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Either ways, I won't really comment more on this incident, the liaison we are talking about won't deal with ED community either ways, so I don't know why they are searching here.

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I agree, it's very clear as explained in Nightwraith's design notes post that it takes long to complete things for ED since they are still focusing on BioBeasts. Mecha Mario's skills at multitasking has nothing to do with it and adding a new testers, moderators or a new liaison to the team will only help with what their position entails, but it won't help at all with development since they aren't software developers.

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The last Liaison wasn't from ED community and people didn't seem to like that (especially you). That is probably why they are searching here.

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But either ways, Mecha Mario remains a great guy who gave a lot to the community and ED, but we must let go of that community contempt and give other members a chance. In the end we all have a brain and we all can make good decisions not just a handful of individuals out there. Because to me it looks like positions are being inherited by different staff members, leaving 0 chance to other members.

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Adding more Testers doesn't necessarily fix balance or allow more features to be implemented. There's a limit to what volunteers can accomplish versus paid developers. While testers can make sure the game is running smoothly, they can't create new game code.

I test release content and hunt down bugs. Testing for those is pretty much as efficient as it can be, adding more testers wouldn't cause bug fixes to go live earlier. If Mecha were overwhelmed, he would submit a call for more testers.

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I'm talking in a larger scale, not specifically the current ED. Mecha Mario has been the only tester for quite awhile now. And when I speak about development, I'm not speaking about feature-wise only, we all agree that there is a lot of work to be done when it comes to balance especially

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Battle Elf pretty much covered what I was going to say, but please note that testers != balance team. Observe that a tester's job is to "address any bug reports and test the game before it is updated to ensure no issues are present" and nowhere in that description does it say that testers are in charge of the game's balance. While it is true that all staff can make balance suggestions, most if not all of the suggestions are taken from the balance forums. I feel that it is a very common misconception that testers are supposed to be in charge of maintaining the game's balance and should be playing the game 24/7 with every class and every build and every game mode when in reality that is not what their job is.

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Speaking from my past experience of inviting Ranloth to join the wiki team, who was a guest artist/tester at that time, he was just a great opportunity for the wiki. I knew that since he was selected as a guest artist/tester, he was already vetted throughly and by looking at his public profiles, he would be a good representative of the wiki. As a tester, he also signed the NDA and has access to the development server, which is great for the wiki, so it seemed like a perfect fit. I can definitely hire from outside the ED Team, and I did for the most recent wiki staff member, but it usually requires more time to properly vet the person. I don't give preference to existing staff but sometimes a great candidate comes along that happens to be an existing staff member and I'm not going to veto someone because of that.

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There is no dedicated balance team in the sense of staff members playing different classes, game modes and builds. The "balance team" is what I described in the previous paragraph.

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Ranloth's retirement did impact the team but not as drastically as you make it sound. It just meant less storyline content, Battle Elf filling in as a tester and I've already hired a new wiki staff member.