Has there ever been an advisory council composed of players AKA Commanders, Players, Subscribers that represent Frontier's ED client base? A group that could dialog directly with Frontier on issues, future game features and play. taking ideas from all Commanders. The council could be made up of a cross section of active ED players (maybe 30). Frontier seems to have a triage system in place with issues but without known "trigger points", (what level of severity (complaints) does it take to reach "critical mass" and FDev assign resources? An Advisory Council could be a conduit of information from and to the Commanders. Just a thought!
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No. Don't think there hasn't. Frontier arnt exactly legend in the pa dept. Track record ala bugs patches going south so on so forth is more their style. Just how it is.
You'll get all the gumph about upcoming odyssey content and the sycophantic utube vids thereafter discussing minutiae etc. But aside from that unless it's an egg it won't get turbo attention. Even that took em weeks!
Comms are intermittent at best.
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You'll get all the gumph about upcoming odyssey content and the sycophantic utube vids thereafter discussing minutiae etc. But aside from that unless it's an egg it won't get turbo attention. Even that took em weeks!
Comms are intermittent at best.
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Robert Maynard
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How would members of such a council be chosen and how would it be ensured that their personal preferences were actually representative of the player-base as a whole?
Originally during the KS phase (and shortly after?) there were Founders who had an impact, but thats long gone.
For a while, there were the Triple Elite groups that had a direct line to FD and for a short while seemed to have a little influence, but it seemed if you made too much noise you got ignored.
Some say the streaming "influencers" had some input for a while, but that is disputed and true or not caused too much of a ruccus
Then of course there are the mirriad of self appointed groupings, normally on a specific topic that had some impact
Trouble is, the player base is too varied to be represented by a group, which will naturally represent those in charge of the group instead of its members.
For a while, there were the Triple Elite groups that had a direct line to FD and for a short while seemed to have a little influence, but it seemed if you made too much noise you got ignored.
Some say the streaming "influencers" had some input for a while, but that is disputed and true or not caused too much of a ruccus
Then of course there are the mirriad of self appointed groupings, normally on a specific topic that had some impact
Trouble is, the player base is too varied to be represented by a group, which will naturally represent those in charge of the group instead of its members.
Streamers / influencers are now pretty much that now.
The closest I can think of in the past was the Powerplay 'council' where you had two representatives from each Power that chatted with devs and talked about features / solutions.
The closest I can think of in the past was the Powerplay 'council' where you had two representatives from each Power that chatted with devs and talked about features / solutions.
Some people have tried tried to set themselves up as self-appointed representatives of the player base.
They tend to write open letters.
They do not represent me, even if we agree on some points.
They tend to write open letters.
They do not represent me, even if we agree on some points.
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Participation in the Design Decision Forum was a pledge tier during the Kickstarter. Participants were given the opportunity to engage in discussions on aspects of the design put forward by the Dev team. There was also a suggestion of "god-like powers" when the game went live.
Indeed.
It was for Powerplay only though, mainly as it was such a complex system. It was also a 'hotline' regarding problems with bugs and server issues too.
Its not possible for them to speak for everyone anyway.
Not necessarily for the majority... and which majority anyway? There are many demographics in types of players, some with overlappinging desires and some with conflifcting desires.
Robert Maynard
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Exactly.
Regarding majorities, we've been advised that the majority of players play in Open (at least some of the time) and that the majority of players don't get involved in PvP.
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A Community Council
So, this will be long winded. A few months back, myself and some other CMDRs got together and mulled an idea, put shortly: "A group of prominent community members (Contributors, faction leaders, streamers etc) to act as a filter between the community and the devs, to facilitate effective and...
I'd like to hear some more from Arthur aka Arf on some steps they are taking to improve communication with the player base.
Arf impressed me with his initial response when he came aboard. It gave me some hope that there may be some positive change going forward it Frontier's communication with it's player base.
What I suggested to Arf at that time was that frontier needed a better future feature voting system. One much better then the suggestions section on this forum! I think that alone would be far more useful and less problematic than some type of mysteriously elected council type group.
Arf impressed me with his initial response when he came aboard. It gave me some hope that there may be some positive change going forward it Frontier's communication with it's player base.
What I suggested to Arf at that time was that frontier needed a better future feature voting system. One much better then the suggestions section on this forum! I think that alone would be far more useful and less problematic than some type of mysteriously elected council type group.
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Id be up for it, less bugs and more Hutton mugs.
Not in that form.
Frontier has on various occasions made "focus groups" for limited periods of prominent players in specific areas
- the Powerplay one has been mentioned already
- there was one on engineered weapon rebalancing before the 2.2.03 release
- the 'triple Elite' player groups used to be talked to
- probably some others...
...and there have also been more open discussions of design proposals during the Beyond series here (the Focused Feedback forums)
...and you can get surprisingly good results just by posting here if you think about format, timing, message and audience though that's not really what it's for.
But a generic one to represent everyone on everything? No.
The major problem is that there is basically nothing on which "the community" agrees, including "who is the community?", so it's unclear what benefit it would bring. The (paid) Community Managers already have the job of trying to find actionable points in amongst all this disagreement across the forums, reddit, discords, and other places - in many different languages - so another group duplicating that job won't necessarily add anything.
