Noc assumes he knows how the developers are going to fix a bug.

Except one thing Noc, I am going to end it.

You're fired, and I am not going to re-explain why I am firing you and don't come begging again to get unfired.

I know just addressing people like Noc has never resulted in anything positive and hasn't been so for the last year despite being proven wrong dozens of times.

There is a meeting with the game designers and the CPM soon and we're going to get into the nitty gritty of what is being worked on while I only have small idea what can potentially be in 1.4 there is nothing solid and nothing is code locked so this is opportunity to get things adjusted before they're final.

Suicide is painless

This is why CCP fails they simply dont know how to foster a good player-developer interaction, True Grit as always the obvious exception.

and actually know a thing or two about product development, software design, and have some ideas on game balance that I promote

Take a look at the "Dev Posts' section sometime.

Its pretty much Nullarbor, FoxFour, and a post or two from Mintchip and Logibro.

Its kind of sad really. People wonder why we're all so frustrated by the lack of communication.

So there is going to be a meeting where a bunch of non vehicle users are going to give advice to devs who have already proven balance is beyond them. This will turn out great.

No discussions with the vehicle users, and you want people to have faith?

What has CCP implemented without feedback that has gone over well? Only one that wasn't a complete flop was the scrambler rifle.

The CPM gets more than enough combined complaints about vehicles to have a pretty good picture that if something were to get added we can have a gist of the response is going to be. So far the 'consensus' of feeling has been spot on so far including on things CCP doesn't do. CCP has very capable individuals about to design and rethink things over and well as their own ideas of balance to which goes beyond the simple information that we as players have access too. The best the CPM can really give is basically a sounding board that they are at least listening to the complaints and doing the footwork on reading for possible solutions and coming to an reasonable adjustment or tell CCP that they're crazy and if they go through with a certain change you guys are going to explode a bit. However this in itself is a work in progress in trying to get more teams to communicate more to you and to the CPM.

For example we (the CPM) been pestering the team involved in poking that bug that has gotten everyone upset, conveyed what the bug is doing for some players and what it isn't doing, and the best way to approach it's fixing. Which after a short talk the bug is the sort that does need squashing because its not the simple typo type of mistake and may be screwing up not just armor modules but possibly other areas as well. For now the CPM is urging to not deploy the fix unless without an accompanying balance pass unless it was absolutely necessary, which we won't know about until the bug's investigation is complete.

I've been playing this game for free except for the one $20 pack I bought (Which I still have 12k Aur left).

CCP has very capable individuals about to design and rethink things over and well as their own ideas of balance to which goes beyond the simple information that we as players have access too.

However this in itself is a work in progress in trying to get more teams to communicate more to you and to the CPM.

For example we (the CPM) been pestering the team involved in poking that bug that has gotten everyone upset, conveyed what the bug is doing for some players and what it isn't doing, and the best way to approach it's fixing.

Which after a short talk the bug is the sort that does need squashing because its not the simple typo type of mistake and may be screwing up not just armor modules but possibly other areas as well. For now the CPM is urging to not deploy the fix unless without an accompanying balance pass unless it was absolutely necessary, which we won't know about until the bug's investigation is complete.