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(09-23-2012 05:48 PM)stevewastaken Wrote:  You might think to yourself "obviously they see the problems. It's all the community talks about." Well, on many occasions I have seen game developers ignore the most obvious problem,

OML is definitely not ignoring them.

Quote:or they acknowledge the problems, but claim that there is no viable solution, using roundabout logic to discredit the simple solutions presented.

It's a mixture of this and "they don't like to communicate much", which is perfectly understandable and justifiable. They're a company after all, and not our first grade buddies. (Which is somewhat unfortunate.)

Quote:In my own opinion, fixing the problems of FTA and Action Confirmations will actually make players more happy than a new team. But this is all speculative.

I completely share your desire for FTA balancing but on this I would rather disagree. Missing confirmation pop-ups are sometimes really frustrating but they don't actually kill the game. The only thing is that you'll be upset with yourself making a stupid misclick. Probably you will blame the game for it, but eventually you'll keep on playing.

Same applies for FTA. If you got FTA, you're all like "yeah I just beat the crap out of 20 Super-Titans" and totally happy. If you're the one being beat by stupid first turn stackers who even got to choose their friggin map (by resigning games they just started and nobody yet joined), you'll be very discouraged to start new games, but you'll probably try at another time of the day, hoping that someone got into all of these games of that retard.



Out of our 60 beta testers, only three or so are still active on the beta forums. The rest somehow vanished after they got the Über Pack for free. I bet they're gonna return beta testing the new team, and once it's released go away until something else that's cool is released.
That situation doesn't really allow for high-level discussions about FTA and possible solutions. The only way left is for me to try to communicate with Alex who seems to make the final decisions on gameplay changes.
However, the communication is really a concrete one-way road and there is basically no way to get a meaningful response on the shitload of feedback or ideas I gave.

I'm into programming myself and, despite not having seen their code, I can't imagine that it is too hard to implement any of our suggestions towards fixing FTA. I got one that is slightly better than letting P1 start with 3 wits (because that would induce clear STA!), but it requires a lot more programming and map altering. And the last time we altered the maps during beta, the game kept crashing over and over. It appears to be very complicated.

However, if we got feedback like "no, this is too hard to program" or something, we could find better or more viable ideas to get rid of FTA.