Use of the Roundtable.

7 posts · 2009-02-27 03:44:49 to 2009-02-27 13:18:02

#36300547444 02/27/2009 03:44:49 Use of the Roundtable.

Is there a list of "confirmed/accepted" (by the community for first rund) glitches/errors/annoyances, and also another separate list of stuff, that the community deemed to be not worth to get onto the first list. With explanation why not, and for a place to further debate (or timed (like a year)voting) each item of the list of unaccepted ideas.

Thess could be further divided into bug/annoyances that require minor, medium and major changes,

and game content addition that require minor, medium and major changes

(That all lists kept updated according to what has been actually impleneted/fixed. )

I reckon there are no such lists, howewer I do not see any point of the dev's roundtable without a minimum rationalisation/normalisation and without organising a process like this.

#36300547462 02/27/2009 06:18:50 Re:Use of the Roundtable.

Generally, the Developer Roundtable forums aren't used for discussion of bugs or glitches. It's more of a forum for people to drop their wishlists and for other players to discuss how these hypothetical changes to the game would affect gameplay. Sometimes a Developer would read these forums and think, "Hmm.. that's a good idea / a lot of people seem to want this one," and then work to make it a reality. Or sometimes they'll actually post in a thread an explicit reason why it's impossible to do a certain thing.

As for prioritizing, there's almost-but-not-quite unspoken rules about how certain ideas are treated; for example, making more clothes available is on a higher priority than changing abilities simply because it's easier to do for a Dev.

#36300547463 02/27/2009 06:27:34 Re:Use of the Roundtable.

If you have an idea for something, think an ab or item could do with being changed or have a concern about clothing/abs/buffs etc.. and you want to put to the community make a thread about it. It's a good idea beforehand to use the search function on the subject to see if the subject had been brought up before. If it has, you may find an answer. If it's fairly recent then it's most likely not changed. If it's fairly old (you would have to judge this for yourself) then perhaps more light could be shed on the topic with current knowledge.

#36300547482 02/27/2009 07:45:16 Re:Use of the Roundtable.

1. I asked this on the Redpill Rescue, and they pointed me to this thread (2 different people)

2. The idea about a merged List of Game content ideas are included in my opening post too.

3. Instead of educating, you might point me to the actual forum part where this belong or tell me if there none.

4. Its really pointless to search for individual items on a list of 30-40 !content ideas!, glitches, errors, annoyances

What should I do?

#36300547484 02/27/2009 08:04:55 Re:Use of the Roundtable.

Hey, me again.

I understand your frustration. The answer to your question, however, is simply that no such list exists. At least, nothing updated. I think the last one that was attempted was Fenix's "Hot Debates" thread, but even that wasn't what you are looking for, per se.

You have to understand, this isn't a fledgling newcomer game that people are keen to fix up. Over the past 5 years, there have been tens of thousands of ideas. Several times, players have attempted to organize these ideas, and it just never stuck, mostly because it wasn't kept up-to-date. Couple that with a baffling forum policy about stickied threads enforced by our 'good-ol'boy' network of player mods, and, yeah, most of this stuff is just lost to time.

More importantly, there is almost no development of this game anymore. As of Rarebit's departure, we have been told by the some-time producer of MxO that there will not be any more updates (with the likely exception to turn on and off seasonal events). That's a really sore spot for a lot of us, and will likely bring some heat on me for even saying it. But from what I understand, even if this game were to develop a major glitch it would likely go unrepaired unless it rendered the game unplayable.

So, if you want to proceed regardless, and find out if something has been discussed before, just do a search. I recommend searching for your idea first in thread titles only. Then, you can search for the idea in posts by Rarebit, 9mmfu (NoRepro), Dracomet, HCFrog, and Walrus. That way, you get posts from Devs with their comments about the idea.

Or. . .you can just go ahead and post your ideas here. But, as I said in your other thread, be forewarned. There are some ideas that people have for this game that have already been hashed, rehashed, debated, argued, satirized, beaten until dead, beaten some more, beaten the stick that did the bea... well, you get the idea. Posting one of these ideas will almost certainly get you flamed by some people here.

#36300547511 02/27/2009 11:15:05 Re:Use of the Roundtable.

ok, someone said that there wont be fixes that I'd like anymore, so I decided to keep my list of fixes/changes to the occasion when I will win the lottery and buy the game from soe and then i will make them to be implented, lol

#36300547530 02/27/2009 13:18:02 Re:Use of the Roundtable.

I don't see a point in haveing a dev roundtable anymore anyway because there is no more development expected for our game. I almost feel it should just be closed.