Simple reasoning is that most forum readers can act like 3 year olds (such as the one question of why the av nerf had ot happen was very rudely asked) and thus any developer post made is treated like prohpecy and people get very very upset when miracles dont happen.

Which is another reason why I paraphrased everything they said. if something doenst happen. well you have to skin me first.

nothing is stopping anyone from spending some time and reading instructions to get into IRC channel

also i call this community building. when other players do the community work.

Trust me I am no favorite of the developers I probably cause more work than they wanted.

The developers have a log of all thier outer game comms about cept the voice ones if they're ever on those. The CCP in IRC are normally just logging bots though but they do poke thier heads in to say hi or tell us something they fixed or use us for experiments (I think we lost one duster so far because of these experiments)

Uhm nope, its not like a special club you need super secret codes to get into. The channel is mostly sharing feedback in smaller lines at a time and mostly refelcts the forum complaints thoughout the day.

The pulling a voulnteer out for an experiment would be like...

CCP Developer> I need a voulentteer
Voulenteer guy that was just complaining about tanks being OP> Pick me!
CCP Developer> I need you to jump in this fire, possibly blow up your ps3 and tell me how it feels when you do.
Voulnteer> Okaies! Runs off and gets data! ARRRGH it burns! and my PS3 keeps crashing!
CCP Developer> Very Interesting *scribbels stuff down on notepad, then runs off

Utimately its things you really really dont want the entier gamer testing base to experince.

Far as I know it would be matching up nearer to eve online's winter expansion.

Either way when they're ready.

Next build from what I been hearing so far is show worthy It would not surprise me if NDA gets lifted then.

What makes you think that a poll of the "community" is a good idea? Because people who play video games as a hobby 5-20 hours per week does not make their points on creating a video game valid, IMO.

Does Roger Goodell (the commissioner of the NFL) take polls of everyone who attends a game or watches on TV...NO. Why, just because someone is a fan of football doesn't mean they know how to run a league or make it more competitive or know anything constructive about the professional football.

Do NFL fans post on Internet forums and let their opinions be heard, yes. Do they let the NFL know what they think, yes. and if there is a large enough movement by fans, than the NFL can address it.

Same goes here, popular posts and opinions get addressed by the devs regularly and they take feedback on theorems and t hen have to determine if they agree with opinion/complaint and then prioritize fixing it.

Not every acehole with an opinion knows how to make a video game nor do they know what is required to fix, adjust, or create elements in a video game to "make it better"

Multiple Stage Maps/Game Modes
'Yes they're comming back but not skirmish mode the skirmish fell apart with the overly favoring the defenders.'

What does this mean? They're not actually getting rid of skirmish are they or am I reading that wrong?

30 is kind of an arbitrary number. Why choose it?

Here some issues just off the top of my head.

1. Hit detection sucks
2. Controls are terrible and need redone
3. Range on weapons is stupid, I can hold my SMG on tsrget and have a chance 9m away, but 10m away I don'tland a single hit.
4. The feedback on when you get hits is terrible, don't know if one or everyone of my hits are landing.
5. Skills that improve a guns stats like weapon damage
6. Tanks > infantry
7. Games movement is too slow for the amount of health we have.
8. Skill is usually overturned by lag or the fact that the person your facing has grinded for SP longer.

Thats just a few of the issues I see. I have heard them voiced several times and zippo feedback from devs

And I don' even play that much so I am not totally sure if these are the only ones either.

Going back to my quick list of issues,

# 5 I think was damage increased by gun stats.
- Personally I think that increasing material stats such as damage a bullet does per shot is bad in an FPS game. Same with fire rate in automatic weapons or such. Base gun stats should be pretty similar between a new player and an old player, the old players gun shouldn't somehow be more damaging that the new players because he is "skilled" at it.

Things such as bein certified to operate a weapon, compensate for recoil, hold steady to reduce barrel wander, reload faster, swap faster, fire steady for a longer time, and other more physically related skills make sense. But no amount of training is going to make a gun hit harder.

On the #7 movement issue, I believe the game should be faster as in movement speed. Initially I wanted the game slowed down, but I have decided otherwise since E3 build. The game benefits from faster movement. Not drastically faster, just a buff combined with fixed hit detection to help keep scouts from being OP again.
Also I believe that stamina could use a buff, you do so much running it takes forever on foot, and vehicles are too expensive to use as a regular infantry. The militia LAV is also tin foil armor, so it dies really fast too.

As for your answers to my other issues, they have been "fixing" hit detection for 3 builds now. I will believe it when I see it.

They have said skills will have more of an impact than they currently do on passive bonus's during the next build and i think that's going to change things again when people realise their fittings are what makes them surive, not their SP or choice of actual dropsuit.

It's all about the fittings.

The guy up there posted about being a bad ass the more you play, that's fine and good, but you still need to be able to die to someone below you or Dust will suffer the same fate of MAG and get a good, solid, loyal fanbase but it won't get any new blood because they won't be able to compete with older corps.

Sorry to say, but MMORPG mechanics don't translate well into FPS's.

The edge should be in modules on eah suit since you have to trade off other modules to get those.

Skills have no limiter or tradeoff so making you "more awesome" just sucks for new guys. And just discourages use of specialization in modules and such.