people on the forums....but then, since you have mentioned the problems....then I have nothing much to say

 

[Madmeater]

Again, fairly pointless. Azzer reads every single suggestion posted and forms his own 'todo' list on his computer. I've seen him do it, so you can trust me on that one

Wow, i feel better about posting my silly ideas now
The reasoning for myoriginal idea was based on the assumption that silly ideas aren't evenlooked at

cheers for clearing it up, and expect plenty more weird and wonderful (and mostly un-doable) concepts

 

[Cyrus]

thing is most people go nope **** idea and dont explain why or try to build upon it..thats the problem, although after the latest 'clean-up' im seeing less of it