General For The Good of The Game and Community

[Pigletslastand]

There should be a MONTHLY progress report for bug fixes featuring answers from the Devs (they don't have to be physically present) which should include.

• A list of all the bugs currently being worked on
• A voting system on those bugs so that the top 100 make it into the report
• An explanation from the technical experts as to why certain bugs are hard to fix/can't be fixed right away.

Why this is needed and what it will accomplish.

• A clearer understanding by the player base as to just how difficult it is to sort certain things
• A reduction in anger amongst the players who lack clear knowledge and so can be free to assume the best or worst
• Improved communication which this game is sorely in need of right now
• A chance to celebrate all the hard work the dev teams do that goes by largely unseen and unthanked
• A chance to finally have the most pressing issues dealt with. There are over 24 thousand on the issue tracker right now, distilling it to a top 100 can focus out the clutter
• A healthier more rational outlet for players who feel their voices aren't heard
• EVERYONE loves a dev stream and that's because we love information about our favourite game
• Less childish interactions on the forums which are largely as a result of a lack of knowledge or assumptions because of such

Thank you for your consideration.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

• A chance to finally have the most pressing issues dealt with. There are over 24 thousand on the issue tracker right now, distilling it to a top 100 can focus out the clutter

That's there already - set the status filter to Acknowledged, then sort by Top Voted.
(Anything past the top 40 or so at the moment is so close in number of votes that it's probably not meaningful. But even 40 bugs would take a few sessions to go through and explain why they're difficult to fix [1])

[1] The answers would vary between interesting technical explanations, "that one's already fixed we just haven't updated the tracker", "that's not actually a bug", and the occasional "because votes or not there's clearly more important things to fix". But it would I agree be helpful to go through anyway.

 

[Pigletslastand]

I just think that if people had real concrete answers from the devs as to what's being done or why something is not being done or can't be done, it would deflate a LOT of the built up frustration. We love the devs, they know way more than us, when they give us info we can deal with it and for the dev team too.. some of our more knowledgeable members talking to them at the same time in chat about the problems might actually help them to conclusions. I feel this approach would be more focused and be in everyone's best interests.