The more info from CCP the better. I know the employees have an NDA they can't break and probably they often don't know what they can or cannot talk about. Remember when one employee said we'd get three new maps in the next update and we only had ONE map... Yeah, I bet he is still in the dungeon.

CCP please give us more information when you can, even more replies to peoples thread: "I'll bring this up in the next meeting." - "We've discussed this issue before and are exploring fixes." "I personally like this idea."

Additionally Soon(tm) feels almost insulting :(

Agreed and the weekly update threads nice as they are don't help us in knowing what to concentrate on and are limited to quite technical stuff.

We need this forum to look a lot more like the eve forums does on good days. Where devs discuss current and upcoming features. Where players say things like "ehh have you fought about X regarding new feature Y" and devs is back a few days later saying "thanks, we didn't think about that we will do Z instead". We are not game designers we aren't supposed to be but as players we have a different perspective and can find problems that CCP don't think about even before things are even coded or deployed.

So CCP save time and money by talking to us. (ehh not me because I don't know jack about FPS:s)

Sure don't spill the beans on everything but there must be things that you can discuss.

Ehh. I feel kinda iffy on this. I respect CCP a lot, and I do feel like they care about their community. But they could use more communication especially on the forums. I wish they would be more open about their plans, what they are trying to acheive in the next build, what they want ideas on, etc. but then also they should try to reply to good feedback and discussions. Certainly not every forum post, but at least say, "thanks for the input, I like X suggestion" or maybe, "well, this isn't concrete, but we have been tossing around idea Y for the warbarge, any suggestions?"

If people QQ about a change in plans, ignore them. If people have a reasonable complaint about a change of plans, hear them out. The benefit of revealing more to the community would outweigh the downsides.

I mean, really. CCP has only so many workers to tackle a problem. Throw a bone out to the community, and say, "How should Skyfires work?" Then you got thousands of minds working on it for free. You dont have to use evey suggesion, but the ideas that are good were free and didn't take up CCP's time.

Just my 0.02 ISK

Internet relay chat.

OP has obviously not been around for many builds.

So far it's appeared to me that the fixes released have been the fixes / changes we asked for (and more than once we've gotten to choke on it).

As for CCP giving us info before the build releases, why should they? We just ignore it and continue to rant and rave over things they have already told us were fixed in the upcoming build (swarm launchers and militia dropships anyone?)

I see updates at least weekly from the devs, and I don't even look hard.

Test the game, provide CCP with feedback, and have fun - in that order.

So far the 2 bugs I've reported have been fixed, 3 of the things I've asked for (along with others) in the forums hacve been implimented. I kinda like that form of feedback, rather than make promises they put out increasingly better builds - which is a game develper's job. Telling you "yes we read your post, yes we're looking into it" after every one of the complaints and crybaby posts in the forum is not only NOT a developer's job, it would be a HUGE waste of time that they could (and should) be spending getting as many fixes coded into the next build before release.