Update on Communication

UberMeg

UberMeg
Wescott said:
One thing about our forum folks is that Sally is considered to be one of the nicest, best CMs and one we look after, as she has tried to look after us, within the parameters, of what she can and cannot do/say. And still she has been amazing, and to think she may be, or may have been poorly resulting form work stess is not good at all..
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Obviously I wouldn't know if that was the case regarding Sally. I'm just a forum user like any else. But since her message it just got me thinking. I've been wondering about how this whole situation with Odyssey has had an affect on real people just trying to do their jobs.

I'm really worried about it.

Elite has one of the most amazing communities I've ever seen. But we've all seen how toxic it can get. Including me, I'm guilty too.

It's nothing to do with me what people say or think, but personally I just think we (Including me) should just pause and think before saying some knee jerk unkind comment.

Like I said, I'm guilty as charged and I hate to think I might have made someone's day at work a bad day, or worse made them ill, over a comment about a video game.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
AstroCriminal said:
Can you put a number on how many is enough because with suggestions like this, will they ever be able to reply to enough comments, or is it they don't comment on the ones you want them to comment on. Your suggestion has little supportive value of becoming a possible reality within a workable sense.
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Sure, a post a day wouldn't go amiss. Maybe even a few here and there.

Its absoloutely workable.

Look at most of us on this forum, we can manage to make a few posts a day even while working, and their job is literally engaging with the community.
 

CaptainPugwash

CaptainPugwash
Agony_Aunt said:
Sure, a post a day wouldn't go amiss. Maybe even a few here and there.

Its absoloutely workable.

Look at most of us on this forum, we can manage to make a few posts a day even while working, and their job is literally engaging with the community.
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I agree: the suggestions threads certainly need acknowledgement, even if it's just a curt "forget it, it's not gonna happen / we're interested / great idea" quick response.
 

Toe4

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Frillop Freyraum said:
As far as consoles are concerned, I could imagine that they have finally realised internally that Odyssey in its current form can bring even high-end PC systems to their knees and they no longer see any way to optimise it further. The crucial question now would be: Should we perhaps do without console support altogether or should we push the current incarnation of Odyssey down to a level that a future console version could reasonably keep up with?

I can tell you one thing right now: if the latter happens (and sometimes lately I suspect it has already begun), I will hate consoles and console players from then on. And @Bottom Hat can finally haz my stuphz (wonderful word that my translator doesn't even try to interfere with).

Whatever they decide, they have now manoeuvred themselves between two stools and will have to achieve the feat of not completely disintegrating the already divided community. This would at least explain why a possible decision-making process is proving to be a pincer birth and is taking so long. The third faction, the VR fans, may also play a not entirely insignificant role in this.
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“Hate console players”, what? Are you still at pre school? Grow up.
 

Mark Zero

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UberMeg said:
Elite has one of the most amazing communities I've ever seen. But we've all seen how toxic it can get. Including me, I'm guilty too.

It's nothing to do with me what people say or think, but personally I just think we (Including me) should just pause and think before saying some knee jerk unkind comment.
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Hey! More of this, and as a newer (2ish years) player, I'll start believing that Elite actually has an amazing community. So far it's just been a bunch of yelling and screaming about frame rates and wanting things, and not a lot of being amazing.

Less toxicity would be very, very welcome.
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
Very offtopic, but since someone else brought it up.

Is there some kind of Squadron 42 demo around? I bought into SC a year or so ago, but haven't really managed to get into the main program and do something useful. Mostly it was slideshow, and lately it crashes as it runs out of RAM. But I haven't seen any sign of S42?
 

Kathryn Kando

Kathryn Kando
LeoBartlet said:
Btw I don't blame the CM's in this its endemic to Frontier as a company to treat player communication as something to be avoided at all costs.
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Exaggeration is exaggerated.

FD is not avoiding communication.

I find FDs Comm of the past not too shabby, the CMs really tried. The issue is the lack of substance of content - not the fault of CMs who bravely presented little nuggets of information to the impatient community.

I don‘t envy them. There is just always to little ready or allowed to be communicated.

In consequence the longer the silence or the shallower the information the more angry CMDRs.

We are at a point where nothing less then a huge roadmap update with substantial additions to the game is needed.

One can only hope there is one.
 

Deleted member 182079

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Mark Zero said:
Hey! More of this, and as a newer (2ish years) player, I'll start believing that Elite actually has an amazing community. So far it's just been a bunch of yelling and screaming about frame rates and wanting things, and not a lot of being amazing.

Less toxicity would be very, very welcome.
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In fairness, I used to frequent a forum for almost 12 years that was ... let's say self-moderating (lax owners who got bought up by a conglomerate, forum's been disbanded since, I guess the content wasn't aligned with the corporate brand of the new owners of the site to put it mildly).

While it was nowhere near anything like 4/8chan and the like, I certainly grew a thick skin there, and the regulars were generally pretty decent people and would tell those who weren't in no uncertain terms where to go (and there were a handful of those, some stuck around like flies to :poop:, constantly getting banned, re-registering and winding people up - there was no limitation on the discussion topics either). It was still a lovable anarchy kind of place in a way, but got between the wheels of the modern, clean, corporate internet.

This place in comparison is like the most well behaved, but also most stricly moderated forum (at times more than I'd like... but I can understand why it is the way it is)... sure, some stuff still flies under the radar but normally tends to get sorted pretty swiftly... I definitely wouldn't consider this forum toxic, even though some individuals can grate now and then but the ignore function works quite well, not that I had to use it in quite a while now. And it's very rare (to my eyes at least) when someone crosses a line; those individuals are usually gone as quickly as they appear, and forgotten from one's memory even quicker.
 
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