Since most of you probably don't read the council chambers, here's a courtesy head's up with the current state of things.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1167515#post1167515

To answer your question about balance :

At every possible turn, we tell CCP to talk to the community, not just us. We have made it a point internally to not allow ourselves to be used as a balancing tool whenever possible, because there is a much more obvious merit in getting feedback from dozens of people who are usually more knowledgable than we about a given topic.

Surveys are tricky to do, because it's really hard to gauge the feedback or provide adequate options in the first place, except for the most cut and dry of issues.

We'd love to get a lot more "Public feedback Gathering" posts out there, but in all honesty, we need to get more stuff from CCP and permission to actually share that stuff in order to make that a reality with any real merit. Other than that, all we can really do is take someone else's thread and say "CCP. make sure you read this thread extra close, because it makes X point."

Unfortunately, I fear that the ship has sailed for most of the veteran players already. Almost every competitive clan is already making plans for which games they will be playing next. Everyone is so burnt out by the state that this game has been in since release (3 months now) and the apparent apathy CCP has towards its player base that they really could care less anymore. If CCP had started this two months ago they might have saved a lot of their player base. Expect to see a massive drop right after the tournament ends. Many of us had great hope for this game and were willing to give CCP months and months to come around but they have not. We got half-hearted promises of more communication and involvement but then just got the trolling 'community team' and lip service. I know many people who have posted some very great ideas of how to make this game more entertaining and add depth within the limitations that we currently had but the posts void of any type of involvement from CCP.

I would like to say thank you to Fox and Wolf for being two of the more communicative devs out there and it is much appreciated. Unfortunately, any changes now will be too little and too late. CCP has already lost the faith and trust of a lot of its players.

Holding out hope for 1.4, it will be the litmus test of the new release cycles.

If all goes well 1.5 should be the first release largely presided over by CCP Flying Scotsman, I have faith in his ability to get things on track.

To any CCP reading this, I'd like to reiterate the CPM statement; we're here because we want the game to succeed. Let us help you figure some of this stuff out!