How to avoid a repeated exobiology minigame mess

CMDR_LS

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I'd like to add a suggestion, something Frontier should seriously consider moving forward.

EVE online has it, Star Citizen has it as well...

Establish a committee of players that will serve as an advocacy group, consisting of members democratically elected by the community to advise and assist FDev in the continuous development of Elite Dangerous. The committee will bring focused and structured feedback from the community to FDev and represents their views and interests.

Had Frontier had such committee in place, I bet this whole exobiology minigame mess would have been avoided.
 

Lugh

Lugh
are they really the best two examples for this being a good idea? CCP has repeatedly shown that the CSM is more for PR and publicity than something they take input from. Having even gone so far as to lie to the CSM so they will endorse something only to release something entirely different or black balling members just because some one at CCP had personal issues with the individual or their associates and star citizen pumps up their group and agrees to a lot of things but never really delivers.

These are two of the best know examples of such player ambassador groups but they became well know for bad reasons not good ones. Honestly groups like this have been successful but it requires a certain cutler from the company and a positive relationship between the game development team and the player base neither of those are present with elite. Where FDev is more concerned with product marketability and the player base if full of players who are extremely distrustful of FDEV and can't separate FDev from the elite development team.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
We don't need no stinkin' committees. We have something far more powerful and far reaching to make fdev quake in their boots and jump at our every whim!

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OA YT votes ;)
 

Frankymole

Frankymole
h2bz said:
What happened to it? Or more likely, did it happen at all?
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Can't remember. Maybe it was disbanded after Horizons or Beyond, or whatever came in between those two. Maybe it's still running. It did some work but I didn't really follow it.

Was it the Design Decision Forum membership, I think? See this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/design-decision-forum.3153/
"As to your question about the Design Decision Forum (DDF), it has been said that at certain points during the development of the game, options will be given out by the dev team to the DDF on what route to take that will have a direct influence on the look, gameplay and features within the game."

Listed on the Kickstarter rewards: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Kickstarter
 
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Frankymole

Frankymole
There's more on it in the Wiki:

Design Decision Forum​

People who pledged £300 or more in the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter were invited to take part in the Design Decision Forum (DDF), a private section of the Frontier forums, giving them an unusually high level of access to and input in the development of the game.

Discussion in the DDF was closely focused on proposal documents written by Frontier staff as part of the game development process, which were then posted for discussion. Frontier have stated that all posts in the DDF were read by the development team, and developers frequently engaged in discussions and dialogue on the forum, sometimes starting polls to gauge community feeling. However, the final decision on all aspects of development remained with Frontier.

DDF members received no in-game privileges, but David Braben suggested during the Kickstarter that DDF members would collectively have "god-like powers" to help shape the evolving galaxy, making meta-game decisions like how NPCs would respond to player behaviour, e.g. by a faction sending a capital ship to deal with an upsurge of piracy.

All discussion in the DDF, including developer posts, have been made public in the Design Discussion Archive.
 
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