Story Railroading.

[Lemon]

I am sure however the main gripe is not being able to direct story as players. Unfortunately, this cannot happen in the way perhaps Saronsen desires. The story department must absolutely dictate where story is heading, that is their job. We have attempted in the past to do player written story through a discord group, and the results were frankly appalling. It was nothing but a mess of arguing, lobbying purely for ones own faction, and Story "developments" which were nothing more than singular changes that did not fit into any proper narrative and were very short sighted.

Yeah no you are wrong there - Gallia worked when it did, current system is a buddy system with people knowing devs and being friends getting things pushed and receiving feedback, everyone else is in the dark with no impact. Dev plans go ignored for months, there's no feedback at all provided - story feels extremely detached and like you don't even care about what people suggest, unless they are your friends.

I have given up on the story department long ago and powergame player driven stories instead. Many others have done the same as well, and I honestly don't think you guys care - it seems like you prefer to calmly work on your Zootycoon without getting that pesky annoying community involved.

If you at least, you know...gave a fuck and replied to dev plans submitted with some sort of feedback in fast manner, not ignore them either completely or many months later without a single sentense just said "didn't fit with story"