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New year 2014 brings some changes to how we handle development of proposed ideas. It has been discussed and agreed that a lower passing rate of 75% is better suited to the current development of the game, which represents a decrease of 5% from the old 80% pass grade. We do not have as many active members as we used to have in the forum (unfortunately) and we have started to see a trend where even a slightly controversial idea has little to no chance of passing if the pass mark is so high.
This in turn forced us to revise another change where we will keep the votes public. We are hoping that each player, reads the proposal and understands the content before casting a vote on the matter and a public vote might just be needed to give players a tiny bit of incentive to substantiate their votes. The other reason is that it would be slightly easier to spot any malicious manipulation of the poll.
Harassment of players regarding their vote will not be accepted, we are each entitled to our opinions.
I have tried to get the developers attention to provide us with some feedback and this is what I have learned: The West has many servers and each has a similar development process available for forum users. To get feedback for .net would mean all other language servers will have to have the same privilege, and InnoGames just cannot spare their staff to do that. Instead, our passed ideas are reviewed periodically and if they coincide with the planned development of the game, some of those might be incorporated in the grand plan. You should understand that the developers of The West have their own workload according to some planned organisation goals (road map) and are not strictly at our disposal. One improvement that has been made in my opinion is with the community reports where we are informed on the current development. This still doesn't help us with feedback to passed ideas, but at least we know what is being planned at the moment.
So the conclusion is that at the moment we have unrealistic chances of getting feedback on passed ideas and can only hope than in the future this will change.
This in turn forced us to revise another change where we will keep the votes public. We are hoping that each player, reads the proposal and understands the content before casting a vote on the matter and a public vote might just be needed to give players a tiny bit of incentive to substantiate their votes. The other reason is that it would be slightly easier to spot any malicious manipulation of the poll.
Harassment of players regarding their vote will not be accepted, we are each entitled to our opinions.
I have tried to get the developers attention to provide us with some feedback and this is what I have learned: The West has many servers and each has a similar development process available for forum users. To get feedback for .net would mean all other language servers will have to have the same privilege, and InnoGames just cannot spare their staff to do that. Instead, our passed ideas are reviewed periodically and if they coincide with the planned development of the game, some of those might be incorporated in the grand plan. You should understand that the developers of The West have their own workload according to some planned organisation goals (road map) and are not strictly at our disposal. One improvement that has been made in my opinion is with the community reports where we are informed on the current development. This still doesn't help us with feedback to passed ideas, but at least we know what is being planned at the moment.
So the conclusion is that at the moment we have unrealistic chances of getting feedback on passed ideas and can only hope than in the future this will change.