People's Preference (September) - Grid Update
Posted: 18 Aug 2018, 13:11
We'd like to test drive a new thing here on Path where we ask the community to vote for a minor(ish) update to happen at the beginning of the following month. You suggest, you vote, we go with the people's choice!
What we'll do is alternate these updates month by month between grid (PVE / general), RP, and PVP. Next month's People's Preference update will be for a single grid update.
Here's how it works:
- Post here suggesting an addition to the game, or link to an existing suggestion on the suggestions board. One idea per person, please.
- Make sure to only suggest additions to the game, rather than changes. We'll deal with gameplay change updates when we can, but this system is for new additions or content to the game itself, not for changes to the existing systems.
- Try to pick something that's not too big. We'll only really be selecting small-medium sized updates and content additions. For example, enchanting or mastery powers are massive updates which take multiple months to complete, whereas new NPCs or new hacking gameplay options are smaller updates, and we're able to roll those out fairly quickly.
- After several days (sometimes longer if we don't get many suggestions) I'll go through the list and hand pick 8 of the most do-able and exciting. I'll usually also pick suggestions from players that are most interested in that month's update category (for example, PVP suggestions from PVPers are more likely to make it into the final poll). Those 8 will be placed into a poll, and you can get voting!
- The top voted idea by the end of the month will be selected and implemented very soon after (hopefully within a week!). Note that if the winning vote is for an idea that is marked as "v. small" then the update is considered extremely minor, and in which case I'll also implement the idea with the second highest votes (and perhaps also the third highest, if the second highest is a very small update too).
We hope this gives people a greater sense of community interaction with the developers, and that you'll have at least one update to look forward to every month.
What we'll do is alternate these updates month by month between grid (PVE / general), RP, and PVP. Next month's People's Preference update will be for a single grid update.
Here's how it works:
- Post here suggesting an addition to the game, or link to an existing suggestion on the suggestions board. One idea per person, please.
- Make sure to only suggest additions to the game, rather than changes. We'll deal with gameplay change updates when we can, but this system is for new additions or content to the game itself, not for changes to the existing systems.
- Try to pick something that's not too big. We'll only really be selecting small-medium sized updates and content additions. For example, enchanting or mastery powers are massive updates which take multiple months to complete, whereas new NPCs or new hacking gameplay options are smaller updates, and we're able to roll those out fairly quickly.
- After several days (sometimes longer if we don't get many suggestions) I'll go through the list and hand pick 8 of the most do-able and exciting. I'll usually also pick suggestions from players that are most interested in that month's update category (for example, PVP suggestions from PVPers are more likely to make it into the final poll). Those 8 will be placed into a poll, and you can get voting!
- The top voted idea by the end of the month will be selected and implemented very soon after (hopefully within a week!). Note that if the winning vote is for an idea that is marked as "v. small" then the update is considered extremely minor, and in which case I'll also implement the idea with the second highest votes (and perhaps also the third highest, if the second highest is a very small update too).
We hope this gives people a greater sense of community interaction with the developers, and that you'll have at least one update to look forward to every month.
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