in a company, being the guy that owns everything "makes" you able to enforce your dictatorial power in a company where you are assigned by the board, you are elected democratically mostly (but the board isnt, because they technically "own" the company, they can be compared to the "citisens" of a country same as all the belgians together "own" belgium, and the belgian state just rules the country "in name of" the people, they might not agree directly with the majority but they where chosen by the people to lead the people whereas in a company the workers have no right to vote, because they can be compared to horces pulling carts, they make the farm work, get there life sustained by the farm but do not have a say in how the farm is run, ofcourse working people are not horses, and need more care then simple horses working on a farm, but that is only for the better, because people deserve that)
SMG2 is so shit in 2.24d that it's unusable. SMG1 is near the same. Damage buff and accuracy nerf. Rifle1s aren't much different. Damage buff, accuracy nerf.
Democracy doesn't work in anything Empires related really, especially development. You only have to look at what would ever get changed if it was down to democratic vote (i.e. nothing), to understand this. Of course, that's not to say what we want to happen, happens...but if it's real bad it usually gets changed...eventually.
Frankly, in game development period it doesn't work. For one thing, the people who post on forums are not your entire audience. Self-selection ensures huge bias. Secondly, the individual is not informed. There are many aspects of the game that can be perceived as imbalanced, but might be just fine because there's a built-in counter that no one knows how to use. With perfect knowledge from everyone balance could work, but we don't have that. The people with the best knowledge are the devs. Sure there are fundamental problems that we can as a whole say need to be fixed, but running something from a democratic system will lead to too much clamor for different individual perceptions of what the game should be. Let the devs sort it all out and pick the best ideas that fit their idea of the game.
I read an interesting interview at RPS with the developer of Natural Selection. Especially on point is the part where he is asked what makes a mod successful: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/31/the-making-of-natural-selection/#more-20477
I don't even think that the devs for empires have even done this, or if they have they have done it in a way that still pisses people off
That's not chocolate.... I totally agree. Like I said in my other post http://forums.empiresmod.com/member.php?u=2422
I wasn't aware anything was stagnating. Is there a link to what needs to be done on the wiki somewhere? I think there's more to this community in terms of development power then is let on, but I always have this conception that there is some sort of super high calibre stuff going on in the inner circle of developers... or whatever hideous form Krenzo has now mutated into :D
Are you implying that the Krenzo was never a real person but instead a symbol that is kept alive? It sounds like the plot of some scifi movie...
Isn't it like...sort out current balance, add a fuckton of stuff to pimp out squads and the commander, redo the gui, add a few things to make infantry a little more autonomous of the commander in certain situations (e.g. can drop own refs), repairing the classes and rehauling the scout...then the big stuff like aircraft, tech tree rehauls, global domination plans, more gamer girls... Looks like a lot :p Now i'm scared
True...but it's a little more clear cut than rehauling the whole tech tree to about 2.5x the size, and balancing every item :p They're really in no particular order, just that some things should come after the others.
Suggested release plan: Fix all the small bugs in current SVN version and release it end of January. It contains already many nice new features. Version number could be 2.3 because there were more changes then from 2.23 to 2.24. Then release every month (if needed) a small update for bug fixes and balance issues.
And by balance issues, you mean simply fixing the previous fucked up release, and bug fixing bugs brought in with the previous fucked up release. Keep doing until boredom ensues.
I want to know the plans of this Gui redo. Not just the 'safe for release because we already have screenshots of it' plans, but the plan plans that nobody talks about because there aren't any to talk about and you should just turn that car right around before someone gets hurt. ...Wait, I'm sorry, where was I?
No one is doing a GUI in the foreseeable future. I'll just say that to prevent devs repeating themselves.
