Deleting systems poll UPDATE

[Prysin]

There have been many replies since my post that I am going to struggle to address appropriately.

Posting on the forums some heads up about upcoming Development (free of spoilers), posting CNS news articles (perhaps in an abbreviated form or made vague to encourage people to also read station news?) are both things that we can do to help with "transparency", but as evidenced by some of the replies to myself and other devs, in order for this to work people need to come to the table without prejudice.

A certain level of civility is needed or, as was the case with the Discovery Working Group (DWG) that I actively argued should be shut down after seeing countless devs burn out after engaging in lengthy discussions with players who in many cases were aggressive and caused massive time sinks that were rarely productive, this kind of transparency is not going to last long especially when you consider the amount of effort required to formulate things, so they are easy to understand.

Seeing my previous post, which was an earnest attempt to give everyone a frank explanation of what we are doing (without hiding hard truths) be responded to with a lot of anger, certainly does not however fill me with a great amount of confidence.

Adding roleplay elements ingame, such as the station news etc sounds like a good idea. Depending on the wording, it can allow a wide range of options for the devteam, whilst also giving months worth of notice to players.

I think such an effort should definetively be considered. It is a right step towards transparency.

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