• Forums promote trolling - People post so much minutia that anyone who may want to post serious threads expect them to be buried
• Create a Bug/Enhancement List with statuses - If there is something to reference there won't be repeating threads about the same problem (see above)
• Improve your communication with the testers - The emails promote us coming on but since there isn't any way of finding out what/if anything has been improved it's just a crap shoot...
• List specific aspect of the game that Devs need feedback on - This will help us help you...

I know there is an updates list when the game loads but the font in the game is too small and doesn't render very well so it's a waste of time for some of us to read...

• Forums promote trolling - People post so much minutia that anyone who may want to post serious threads expect them to be buried
• Create a Bug/Enhancement List with statuses - If there is something to reference there won't be repeating threads about the same problem (see above)
• Improve your communication with the testers - The emails promote us coming on but since there isn't any way of finding out what/if anything has been improved it's just a crap shoot...
• List specific aspect of the game that Devs need feedback on - This will help us help you...

I know there is an updates list when the game loads but the font in the game is too small and doesn't render very well so it's a waste of time for some of us to read...

• Forums promote trolling - People post so much minutia that anyone who may want to post serious threads expect them to be buried
• Create a Bug/Enhancement List with statuses - If there is something to reference there won't be repeating threads about the same problem (see above)
• Improve your communication with the testers - The emails promote us coming on but since there isn't any way of finding out what/if anything has been improved it's just a crap shoot...
• List specific aspect of the game that Devs need feedback on - This will help us help you...

I know there is an updates list when the game loads but the font in the game is too small and doesn't render very well so it's a waste of time for some of us to read...

I already suggested it once, but maybe I should do it again.

The whole thing should run like a Mindthread, which is similar to a Mindmap but incorporates a forum-like feature. Instead of the bulletin board style it starts with DUST as the main node, then we have nodes similar to the forums like general and Announcements, Tech and Suggestions.

Now people may start a node suggestion like "Balancing Issues of Assault Rifles" (just the title, no text). Now the other users might vote on the node to indicate the moderators that they find the topic useful or not. If the general opinion is positive towards opening up the node, or the devs like it, the node is spawned and any Tester is allowed to add his personal node to it which is exactly ONE Post where the OP and all the others can:

• share their opinion
• comment
• suggest
• report
• complain

The advantage will be that the spawning of topic nodes will be controlled and slightly delayed which will stop quite a lot of ranting and trolling as there is time to cool down the tempers. Addtitionally it would stop side topics being simply overrun by ten thousands of "NERF THis !*@!-º" threads. IF a player has an opinion he can look up the existing nodes ''(which is much faster than petitioning a new node, which could always fail) and add his personal opinion which can of course be edited as an opinion may change over time. If the topics isn't there yet, the player could just start a new node suggestion.

An additional feature would be to add your personal node with a node you like/support instead of the main "Balancing Issued of Assault Rifles" node (which will show that your opinion is covered by somebody else already and you support it). Another trick would be connecting nodes with red, blue and green lines (red being a dislike, green a like and blue a neutral connection - like piloting topics of LAVs and HAVs could be neutally connected)

Similar to a mind map this would quickly show positive and negative interconnectivity

• Forums promote trolling - People post so much minutia that anyone who may want to post serious threads expect them to be buried
• Create a Bug/Enhancement List with statuses - If there is something to reference there won't be repeating threads about the same problem (see above)
• Improve your communication with the testers - The emails promote us coming on but since there isn't any way of finding out what/if anything has been improved it's just a crap shoot...
• List specific aspect of the game that Devs need feedback on - This will help us help you...

I know there is an updates list when the game loads but the font in the game is too small and doesn't render very well so it's a waste of time for some of us to read...

hey i amstill waiting on what games you helped develop

Mr Dev

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I am TRYING to be productive, not feed the idiots. BTW, I never said game dev... Game devs are but an EXTREMELY small segment of application development so **** off.

Well I for my case do develop solutions for environmental engineering purposes to fill the needs that I sometimes find in my job.

• Forums promote trolling - People post so much minutia that anyone who may want to post serious threads expect them to be buried
• Create a Bug/Enhancement List with statuses - If there is something to reference there won't be repeating threads about the same problem (see above)
• Improve your communication with the testers - The emails promote us coming on but since there isn't any way of finding out what/if anything has been improved it's just a crap shoot...
• List specific aspect of the game that Devs need feedback on - This will help us help you...

I know there is an updates list when the game loads but the font in the game is too small and doesn't render very well so it's a waste of time for some of us to read...

Wow... I guess when faced with a good idea that requires them to do something they would rather ignore the thread. The only reason they provide the forum must be so we can kiss their asses and tell them they have a good product. Unfortunately I won't and they don't so why should I or anyone else waste our time here.

These forums are also here with all their drap postings to build us a community for DUST, besides that DEVS do read these forums even if they don't post.