5.3.2

[Haste]

Alright, I'm not going to reply to these entire rant posts as this is simply not the place for this discussion, so I'll respond to one final point.

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.

You are incredibly wrong.

Balance is an iterative process. Changes are made and then tested, and then further tuned as required based on testing. It is extremely rare that we get to just make a fire-and-forget change that gets shipped directly to prod unless it's a very simple and predictable change. People who are interested in influencing this process can do so either as balance developers, but a much lower (near zero, really) barrier to entry would be participating in the playtesting process. You get to literally be there, on voice chat, trying changes and providing feedback. Ideas can be tried out in minutes -- provided they're number changes and not large-scale reworks, of course.

Balance is the department that sends out hundreds of playtest zips of the entire mod where previously something like that was unheard of. "Zero transparency" is such an absurd claim in that context.

Your approach has been to make polls that effectively say "Hey, would you like everything you've ever used to be more powerful and better with no drawbacks (without considering that this might just make the game worse in general)?" You make the equivalent of polls asking people "Hey, would you like free money?" and then point at them and demand change. This is, indeed, not how it works, and I don't see myself ever operating that way. Especially not when it comes to balance.

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