Cheridan wrote:
You misinterpret me. I don't give a shit WHAT YOU IN PARTICULAR THINK. You are not Head Of Playerbus. You are not the community. You are a plague, a mewling saltbaby, a tryhard who pretends to be good at the game and writes 3-page essays whenever something ruins your sad facade by wrecking your shit in hopes of getting it nerfed.
Oh man, I'm tickled, you really don't understand how deeply you've deluded yourself. I don't use phrases like "community" unless I'm explicitly referring to an issue that has >50% support on the relevant forum thread, or I'm referring to Coderbus behavior toward these forums and the community they represent, not anyone/anything that *I* represent, since I have no goddamn illusions about my role here. You're trying really hard to build that strawman and it's not going to work.
Only iota of truth present in your comment is that I write a lot. It's fucking hilarious that you're going to fault someone for lengthy feedback when just a week ago you went on a similar rant in this very thread about how I wasn't doing enough to communicate my thoughts to coders just goes to show the extent of the deluded little narrative you've built up to justify why you're still right and everyone who criticizes you is wrong.
Cheridan wrote:What isn't a valid source of feedback is someone who's completely unappeasable, and will never be satisfied whatever you do. Which Shitpostin has absolutely proven himself.
Let's look through our comment histories and see which of us looks like they're trying to improve the game and which of us is a Platinum member of the Shitposter's Club.
It's hard to be unappeasable when you've done absolutely nothing to appease anyone here. The best evidence you can put forward is "Well when I was completely wrong about something and insulted everyone who disagreed with me, I didn't unilaterally close a PR that addressed the issue at a later point". When "not doing anything" is the best point of your defense, maybe that says something about what kind of job you're doing.
You want a role model, look at Ikkarus and his Gang War thread. He consistently interacted with this forum for feedback, was extremely responsive to concerns, and even where he disagreed with someone he would explain his reasoning and be respectful about it.
It really shouldn't be a surprise that Gang War went from "worse than meteor mode" to "contender for top game mode" in a matter of weeks. That sort of behavior is what you should aspire for, and to the extent you're just not willing to engage in that kind of dialogue with the community while still retaining absolute authority over "the direction of the game" - maybe you should let someone else take the reins.
Also Re: The Traitor TC shitshow. For a bus that chants "improve not remove" like a goddamn cult, you'd think they would see the merits in letting Steelpoint tweak TC costs in the 20->30 change rather than just completely shutting it down within a few hours. The thread I created spurring the change already referenced stuff like crates/kits and other big-ticket items as needing a proportional upgrade too, there was never any doubt that the PR was going to go through a few edits to account for that stuff. But you just completely shut it down and are trying to pretend now that nobody else saw what needed to be fixed.