5.3.2

[darkwind]

the issue can be with all that though, that as mentioned u can just veto away all balance devs that do not adhere to your principles of "only balance matters", and we would continue getting lack of the fun and user experience in this equation.

Darkwind, bud, this veto doesn't exist. If someone came up with something rad, implemented it, and we shoved it on playtest and it playtested (really) well, it'd just make it into the game. I'm not some boogeyman that blocks progress. In reality, it's checking all those boxes that's the hard part, not getting me to approve something.

Does it? You are balance dev lead. Your vote and opinion pretty much will be for 50% (at minimum.) the only ones mattering in any new balance dev hiring process
The current processes to do any development in Discovery today presume getting applied to Disco team first.

Otherwise if u can try gathering all the feedback from community https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...tid=207817 regarding shape of cloaks, you can try submitting player request with changes at forum proposed. You will receive 2 months silent treatment, zero feedback what is discussed regarding your player request and you will receive ambiguous

After discussion and deliberation the team thinks that a boost to cloaking is not the way forward at present and would be pushing against balance considerations.

There is ZERO transparency, ZERO interactions with feedback to proceed with all that. ZERO discussions what is against the araised points, and how person could MODIFY his request for the request to work. ZERO ways how person could APPEAL to make his possible changes through.
Any person that will TRY contributing in ANY way will just die awaiting 2 months onto attempts of what they suggested.
Any enthusiasm they had to make changes will be dead in two months of zero answers on the ongoing discussion progress.

If we wish CONTRIBUTIONS to work. we need a different level of TRANSPARENCY. at minimum a person should be able to see his own msg of a request he makes and see answers arriving to it before decision was made.
Otherwise it is inifinity trap of a time and effort trying to communicating anything there.
Discovery Team is Multi Hierarchically made system of putting WALLS against input of all players. Against ALL OTHERS even already present in the dev team itself.

I do not believe it is going to work in the way it is established currently. Communication channels needs to be revisioned for that to be possible at all.
Some "Ticket handling" system that allows a person to see its own ticket and interact with dev team should be present for a way to communicate at all.

Player NEEDS to receive any ONGOING progress feedback sooner than before final decision in two month.
multiple INTERACTIONS WITH FEEDBACK should be present for contributions to work.
Players NEED TO KNOW how they can COMMUNICATE (instead of writing to silent wall (of invisibled msgs) with zero visibility until the ambigious final decision)

Since i once again complain, i should suggest a clear visible fix the problem:
i can volunteer in helping establishing such ticketing system.

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