@james @ben Do you guys have any sort of incremental release schedule that you’re working towards?
I fully understand if you don’t want to commit to anything on the forums. I was just wondering if you were working to a fortnightly / monthly release cycle for a minimum viable product, or a case of “it’s ready when it’s ready”.
Speaking for myself personally, I know I am chomping at the proverbial bit for news of the next release!
I wanted to ask this question soon too.
I know that you can’t tell us every day what you are working on and i realy appreciate that you make a survey about beacons but in my opinion you are sharing too few informations about the development cycle.
A lot of discussions in the forum are build on outdated informations(this is only one example). I can not imagine how this can help you in any way. it’s not fun anymore to participate in discussions since we usually don’t get any feedback from you! 
In my opinion this is unacceptable for a EA game in which some people spend a lot of money!
I would appreciate it if we - the community - are informed prior to major changes and / or asked for our opinion (Is this not one of the reasons why we spend money on EA ?!) ! Ofc you are free to do what you think is the best for the game … but at least i like to be informed!!!
I would also appreciate it if you could make a weekly or monthly Information Day where you tell us what you are working on, what the current goals are or what problems you are facing(This has been asked several times). I saw this at Kerbal Space Programm where they had a “Devnode Tuesday” once a week. This worked pretty well for the KSP community.
there are also no new news on the offical page since October 2. 2015 (Release 113). Why don’t you update the official Page? Afaik we have already had realse 115 ?! So in fact we don’t got any new news since Oort has become B< (this are now almost 3 months … you shared only some concept art). I think the official homepage should be a business card for your product and there is only little current information.
EDIT: In response to @vdragon: I don’t say Update 115 is not available for us to play … i say it’s not mentioned on the offical page which is bad advertising because a feature that is available is not mentioned! if i where new to the game and spot not coincident feature sets on Steam Page <-> Official Page I would be skeptical!
I hope you (@james, @ben) take some time and review your information policy with respect to the community!
which should never be the case normally
if you want more people you need to update the pages.
If you dont update the page, people will think the game is dead. if a game seems like dead no one will buy it.
I, personally, would not mind seeing a regular “roadmap” update on the main site. (updated at least once every month or so)
A listing of things the team is currently working on, items completed and ready to ship in the next release, and things that the will definitely make it into the game eventually.
I see where you are coming from, but the game is fully funded. Due to this we really do not need to raise anymore funding, we need features. I would like to see features over updates about features.
Totally agree with you. Many of my friends are thinking that this game will be played by their grandchildren…
Totally agree with you. The main reason I bought B< and not another EA title a year ago was because I saw how active the devs interacted with their community (which they still do) and how frequently they posted/updated their progress (which they did a lot less in the past half year).
Another big reason for buying the game was that the devs shared concepts that were pretty early and unfinished but it was fun and interesting to discuss them, at least for us (the community). Maybe not always as interesting for the devs. (This awesome part of B< seems to be completely gone though)
I know that the devs are atm really busy with core things like the PS4 port that we as players don´t really notice but a rough heads-up on what is going on once in a while would be really interesting, even if it is just technical stuff alá optimizing etc.
(Just to make it clear: I´m not complaining about the amount of content released but the amount of information/concepts shown)
-1, there is much more to a game being successful than being “fully funded.”
Games like Minecraft, Kerbal, and Warframe would not be as successful as they are without all of their good PR and community interaction.
Look at what happened to SOE, in particular SWG. A large portion of their failure was egotistical game development and horrible PR and Community involvement. They had many CSR quit on them because of the bad choices SOE made and refused to involve the community. The game had a very active player community, it was the best sandbox game of it’s time, and one of the strongest IPs of all time. Yet they still managed to drive it 6 feet under and cover it in cement.
Since I also asked this kind of question once, I feel like wanting to participate in this request.
But first of all I wanted to mention, that dev’s are having a lot more communication with the community then every other game I played yet. I think menpower and available time are limitating factors. So I would not compare you with huge companies. For the amount of people you are, you are doing a great job.
But I think informing in shape of a roadmap, close goals, plans for realeasing new updates and it’s content are very valuable and motivating information. You should definetly put more time on that, because you have an active and interested community and they need feed. Also wondered about the minimum of updates at the homepage. I think that’s far more an information spreading plattform for you, then the forum.
People who are very interested in the game, it’s mechanics and about the chance of having influence on it’s developement will read and work out in the forum. But people who just think about the game, because it sounds interesting. And the ones who probably want to buy the finished version, they will definetly just look onto the homepage. And the homepage seems to be designed once (in a pretty nice way) but not developing on with content.
However, the surveys and other community interactive things should definetly also live on. They are a nice way, to work with a game, not ready yet. And since this game is all about creativity, people who already paid to be able to play, probably are one of best idea sources you can get. Using this source by surveys like you do is a very good thing! And do you see all this creativity inside them, identifying with your game? ALl this pictures painted, all this graphics created just to work together with you? Very creative unique community in my opinion!
Though I never now, when I will find something ingame, what I currently voted for… When I see the machines and engines, I’m like: “Wow, I want to try this out, looks so amazing!” But I feel like: “Calm down your enthusiasm, who knows when you see more of it” and all my happyness about it is nearly gone again or worse gets forgotten.
That’s enough of my simple thoughts. Everyone else in here said pretty useful things too. I think, dev’s, it’s time to turn the volume of boundless louder.
I’ve been meaning to share a dev update for a while - to let everyone know what is going on. I’ll hopefully get something out in the next couple of days.
If you have any dev-update specific questions add them to this thread and I’ll try to answer them.
(If you have any more general FAQ questions - add them to the other request for questions thread.)
True. PR is good, but without solid gameplay the game will not do well. What killed SWG for me was the combat “upgrade”, not the super bad PR.
I agree with @Hexblood at this point. there is much more then being “fully funded”. You said you like to see features but do you know:
i don’t think you can. at the moment, we se features if they are ready to ship regardless of whether we like the gameplay mechanism behin them or not. i don’t saw a “feature-list” set since B< has been fully funded… on the old page we hat a “planed features” list and we where at least able to talk about the features and name them … Now we do not even have that. Do we get:
Noone can say … and that’s a point where my bile is high.
That is exactly what my post is all about … if the PR has been better and if you’d (the community) be previously informed about the update you have had a chance to stop the update or tell the devs the idea is ■■■■!
one can only solve those problems which are known!
The dev promised us:
sad but true 
I wish the devs would return to their old behavior. A community - especially in such a project - can never get enough informations.
As said, KSP did exactly this. i don’t think that one or two pages of text a week (about “planed & done thinks”) will delay the work. If the @devs share the task like in this example (neglected the topics - only fillers) they won’t loose any productivity
This will be my election campaign motto. 
I totally agree with you @Vastar !
@james: thank you 
let me start with a lot of questions …
Last but not least …
I think we - the EA backers - are like Sony customers/shareholders of B< and you have an accountability to us!
Please excuse my directness
True words … I’m not mad or upset, but the last post is somehow a summary of my feelings.
Frankly, we EA backers are only tiny - unofficial shareholders by comparison. Look at the trove of concept art, developer feed-back and support you get from your tiny “share” invested in this game’s development. If you desire even greater transparency than what your contribution is getting you, then I suggest you put your wallet behind your demands and pickup the Oortian package. That monthly skype call is as I understand it, essentially a monthly share holder’s conference.
I personally am highly satisfied with the transparency and feedback I am getting as a backer, or “shareholder” as you put it.
Three months past and no new FAQ section … a lot of discussions (with really interesting content) based on outdated information or without @dev response … nothing more to say!
I wrote the rest as PM because it’s going off-topic in my opinion.
I’m with @Havok40k here! I am totally satisfied with what we have been getting. Especially over the holiday period (I didn’t expect anything!).
Just to point out, Release 115 (which introduced Beacons and Trading) was made available back in December 2015, which was last month.
lol that was last year
Okay … so now the offical way … i made an edit because i think you read a bit fast over it …
EDIT: Sorry for the confusion.
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