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 :(

I would like to direct your attention to This and this.

We are, at this moment, closed beta testers. Although some are trolling...there are some very good discussions and suggestions being made. But honestly, we don't know if it is falling on deaf ears. There are no interviews, no response to our requests, no announcements of improvements, etc.

We are going to be in this beta for more than a year and we don't know what's going on or what to expect. At the very least...you can provide Official Polls on issues for us to vote on. So, when the results are in, you will know where the community stands and we can expect those sort of changes to be made.

I don't know..just ranting again because I have no idea what direction this game is heading to. I'm refreshing the announcements section every half-hour looking for an update (just kidding). We have all of these issues that needs to be fixed but we have no idea when a new build is coming or what to expect from a new build. If you guys are going to implement more features that will stop all of our QQing all over this forum then announce it so that we can stop.

Because you are going to lose your playerbase. I am sure that people are actively participating in the beta but yet going to other games and telling other players that it sucks....before the game even comes out. Personally, I like the game and I want it to succeed but I can't speak for everyone.

So, just please....keep us motivated and excited. Because honestly, most of these testers are your pre-marketing vehicles. By word of mouth, they can create and maintain the hype or destroy it.

*exhales*

I've posted on this topic twice, doesn't seem to help. I agree we need more direction with what they want us to test (besides everything).

If we had some idea of where they are going with this game it would help. Sometimes I don't know if they know. Such potential.

I personally think that is quiet around here cause there is probably a patch in QA atm. They would never tell us. I believe there was a bit of a lull from CCP just prior to release of the previous builds, so my best guess is that is why were not hearing very much from them as compared to a few weeks ago.

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.

Whaaaat?? They actively respond on eve forums?? I feel like the adopted child now.

Ay, ccp...I've bought 3 merc packs in less than 12 weeks. I know a guy that bought the $99 bundle. And this is still just a beta so..please...we are important too

Whaaaat?? They actively respond on eve forums?? I feel like the adopted child now.

Ay, ccp...I've bought 3 merc packs in less than 12 weeks. I know a guy that bought the $99 bundle. And this is still just a beta so..please...we are important too

CCP is still by far the best at communicating with their gamers.

CCP has really bad communication channels. You call change in timings for tourneys, bad managed tourneys, confusions in updates "by far the best at communicating"? I have been a gamer for over 20 years. I have played the ataris and nintendos. I have gamed on x80s, 286s,386s, 486s and above. I have played every console there is to play and every company that has produced any games. And me tell you this;- CCP is the worst when it comes to communication.

Look at the state of the forums. It is pathetic. You have devs over stepping genuine ides/feedbacks and themselves too. Support takes it own sweet time in getting back to you unless its something really serious.

The Corp tourneys in the second week were delayed and once started soon. All they posted about it was in the forums. You think everyone is on the forums all the time?

Polls is a good idea but CCP never uses it. Popular vote counts not what everyone keeps QQing about.

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

[FEEDBACK/ISSUE] Dropships and Missiles imbalance
Update: A number of tweaks and improvements to missiles have been made and are planned for deployment in the next beta update/hotfixes. Some of the changes include improvements to missile tracking and speed stats, more tuning for the small and large missile turrets. Countermeasures are also planned for future updates.

Honestly, someone posted a link to a section on the forum (in this thread) where they have discuss certain fixes. I wasn't aware of it before he posted it. I assumed there wasn't an answer because people kept posting about it. So, now I'm going to browse through them all and just stay in tuned there. But thanks