General an appropriate system for game suggestion

[Gordon Freeman IV]

IIRC, a while ago when people were discussing the issue tracker and how suggestions got closed in it, because the issue tracker isn't for suggestions, a CM did say they might consider a similar system for suggestions.

Personally i wouldn't want a similar system. Would give people the idea that if they can rally the votes then FD must do what they want.

However, i would be cool with a similar system without the votes. Basically people can upload, can suggest merges with existing suggestions (because people will raise the same suggestions over and over without checking) - perhaps the merging could have a vote system. Save FD manually merging and allow without enough people confirming its the same suggestion to merge it.

It means there would be a nicely searchable catalogued index of suggestions for FD and players to look at.

Of course, i see a downside, some people would use it negatively. "Look at how many suggestions people have made and FD haven't done any of them! At this time there are 20,000 suggestions that haven't been done! FD suck!"

You just know it.

I like a voting system. It would let Fdev k know the community's top priorities and wants. That could be very valuable for planning future content as they would have numbers beside the idea. Like if ship interiors got 20K likes and a new SRV or ship got 10K likes they would know which one people want. OR they could post their ideas for future content and let the community choose which one to add. Like how Minecraft did with new mobs.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Frontier have ALL the DDF suggestions from years of the games development, and i'm pretty sure 90% of what turns up here can be found in those resources. Still it is fun to let people post suggestions, and maybe it helps Frontier to remember things that keep be suggested?

Sure, its more the voting i'm not keen on.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I like a voting system. It would let Fdev k know the community's top priorities and wants. That could be very valuable for planning future content as they would have numbers beside the idea. Like if ship interiors got 20K likes and a new SRV or ship got 10K likes they would know which one people want. OR they could post their ideas for future content and let the community choose which one to add. Like how Minecraft did with new mobs.

In my opinion, the community doesn't know what it wants. I thinks it knows, but what it wants isn't want it needs.

Plus there is no homogeneous community. I'd be worried against people block voting, or even using alt accounts to boost votes.

 

[Killerskullmk]

I like a voting system. It would let Fdev k know the community's top priorities and wants. That could be very valuable for planning future content as they would have numbers beside the idea. Like if ship interiors got 20K likes and a new SRV or ship got 10K likes they would know which one people want. OR they could post their ideas for future content and let the community choose which one to add. Like how Minecraft did with new mobs.

exactly ! maybe that way at least they know the most common interest of all... there are m things that always repeat themselves because they don't map them...