FLS, Decisions before the weekend please

[The Dragonfly]

With the subject 2.11 being so decisive to the future of the game, I'm very frustrated that there appears nothing from FLS in the news or devlogs all this week (please somebody tell me that I missed something somewhere else). I think it is fair to say that the overwhelming feedback was predominantly against 2.11 (except for the new raters), to the extend that players, me included, are on the verge of leaving and are getting impatient, some might have left already.

And please don't just go "we will review the skill changes", we need a clear and simple "yes or no" to "will skill changes be dropped".

And if it is really just about attracting fresh blood to the player base, I think there were more than enough good ideas posted, so there would be no loss of face for cancelling 2.11. In fact it would be a huge confidense boost to the players, if even just some of their ideas and suggestions would be picked up.

For now though a decision either way before the week is out would be much appreciated.

[reddevil028]

Originally Posted by fls devlog The absolute worst thing for us to do at this stage would be to force it on to the live servers just because that was our original plan. Instead, we are going to make changes gradually. This means that we will not be eliminating all of the existing skills from the game in 2.11

Means, its going to stay quite the same except for some minor changes i am sure

[The Dragonfly]

The first sentence gives you hope, the second leaves you unclear of anything, which is even worse, but there is no clarity. That's why I'm (and most likely many others are) looking for a clear and simple decision. Dragging it out is worse than a straight out yes to all of 2.11.

PS: Many others may also like a decision on the ship nerfs, secondary for me though.

[CaptainWallace]

I get the impression there are lots of meetings going on at FLS at the moment. I don't think they are willing to just cancel the whole 2.11 patch but based on feedback they are re-evaluating it and possibly deciding on tweaks. That will take a little time and I believe that is why it has all gone a bit quiet. I expect more news over the course of the next week or so.

[Seolenmina]

/completely agree

[Grutte Pier]

Originally Posted by CaptainWallace I get the impression there are lots of meetings going on at FLS at the moment. I don't think they are willing to just cancel the whole 2.11 patch but based on feedback they are re-evaluating it and possibly deciding on tweaks. That will take a little time and I believe that is why it has all gone a bit quiet. I expect more news over the course of the next week or so.

meetings? how much people you need before its a meeting?
id be surprised if theres more then 3 people there.
i cant believe 2,11 is the work of multiple people,
someone shpuld have noticed......

[Capitane Jean]

Consider the ammount of buzz on the forums here after the Rough draft 2.11 was presented, I think they're going to take some more care not to upset people in the same manner as they just did. If they say "yes it's all going in" with the current thing on testbed, it's going to be a huge loss - if they on the other hand say that nothing is going in, they will get tons upon tons of excrement thrown at them if they at a later stage announce that some of these ideas are going in any anyways.

[Remus]

Originally Posted by Rhaegar We'll have GMs on Test Server after the next version of 2.11 is pushed to it this week.

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[Rakam LeSanglant]

Originally Posted by The Dragonfly With the subject 2.11 being so decisive to the future of the game, I'm very frustrated that there appears nothing from FLS in the news or devlogs all this week (please somebody tell me that I missed something somewhere else). I think it is fair to say that the overwhelming feedback was predominantly against 2.11 (except for the new raters), to the extend that players, me included, are on the verge of leaving and are getting impatient, some might have left already. And please don't just go "we will review the skill changes", we need a clear and simple "yes or no" to "will skill changes be dropped". And if it is really just about attracting fresh blood to the player base, I think there were more than enough good ideas posted, so there would be no loss of face for cancelling 2.11. In fact it would be a huge confidense boost to the players, if even just some of their ideas and suggestions would be picked up. For now though a decision either way before the week is out would be much appreciated.

What if they don't answer before the weekend ... your gonna hold your breath until they do ?

[Josh_Brown]

Originally Posted by Remus Originally Posted by Rhaegar We'll have GMs on Test Server after the next version of 2.11 is pushed to it this week.

Yeah, they said "this week".

They also said

Originally Posted by Half-Hitch We intend to ease the learning curve for new players without “dumbing the game down” for veteran players

and the current Test Build is both harder to understand and dumbed-down painfully even compared to RNG AvCom.

I'd like to say I'm optimistic, or even skeptical, but right now it's a dead heat between pessimism and cynicism.