FD Newsletters Poll
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Players bringing content to the game was supposed to be covered with 'Q & A' and rumours, the newsletter is full of player acheivements and screenshots right now, so its all player focussed at the moment, and not enough news in the letter. Sure FDev use live streams now, but who has time to sit though all that, when they could have a nice direct email. I would welcome your suggestions.
Of course I know this, and especially at 23:55 at night. But while the cats are away, the mice will eat the flies.
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Waiting for the newsletter all week and to get absolutely no news whatsoever. I wish they'd change their communication strategy just a bit.
Its DAY 2 or WRC Rally Poland, er, I mean, its the second time I will bump this thread this weekend. Tomorrow will be the final day.
The leading option so far, with over 70% votes, is "A Word or Two From David". I do miss David and its great to see his encouragement. I agree it would be good to have a few lines from The Boss on each news letter, to make it feel personable and individualistic. Right now it feels like the Newsletter is Procedurally Generated! - like they feed in some community goal information from a punch tape reader, and the computer spits out a leaflet.
If the Newsletter was half of this size but had twice as much 'news', with a section for Micheal, David and Sandro, with some community images and goals at the bottom, this would be amazing and worth reading and framing behind glass. There have been lots a good newsletters, several quite recently, so they can do it. I think its certainly important when 2.2 is due soon.
Very surprised there isnt more love for "Fun Stats on Everything". I think it would be good to read Total % of Galaxy Explored, total systems discovered, total trade, total enemies destroyed, total light years travelled. FD could have a ball with community stats. And YES I do want to know "Total unique players this month", even if the numer of players has fallen from 10,000 to 1,000, I still would like to know. I think they could run community goals like "We have discovered 1 Billion 998, 999,999 systems, who will be the first to discover our 2 Billionth system?" or "Communitry has traded 200 Trillion Cr so far, lets reach 300 Tillion with the following community goal..." etc. I think it would be fun to have monthly and weekly targets like "Ayling Duvall Ships Destroyed this month = 45,000, goal is 90,000" etc, which is not "Community Goals" formally, but unofficially.
I didnt mention Jaques Station as this is getting lots of press on the newsletter already, and rightly so. I would have made two Jaques stations, one Fed, other Imp, and have them try to "out do" each other directly. Yes this means two sets of story lines but it also means two stations with two sets of player bases, at it could mean a bridge or stepping stones closer to the Core.
The Q & A option was inspired by the Reddit Q & A sessions - so why not have these every month rather than just on Reddit twice a year?
Anyway, there you go.
The leading option so far, with over 70% votes, is "A Word or Two From David". I do miss David and its great to see his encouragement. I agree it would be good to have a few lines from The Boss on each news letter, to make it feel personable and individualistic. Right now it feels like the Newsletter is Procedurally Generated! - like they feed in some community goal information from a punch tape reader, and the computer spits out a leaflet.
If the Newsletter was half of this size but had twice as much 'news', with a section for Micheal, David and Sandro, with some community images and goals at the bottom, this would be amazing and worth reading and framing behind glass. There have been lots a good newsletters, several quite recently, so they can do it. I think its certainly important when 2.2 is due soon.
Very surprised there isnt more love for "Fun Stats on Everything". I think it would be good to read Total % of Galaxy Explored, total systems discovered, total trade, total enemies destroyed, total light years travelled. FD could have a ball with community stats. And YES I do want to know "Total unique players this month", even if the numer of players has fallen from 10,000 to 1,000, I still would like to know. I think they could run community goals like "We have discovered 1 Billion 998, 999,999 systems, who will be the first to discover our 2 Billionth system?" or "Communitry has traded 200 Trillion Cr so far, lets reach 300 Tillion with the following community goal..." etc. I think it would be fun to have monthly and weekly targets like "Ayling Duvall Ships Destroyed this month = 45,000, goal is 90,000" etc, which is not "Community Goals" formally, but unofficially.
I didnt mention Jaques Station as this is getting lots of press on the newsletter already, and rightly so. I would have made two Jaques stations, one Fed, other Imp, and have them try to "out do" each other directly. Yes this means two sets of story lines but it also means two stations with two sets of player bases, at it could mean a bridge or stepping stones closer to the Core.
The Q & A option was inspired by the Reddit Q & A sessions - so why not have these every month rather than just on Reddit twice a year?
Anyway, there you go.
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A Dev Diary all the way. A full on youtube lasting 10-15 minutes with that soft electronic music they used before. That's all I want for Christmas.
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Final stab with the fork into this meat. Who can get this poll up to 100 voters?
I wont bump this any more, I promise.
I wont bump this any more, I promise.
As long as they use better question selection than they do in the live streams. I mean I would like to know more about game features and plans than the questions of How to pronounce a system name or what keeps Eds hair so shiny.
Ian Phillips
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Given the state of your avatar, I'd have thought those tips would be very useful!
