Out of sight, out of mind?

[Lord_P]

This forum seems to be exactly this, filled with castaway threads with no replies and paltry views. With an interesting topic (or just more Hellenic begging) you can reach multiple pages, quite impossible here in the desolation of the suggestion forum. The colour scheme is all wrong, too.

 

[Sparticulous]

I hope the didn't make this for that reason I wish one of the CK2 devs would at least post in some threads and be like. this is a cool idea! or be like, we don't think this would be worth the effort

 

[Azarias59]

I hope the didn't make this for that reason I wish one of the CK2 devs would at least post in some threads and be like. this is a cool idea! or be like, we don't think this would be worth the effort

Please please please do this! I want to know that I'm not wasting hours of my life supporting and creating ideas for CK2.

 

[Woopzilla]

Yea, unlike other forums, the last Dev reply to a thread was 10 forum pages in. It feels like that its highly unlikely anything will get considered unless it becomes strangely popular with repeated bumps.

It's unfortunate because there are occassionally very good and very small change suggestions that would make the game more fun - and would probably only take a small amount of time to implement.

 

[Azarias59]

Why did they bother to create this? To give us a place where we can waste our time and energy? There are already websites for that.

 

[klopkr]

Why did they bother to create this? To give us a place where we can waste our time and energy? There are already websites for that.

Well the idea was to sepparate suggestions from the riffraff but like you guys said nobody really looks at this place. Also the main forum is now flooded with negative threads with tons of replies.

Maybe it was the riffraff that should have been seperated from us!

 

[zharliette]

Well the idea was to sepparate suggestions from the riffraff but like you guys said nobody really looks at this place. Also the main forum is now flooded with negative threads with tons of replies.

Maybe it was the riffraff that should have been seperated from us!

There are adequate suggestions and proposals buried in that riffraff still. Main problem seems to be that people really haven't got used to the idea of suggestions subforum and so they don't use it. Or even look at it. But somehow in EU4 suggestion forums, devs occasionally answer and say what they think, especially Wiz. Makes me wonder whether eu4 is just more popular or the difference stems merely from devs having different mentality. After all - Wiz, as I understand it, was picked up from the forums, so maybe he just has more personal feeling of connection with the fanbase. "One of us" feeling, you know. But yeah, I think this place would be more popular if devs took a bit more active role in here and would answer and express their opinions about our thoughts, if only from time to time. Then people would also consider this being a better forum for throwing out ideas.

 

[Moardawts]

The suggestions forum: where ideas go to die.

 

[balmung60]

Looking back, they do occasionally reply, though I think that the EU4 version of this subforum gets a bit more dev response.

 

[Talq]

Timing hasn't been great - they were clearly already committed to doing Way of Life when Charlemagne was released, to the point that even addressing many minor bugs has been difficult and CK2 devs haven't been that chatty (outside of certain restricted issues) for years.

I expect that the value of the forum will only show in how many (good) ideas appear in the next major patch.

 

[NewbieOne]

This forum is part connected with the new idea that the scope of the bug forum should be defined as narrowly as possible. 'That's a suggestion,' is a euphemism for saying nobody cares, go away and die, when you try to address a problem in the game. And frankly, the reason for this confusion is because some people in the dev team really are making arbitrary decisions without thinking about continuity or big picture, without testing, without giving much thought to anything else than they just feel like doing something or whatever. Experimenting in some cases, I guess, even though the game is not an early access alpha or anything of the sort. Thus, we have a lot of WAD that's silly, and a lot of things that certainly can't have been designed that way but are defended as 'WAD' by the fanboys on account of the absence of a technical mistake like a typo in the source code or a tech glitch.

 

[Thure]

Oh no... I see it comming. A hate thread that paradox want to shot down any idea from the fanbase... But without releasing that paradox already added many ideas from the fanbase. And even add more and more moddable features into the game. But yes... Of course they want our ideas too die silently...

 

[NewbieOne]

Oh no... I see it comming. A hate thread that paradox want to shot down any idea from the fanbase... But without releasing that paradox already added many ideas from the fanbase. And even add more and more moddable features into the game. But yes... Of course they want our ideas too die silently...

The only group of people interested in shootind down ideas are groups of posters who disagree for this or that reason (e.g. would prefer the limited time and money to be spent on something else, or just don't care or whatever). More negative reaction to pointing out problems comes from the forum community then from P-dox, from which comes only very little of it and usually worded in a sparing way.