Need a summary of all this brainstorming...

[Thynett]

I see lots of ideas here, lots of good ones, but most of the time we find the same things in wish lists...


So it would be a great idea to sum up all these months of brainstorming. All ideas and proposals should be gathered, and in a few words it would be written :
- wether we will find this idea in a further version or not
- the reasons for this
- and wether it is useful to discuss it or not.

Of course it would need to be very well structured : gameplay, backgroung, settings, character look, rules and so on, to give a clear overview on the current situation.


Thus we wouldn\'t see so often the same wishes, and it would be a good base for further thinking.

[Thynett]

Quotation from Vengeance (Administrator) in the thread Too Greedy ?
\"Yes, keep the ideas coming. We, the devs, do read this board regularly. It is nicer when people read through the wish list forum before they post their own ideas, so they can build on others who came before them instead of simply having the same ideas over and over, like \"I think we need to have houses.\"\"


Reading the forum takes a lot of time (I know what I\'m saying, I keep reading it for hours to learn as much as I can)

Then why don\'t you, devs, administrators, or anyone that is much involved in the project, make a summary of all that has been said, and all that you intend to do ?
I do know this would need first a lot of time to gather all this info, but I am sure it is worth doing it... This way :
1/ we wouldn\'t see always the same ideas
2/ we would know on which basis we can keep thinking.


I\'m not the only one asking something like this, just see  there on thread Astonishing Wishlist System (IMHO ;-)
\"I think organizing data of the Wish List (...) would be far more clear and useful\"
\"I\'d like it better if there was a \"confirmed\" list. So that way, we\'d know for sure, whats in, and whats not\"




(btw I am not criticising your job like \"you devs are lazy boys so do better your job, work more, cuz I know everything !\", but I am suggesting something like \"here is an idea hich would take you lots of work to archieve on short term, but see all the benefits on long term, both for you devs and us forum readers \" )

[Vengeance]

Great idea, but the devs don\'t need to do it...

Volunteers?  :-)

[Snodgrass]

I think this is a great idea.  The beauty of it is that you have your first volunteer to summarize things.  This guy sounds motivated.  And the access that he has is okay to get the job done.  I absolutely agree that a game developer does not have time to catalogue ideas, however, I don\'t think it would take a developer to do this.  It is kind of like a free press.  It would be handy if the person doing the summary went ahead and stuck a hotlink in there to go to the thread which best describes the idea.  But if somebody feels strongly about this, with the access that we have right here Thynett can just go do it.  

It also might be handy if it works out to keep it on the top of the forum. so that somebody can peruse it before posting.

[Thynett]

Snodgras, I would have been pleased to do this, but I have a few problems :

1/ I don\'t know much of what has been done since it\'s only been a week since I discovered the game and theses forums.
2/ I don\'t know what has been \"officially\" decided whereas people more involved in the team (I mean devs admins and so on) do
3/ I\'m French, and I don\'t speak english well enough to understand all the nuances of all threads (although I understand the mainlines), and reading is much longer for me than for any english-speaking guy
4/ I\'m having exams until middle July.

So if no ones wants to do it on their own, maybe it can be done as team work, by dividing into several parts :
- gameplay
- appearance
- background
- character customisation
- armors and weapons
- other items
- skills
- social organisation
and so on...

I can do one of these cathegories (and I would need info from the devs to make sur what I would write down would be correct) but we still need volunteers for the other ones...


[EDIT]I just read this on the thread Too Greedy ? :
\"You guys shout put a list of finished and ongoing projects somewhere...probably the main site.\"
Looks like more and more want the same thing...

[Snodgrass]

Sounds like we have two volunteers to do this. One topic per person. So let me go over your points one at a time.  

1. Since it\'s only one topic per person all we have to do is skim them.  

2.  We don\'t have to worry about it being officially decided, we\'re just categorizing threads.  And then writing links to them.  

3.  Your english is better than some people who post here from Britian and the U.S. Mostly the US!  In fact, your spelling is not shabby either.

4.  You said you could only do one topic, that should be fine.  And there is not a time limit ether.

We should ask  Vengeance, since he asked for volunteers, what topics needs this kind of work the most.  It\'s important not to editorialize on the list, just report where the information is and dryly report it.  I also believe that there should be only one entry per subject which we edit.  When somebody wants to take on a new topic they pick one from Vengeances list and set up an entry to work on. On the top of the thread there shuld be a index of topics.

So Thynett do you want to do it? I am sure that Vengeance can come up with some topics that really irritate the development team off the top of his head.

How about an example.

Topic
PK or player killers.

Report
From the discussions on the various threads the only PK that may be available is guild wars and maybe an arena. The developers don\'t like the idea so it is unlikely to get beyond that.


PK option to make everyone happy.

PK Arena Alternative.

More on Pking.

PKing clan/guild system.

Pk System.

Why pking should be allowed

The difference between PKing and PvP Combat.

My idea about PKing

Umfrage: How should the PVP system work?

non RPG PK\\\'s.... What to do about them

Outcasts (another PK discussion) THIS MESSAGE IS TAKEN FROM OLD BOARD:

Pking....... THIS MESSAGE IS TAKEN FROM OLD BOARD:

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