EVE General Discussion

see my sig

also, that's where you get redirected before filing a ticket in a section covered by the help desk topics.

Never seen that, is indeed helpful to solve the majority of issues. Add more stuff to it, make it public and link it in the help channels.

we have so few threads here anyway.... so i guess having redundand and unnecessary threads is better than have no threads at all

Well, if you have ever submitted a ticket you'd already have that page.

Kinda proves that those who need the help most are least likely to look for it.

Thank you Mr forum janitor.

Why is it giving me the warning message for leaving forums? Is it not run or secured by CCP?

You mean like how a ton of new threads could be avoided by using the search function on the forums, or just a quick google search? You still dont get how lazy and stupid some people get nowadays, do you :p

Sometimes all I want is an answer, and GMs have been good for that.

In a moment of clarity not too long before I changed my signature to this one, I realized the forum-going player base is probably very miniscule compared to the total subscriber base, and for devs to spend time fielding questions on the forums would be disproportionate.

So I guess I mean to say my signature is meant as a piece of advice to players who may be under the impression they will be heard by posting on EVE-O somewhere nonspecific, and asking a GM a question via the ticket system is much more effective.

Between you and me, CCP Darwin, sometimes I get the feeling there's not much to talk about, and that most changes are based on a certain person's belief of how EVE should be, for the most part.

I plan to continue posting for my own amusement, but thinking the forums matter to anyone is very misguided. You can tell me it's not the case, but there's enough evidence to the contrary that, effectively, the forums go unread. You might as well treat the forums as something that exists because it's provided by video games these days.

Kitchens have a sink, bathrooms have a toilet, bedrooms have a bed. Internet games have a forum.

As it goes with the internet in general, nothing matters here.

The forums aren't great for a two-way conversation with the developers, no. GM tickets don't really do that either, though, if your question is about where the game is going.

(If your question is about current policies regarding things like the terms of service or EULA, that's a different matter, they're generally the only people who can answer that kind of thing.)

Where the forums do have great value to us is for feedback on new or upcoming features. That feedback DOES matter. It's rare that a single post will bring something truly new to the conversation, but it's a great indicator of where players' concerns lie, and when those concerns are particularly widespread or unexpected, it can cause, and has caused us to rethink our plans.

One example from my own experience: Team TriLambda, the graphics and art team, is currently working on an overall reworking and review of ship looks with the new Physically-Based Rendering system. This work was made our top priority in large part because of feedback from the community about PBR, mostly on these forums, despite that, due to our other obligations, it would have been much more convenient to do that work later in the year.

Sometimes. And that largely depends on who the dev is and how set they are about the changes they want. Devs like CCP Rise tend to ignore feedback despite how overwhelming it is one way or the other. There have been too many cases were devs have received overwhelming feedback about changes that went through without adjustment or consolation.