Ikarrus wrote:Yeah, as much as you posture cjs you don't ever try to make your point on github, or even Coderbus IRC
I mean you have some good ideas and feedback, but you should be making them where it'd be the most visible and have the largest impact.
My experience posting there have been even more negative than posting in Feedback in terms of acknowledging/recognizing problems.
The people who often add these shittiest of shit changes are also those most inclined to ignore people like me, or most of the playerbase for that matter.
I mean seriously, go look at StonedOne shitposting in my Blob thread below this one. If I complain about something being absurdly strong = "Oldmans just mad he can't powergame to beat it". If I complain about something being too weak = "Oldmans just mad he can't use it to powergame".
Whether its the site admin, headcoder, or whoever, most people suck at responding to the substance of any feedback. I'm pretty sure Cheridan fought against every active Feedback poster in justifying removing their implants and locking their hardsuits. Plus, as I stated before, navigating github to actually identify PR's that are going to significantly alter game balance is really awful. There are 70 goddamn pull requests right now and most of them are "added bed for Ian, added pixel to scanner", but so many of them have horrendous titles that I can't easily identify what constitutes a truly important change.
Then on top of that, the fucking posts are often illegible. Either because they refer to code in lieu of explaining what the fuck is being changed or the poster is just shit as elucidating what they're change does.
Let's look a this PR from the legendary coder Goofball:
"Krav Maga is a fighting style good for 1 on 1 combat. It's obtainable from the traitor uplink in the form of gloves for 10tc. It's got 3 combos, a Leg Sweep, a Quick Choke, and a Head Elbow."
The post goes on to add details, but at no fucking point actually explains what the fuck a leg sweep, quick choke, or head elbow actually fucking do. For all I know leg sweep throws you into the singularity, quick choke insta-crits you, and head elbow gibs you. Jesus fucking christ how am I supposed to give feedback on this garbage.
The economics of the relationships between coders and players makes much more sense for CODERS to curate their most important goddamn changes and pass them along to feedback before merging, with polls carrying some weight beyond "I need to know what % of the playerbase to tune out".