Collecting the positive: updates, plans, community related

It's under planned.

Beside Community related stuff almost everything positive is under "planned"... (= promises)



I agree, I added a note to Opt-In Builds and moved the timer reduction to planned.

By planned I mean that someone of 22cans said they intend to implement said feature and there hasn't be a post revoking that so far.

So its 1), 2) and A1) and A2). Anything that was rather vague (we will think about it... that might be part of the PC sprints... ) is under "considered".

For example George said that the ability to skip the tutorial might be something they will consider for the PC sprints. Its not a clear statement (we will implement that with the PC sprints) but it's a possibility.

Of course its possible that things on that list will not be implemented because of their "iterative design process" or "statistic" and there is no clear statement when that might be.

We got already prepared for the possiblity of delaying the PC sprints and its been said a few times that 22cans will just start thinking (making a concept) about making godus more like a PC game when the PC sprints start, they will not immediately start implementing features to achieve that.

Once I find some time I will add source to all points so things should be more clear.

The way I see it, you generally should have two kinds of communities/forums.
Ones such as here, where likeminded people do their thing.
And a single 'official' forum/community which is primarily used by the developer to organize and dispense information.

Now thats not to say its a bad thing to have CM's such as yourself wander around these various other communities.
Its just that both before your arrival and even occasionally after you (and later George) started working on the whole interaction part, it sometimes was a bit vague as to what information was speculation, what was official and what was "perhaps, perhaps not".

A simple example would be something like the tutorial bit. I think I've heard/read atleast a dozen conflicting reports on this over the course of several months. Now I don't know if having a single unified "source" would've helped with that, but I imagine it would. And it'd make for a solid source of information that is better to manage.

Though in that regard I'd also mostly be comparing it to a frame of reference based on various other studios using that approach.
I mean, titles like Minecraft, Prison Architect, Star Citizen, Stonehearth and Starbound etc all have their "official" boards, aswell as tons of fanmade communities. To me, having a centralized source or core just makes a lot more sense.
As such the decision by 22cans to keep the boards completely locked off just feels strange.
It makes me think that whoever was in charge of making these decisions didn't really understand what (s)he was doing, and thus decided that because the kickstarter promised a backerforum, it'd have to be a backer exclusive forum (instead of a generic forum with an exclusive section).

Ofcourse there have been more things in the past that resulted in that impression for me.
As such I'm very glad that atleast in that regard things have VASTLY improved.
Communication and interaction being a bit more organized and streamlined, information provided more reliably (if not always more accurately) and other improvements (however simple they might be at times that one wonders why it ever was done differently).

And based on those observations I can only conclude that having you guys on board resulted to be quite beneficial to the cans in general.
Makes me wonder though, whatever happened to that "official" FAQ and potential future AMA's.

Indeed. Don't you get any ideas about taking your pants off!

So you're the one stinking up the place!

As long as the shirts and shoes stay on, I'm good.

Dynamic.

You have my attenton. Does it affect or effect any aspect of gameplay (outside adding "interesting environmental manipulation")?

The 'dynamic' potential has many interesting connotations, though I assume the reality will be much more subtle and tame. I like to imagine it'll provide for aditional features or variables; positive mechanics like irrigation bonuses to farming, fishing for settlement bonus, recreation for happiness, and adversely provide for negative ones like floods, tidal waves, poisoned/polluted waters, etc.

Again, big wishes tend to overblow the aspirations and create unrealistic expectations, thus the community ultimately gets disappointed; so I'll just withhold my desires and excitement until I see how it operates.