It propably comes as a no surprise for the dear reader that since the betas were named and overall the game reached the status of beta, this forum has slowed down, gone in to decline so to speak.
Although some sparks of light (Weekly screenies and Q&A time with Johan AND the "Anything for us non-betas to do?" - thread providing the possibility to track down some information for the betas.) it seems that this forum is quite dead.
Of course it is all rational. Betas are doing their betaing, everyone has an NDA and almost all issues are already addressed one way or the other. People are already playing the game so the basics are in, and from the weekly screenshots we see that even the most advanced features are in.
It seems that the game has reached the balancing time. So people are now polishing up the game. (I may of course be way off, as I have no real knowledge, just my assumptions)
It seems to be an impossible task for any of us non-betas to suggest anything at this point of time. If it is a grand change, it is too late. If it is a small change it is in. And as for specific numbers none of us has a clue. The price of a division, the overall difficulty of the game.... We hardly know anything. Not that we should though. That is why NDAs are in.
So the participation takes place on two aforementioned levels:
1.Seeking for actual information of the history of the world ("Anything for us non-betas to do?" - thread)
2.Commenting screenshots.
Some people have asked for Paradox to "throw us a bone", so to speak, ie. to tell us something about something so we can discuss the matter, share our visions and such...
However it is to my understanding that throwing out any "bone" could only further throw the community into chaos... That mostly related to the fact that revealing anything off a paradox game would reveal some eighty different issues, partly... And that would cause people to specualte on the eighty different issues, and with speculating I do not only mean asking questions, but drawing one`s own conclusions taking them as facts and arguing around...
.....
So if I have understood correctly, the pure and sole two purposes for this grand forum are the two so often aforementioned, commenting screenies and technicalities.
And as such I would like to plea for more of them both.
The community, most propably including anyone to read this, is here to comment and help Paradox, more specifically HOI2. You can not let us in on HOI2 specifics, but the following is a list of issues that can well be "socialized":
-Event texts. We have a large variety of nationalities and representatives of dozens of different languages, and also two thousand eye pairs is good at catching a mistake (As some moderators may recall from the Sep. 3rd screenie "This unit have no mission assinged" - scenario
)
-Starting screen texts (Historic back rounds.... Or do you have too much material written down on the Nepal, yet? )
-Leader names, party names....
IE. Anything text related. Maybe a scroll through through the flags as well? Commenting on the sprites of some units?
A few glimpses of the graphics and the in-game texts hardly ruin the game experience for anyone?
I mean people want to help as can be judged from the "Anything for us non-betas to do" - thread. (Yet again referring to that thread, I know )
So then any thoughts on this?
Will the Socialists take over Paradox HQ and spread the wealth of the evil Oligarchy of the betas to the common folk (Well... That is if extra work can be compared to wealth ) ?
Although some sparks of light (Weekly screenies and Q&A time with Johan AND the "Anything for us non-betas to do?" - thread providing the possibility to track down some information for the betas.) it seems that this forum is quite dead.
Of course it is all rational. Betas are doing their betaing, everyone has an NDA and almost all issues are already addressed one way or the other. People are already playing the game so the basics are in, and from the weekly screenshots we see that even the most advanced features are in.
It seems that the game has reached the balancing time. So people are now polishing up the game. (I may of course be way off, as I have no real knowledge, just my assumptions)
It seems to be an impossible task for any of us non-betas to suggest anything at this point of time. If it is a grand change, it is too late. If it is a small change it is in. And as for specific numbers none of us has a clue. The price of a division, the overall difficulty of the game.... We hardly know anything. Not that we should though. That is why NDAs are in.
So the participation takes place on two aforementioned levels:
1.Seeking for actual information of the history of the world ("Anything for us non-betas to do?" - thread)
2.Commenting screenshots.
Some people have asked for Paradox to "throw us a bone", so to speak, ie. to tell us something about something so we can discuss the matter, share our visions and such...
However it is to my understanding that throwing out any "bone" could only further throw the community into chaos... That mostly related to the fact that revealing anything off a paradox game would reveal some eighty different issues, partly... And that would cause people to specualte on the eighty different issues, and with speculating I do not only mean asking questions, but drawing one`s own conclusions taking them as facts and arguing around...
.....
So if I have understood correctly, the pure and sole two purposes for this grand forum are the two so often aforementioned, commenting screenies and technicalities.
And as such I would like to plea for more of them both.
The community, most propably including anyone to read this, is here to comment and help Paradox, more specifically HOI2. You can not let us in on HOI2 specifics, but the following is a list of issues that can well be "socialized":
-Event texts. We have a large variety of nationalities and representatives of dozens of different languages, and also two thousand eye pairs is good at catching a mistake (As some moderators may recall from the Sep. 3rd screenie "This unit have no mission assinged" - scenario
)-Starting screen texts (Historic back rounds.... Or do you have too much material written down on the Nepal, yet?
)-Leader names, party names....
IE. Anything text related. Maybe a scroll through through the flags as well? Commenting on the sprites of some units?
A few glimpses of the graphics and the in-game texts hardly ruin the game experience for anyone?
I mean people want to help as can be judged from the "Anything for us non-betas to do" - thread. (Yet again referring to that thread, I know
)So then any thoughts on this?
Will the Socialists take over Paradox HQ and spread the wealth of the evil Oligarchy of the betas to the common folk (Well... That is if extra work can be compared to wealth
) ?
