Private Server still planned?

[Heurazio]

@Havok40k

Well firstly I don’t think it’s appropriate to compare monetization and progression mechanics in the same way.

You are right with this. I’ve gone far over the point what i really wanted to say. To make a cut here “I’d be fine if we need to pay a fee”. This opinion might be unpopular but i stated out why …

Now the rest

@Havok40k

“we just want to surprise you about something”

Surprises are a double-edged sword, maybe they work out well, maybe the community tear it in pieces (last seen on Blocks and the Battery update where the devs face ~90% rejection with a surprise that was meant well).

@Havok40k

“we’re working on boring backend compatibility stuff and there is nothing interesting and finished enough to show you, like the C++ thing we shared days (not months) ago.”

Oh but this is a really interesting one. For me it was a pleasure to read the status update and c++ article. This is something that shows they are working and they know what they do.
under the motto: any news are good news

@Havok40k

In the mean time, they have still been dropping concept art to placate the hunger for content.

Maybe i need to be more direct on this one … i tried to make this clear several times but perhaps my language mastery (bad ) prevents native speaker to understand me.
I LIKE TO SEE GAMEPLAY-CONCEPTS NOT CONCEPT-ART … I’d be fine if we had lester a lot longer and in different colors Concept art, models or any sort of “art” can be replaced without great efforts (only the time required to make a new one) but a gameplay-mechanism that is in-place is hart to remove or replace because there are a lot of dependencies (keyword “costs in software testing” or if you prefere a NASA-Article (page 2) [it’s about bugs but in this case bad-gameplay is worse than a bug]). Why risk the game with bad game-play decisions if they have the chance to clear it up in the beginning befor implementation or before the final version ? (that’s what “object-orientated-analysis/design” and “agile-development” is called: evaluate your customers needs => prototype => test => change your prototype => test => change => …)

@Havok40k

Lastly, I want to point out that constantly answering to the communities every whim is costly. Every hour spent by a developer to put together an info packet, a live stream, a Q&A is an hour not spent developing. Every forum post defending their decision to take x approach instead of y approach is keystrokes not committed to the furthering of the game.

Programming is NOT assembly line work. This is one of the most important things to know. There are times where you are highly productiv and there are times when you spend a lot of time / budged on “thinking” about things (software-design, software-achitecture). And within this phases of “thinking” and “team communication” it would be a good idea to write some words and ideas down (this should be done anyway … solid specification). And if you already wrote something down you can format them and publish them … no magic and not a lot of time lost.

@Havok40k

Perhaps you would like to suggest they hire a community manager whose sole purpose is to interact with the community? Sounds expensive.

I’d do it for free … but again … the language mastery i spend my skill-points on other things

EDIT: @Havok40k … man … every time we talk this is going this way … really don’t wanted to open up this topic again (especially because there is a better place to talk about such things)