Game Development Chit Chat

[Captain Jack]

Ahoy all,

Like I promised, in late August I will attempt to clear up all existing suggestions. This was the first day of this attempt and much to my surprise it is taking a whole more time than I initially thought. There is much forum moderating also being done (moving topics to proper threads, ie from suggestions to game discussion or game discussion to Help, etc).

Another problem I have encountered and I have not thought about, is that I end up spamming up the forums greatly, even though I have not commented to each of the suggestions I revised.

A third issue that I have encountered is that there are many interesting ideas floating at General Discussion, where great care and mass participation has already been invested there. These ideas cannot lose their priority just because we are clearing up suggestions thread now.

I will surely find ways to solve all three issues I fore-mentioned. I am just informing you all of what is going on right now. Sure thing is that no implementation will start yet. We want to establish new tradition starting from this August where there will be no new implementations during this month. As I already mentioned a couple of times, this is a weird month for us in terms of workforce capacity so it is better to avoid new implementations during August.

So, we will all await September 1 to see some of the approved suggestions to get implemented. The most certain thing is that without a fast pace of implementing these ideas, we risk to devalue the whole process so if need be, I am going to slow down my revision pace to meet the implementation pace.

Regarding big features, our priority remains the Stock Market for credits, as already discussed. I am sure that more people in comparison to when it was initially suggested, will find this a good idea.

As always, feel free to share your thoughts!

[Strangesoldier]

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[Shadowood]

Jack,

Is is possible to give us like the top 5 things to come next and maybe an ETA? You mentioned Stock Market for Credits, but what is next after that? And any ETA's would be amazing to know (ballpark of course).

[Haron]

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That says it all, I think. Well put!

Not knowing what an "ETA" is, this might be exactly what Shadowood asks, but: Giving us some general idea about the direction you would like the game to move in, would help a lot when making suggestions. Should we think in terms of more naval combat? Are processess inside ports, like production of goods, going to be more important? Should we expect mechanichs related to nations to get some focus? If more action is desired, are there any types of action that are preferrable? General information about such things would be nice.

More specific matters: Will the witch hut be implemented, and if so, how? Should we keep suggestion "Legendary Curses", or will that not happen? There was talk about gems - is this something to move forward with, or should the idea be considered dead? What about national diplomacy - and "Wars and Blockades"? Are there any of these things that you, the admins, have concluded will definitely NOT happen, so we can stop thinking about them?

[DezNutz]

ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival

For PG is more ETI (Estimated Time of Implementation)

[Bmw]

i dont think anyone should mind the fourm spam by the administrator it at least means there looking at the fourms