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Lycus -> RE: EpicDuel Players' Impact Comittee (EPIC) =Please Read= (9/24/2012 14:12:47)
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Firstly, I apologise for missing this topic, must have overlooked it while going through the suggestions, hence the late reply.
On topic: I do think this is an interesting suggestion, but at the same time, I have to be honest and say that there are a very large amount of problems, that make it rather unfeasible. Firstly, as ND Mallet explained, for Legal reasons anyone taken on for any position, big or small, even something like this would HAVE to be 18+, no arguments. This also seems to be focused purely on balance suggestions, rather than general suggestions, so I'll cover that part first.
Secondly, the Devs as a whole don't deal with Balance, RabbleFroth (Programmer) is the Dev that does all the balancing, along with multiple Moderators. RabbleFroth uses multiple methods on the way he looks into dealing with Balance, he uses the data of the battle tracker (that shows the win ratios of each class in 1v1 and 2v2, at every 5 level point), sees where there's an issue, then he reads through the Balance Suggestions here on the forums, and he 90% of the time uses a solution from there to deal with it. I can tell you as a fact that one of the main factors that effects what balance changes is what players feel, and their suggestions. I can also reassure you that the balance topic in ED GD and the suggestion topics here are all read frequently. As also proven here, even if one is missed initially, it will certainly be read when another sweep is done. We may not always post, since sometimes we need to consider things or discuss things, before we reply, or sometimes we just genuinely pop on, get a load of ideas, note them, then leave to consider them.
As for normal suggestions, a lot of features in-game are effected/originate from player suggestions, and a lot more than people see. To name a few, buying hairstyles permanently, name change, class change, how wars work, being able to choose out of a number of options of add-ons when purchasing a Varium package, missions, mission chains, bots, battle drops, new classes, mutating weapons, and Limited Quantity Items - all player suggested, or heavily player suggestion influenced releases, just to name a handful. Point is, we value player input very highly and this means that means that we check this section and any other places where people suggest things (Latest DN , and Balance Discussion topics) very frequently. If players suggest something on the forums, there's a very high chance that we'll read it.
Now that in mind, it makes this whole suggestion, in a way, of limited use. The point of these forums is for players to have a place to get help, discuss the game and to give feedback/suggestions on it. In other words, they cover the whole purpose of what this group you are proposing, would do. Adding a group to do this would cause a 'hierarchy effect', since whether you feel it would or not, the fact they have direct contact with a Dev or Admin would make them naturally above other players, which wouldn't be fair. It would require a lot of trust put into players, because it is very hard not to be naturally bias towards your own class, and if you try not to be biased towards your own class, you'll likely end up being bias towards other classes. It'd create a lot of coding to add this new toolbox for them to use and it'd also require RabbleFroth or another member of the ED Team to take control of this group and be responsible for them. For the amount of work it would be and the amount of downsides there are, it's not really worth it, when the forums cover most of it anyway, and we do check the forums very frequently, even if we don't post every time we read an idea, I can guarantee that we read it.
I hope you understand that, and thank you very much for the idea, I can see where you are coming, but I hope you understand that we do actually read the forums a lot, and player ideas are incorporated into the game a lot more than most people realise :)
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