Larger gameplay changes (eg. physics or weapon balance) HAVE to be introduced on public playtest servers (at least one in NA and one in EU), with nonskippable MOTD indicating the purpose for 2 weeks of testing. Also, have to make sticky thread in the forum about the server, to harvest community respons. Feedback NOT given on that thread will be IGNORED (no irc, no ingame chat etc.) TEST IT, REPLY OR STFU.
CuBe0wL
VETOED
poll is silly... We'll stick to the same merging common sense we've always had for gameplay design... As the person who actually DOES all that work, no, I won't handle it precisely in the way described in this poll, I will handle it how it always has been handled: where needed. (by Samual)
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User
Decision
Comment
Antibody
YES
Great idea. Should also publicize this process - maybe blog post as well.
divVerent
YES
but someone else please track down the motd bug - with that fixed (motd shouldn't expire until game start AT ALL) it'd be sufficient for this vote
MrBougo
YES
bitbomb
YES
CuBe0wL
YES
Debugger
YES
This would save samual all his nerves, no argueing on IRC anymore. Also, one can just assign a specific thread to e.g. a PR guy who can also handle it then