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Fuzzball_7 wrote:

After reading this post I'm wondering a few things: If we still want to make suggestions for little new things in ES2 (e.g. small gameplay features, UI improvements) where should we post these? In the Game Design forum? How does one decide when an idea is "big" enough to go in the Ideas section?

Or are you saying the Ideas section is no longer going to be running at all? Does that mean ES2 is no longer receiving improvement suggestions from the players?

ES2 is at the end of its lifetime, the next DLC (altough depending on how well it sells) will likely be the last one so it makes sense to disable the ideas section. The last train has passed and the station closes.

I just find odd that something as small as changing the aesthethics of a planet is considered out of scope specially when it was labeled as possible, abandoned 2 years and then dropped.

Ťhat is good new.

Thrak wrote:

Whether you post on the forums or in the ideas section has no impact on the scope of the ideas you submit, the scope of ideas we can implement, and which ideas synergize with the overall vision for the game, so it has no bearing on which suggestions we implement.

So from this comment, it appears to me that since ideas that were previously flagged as Must Have ('Nearly there...') were parked and subsequently binned while the team was busy cutting and pasting new factions to sell DLC, doesn't really matter what we do as a community, is that correct?

I mean let's face it, the ideas section was essentially the equivalent of a 'feedback box' at an abandoned gas station.

In summary, can we take it that the true sentiment from the original post is 'we were thrilled by your enthusiastic response - please keep shouting into the abyss while we pump out the DLC we had planned anyway'

Indeed, i understand that there are probably several ideas that are extremely far away from the games original vision and implementing them would require to make a whole new game or something similar, but there were several simple ideas that could ve been added, took alot of effort and were praised by a good part of the community, whats even worse is the fact that some ideas were apparently accepted by the devs only to be abandoned for years to end up as "out of vision" years later, i feel people should care alot more about this.

Thank you, Amplitude, for the constant development and improvement of the already great game.

After reading this post I'm wondering a few things: If we still want to make suggestions for little new things in ES2 (e.g. small gameplay features, UI improvements) where should we post these? In the Game Design forum? How does one decide when an idea is "big" enough to go in the Ideas section?

Or are you saying the Ideas section is no longer going to be running at all? Does that mean ES2 is no longer receiving improvement suggestions from the players?

PARAdoxiBLE wrote:

Can't wait to see a new expansion and a balance patch for ES2 :D

THIS!

Vous n'avez pas choisi une seule des idées que j'avais repérées, comme quoi on à vraiment pas la même vision de votre jeu. :-)
Bon c'est peut etre aussi que je n'ai pas jeter un oeil a toutes les idées, il y en avait trop et pas une seule en francais.
De toute facon NGD n'a jamais terminé Master of Orion, et Endless Legend est bien trop éthéré pour que l'on puissereconnaitre leur patte.

Translation by American Artificial Intelligence (Google):

You did not pick one of the ideas that I had seen, that we really do not have the same vision of your game. :-)

Well it may be that I did not take a look at all the ideas, there were too many and not one in French.

Anyway NGD never really finished Master of Orion, and Endless Legend is too ethereal for us to recognize their footprint.

behemots are bad for the game in the current form. 

hacking is boring and annoying.

food is mostly useless.

energy weapons are the best.

diplomacy is broken.

the Ai is dumb.

the list goes on

there are topics on each problem. these are big problems and need a fix

and in the new dlc i saw you want to give all factions a new trait like hacking or behemots were....both were bad and made all faction play the same more and more. don't go in that direction you are not stellaris and custom factions are broken and not balanced in this game.

When the new expansion will arrive ? 

aerothgow wrote:

behemots are bad for the game in the current form. 

hacking is boring and annoying.

food is mostly useless.

energy weapons are the best.

diplomacy is broken.

the Ai is dumb.

the list goes on

there are topics on each problem. these are big problems and need a fix

and in the new dlc i saw you want to give all factions a new trait like hacking or behemots were....both were bad and made all faction play the same more and more. don't go in that direction you are not stellaris and custom factions are broken and not balanced in this game.

it is go to far. l thought the dev team was make a effort to make the game great.

Oh I never caught up that this post also means you killed the ideas submission, and I just wanted to propose bug report tools. =D

Vody wrote:

Thank you Amplitude for the effort you put into the game and thanks a lot for considering to implement new ideas. But if I may, would my idea not be suitable for the game?  I think being able to filter out buildings depending on what they would do would not hurt.

Will the ideas menu reopen in the future? Because I would like to post my ideas about this game.

Great news! Thank you! Can't wait for the patch!

I really look forward to a new expansion. I really hope that it turns out to be very good. However, if possible, can you consider one of my ideas?

Balance patch before DLC? That's strange. Balance is allowed to be changed, but long time promissed tech tree lore pass apparently not.

but... will there be blackjack and hookers?

Thank you Amplitude for the effort you put into the game and thanks a lot for considering to implement new ideas. But if I may, would my idea not be suitable for the game?  I think being able to filter out buildings depending on what they would do would not hurt.

Thank you too. A real pleasure to participate with this community for the game and see ideas come a fruition. Look forward to playing DLC.

Thank you for breaking the silence. Glad you found the Ideas section to be helpful. Can't wait for the upcoming patch and expansion!

This game has become something that I have happily poured numerous hours into and this community is one that I am happy to be a part of. I hope that the developers will continue to listen to the voices of the users and strive to keep making the game an even more enjoyable place to spend even more of my time. (P.s. Still would like to see AI alternative fleet skins become a part of this game).

I spent in ES2 more time than in any other game from my library. Wish you luck, Ampliteam

I find sad that most of the ideas were just rejected and some that were accepted before and abandoned for years were answered just to be rejected  too :/

solrac137 wrote:

I find sad that most of the ideas were just rejected and some that were accepted before and abandoned for years were answered just to be rejected  too :/

Moral of the story: don't use idea section for future games, just create forum threads instead.

Thanks.

Sublustris wrote:

solrac137 wrote:

I find sad that most of the ideas were just rejected and some that were accepted before and abandoned for years were answered just to be rejected  too :/

Moral of the story: don't use idea section for future games, just create forum threads instead.

What do you mean ?

Sublustris wrote:

Balance patch before DLC? That's strange. Balance is allowed to be changed, but long time promissed tech tree lore pass apparently not.

As I have said before, we deliberately postponed the lore rework when we started to work on the next DLC and the balance patch so that the game designers would have complete freedom to shuffle things around.

Sublustris wrote:

solrac137 wrote:

I find sad that most of the ideas were just rejected and some that were accepted before and abandoned for years were answered just to be rejected  too :/

Moral of the story: don't use idea section for future games, just create forum threads instead.

Whether you post on the forums or in the ideas section has no impact on the scope of the ideas you submit, the scope of ideas we can implement, and which ideas synergize with the overall vision for the game, so it has no bearing on which suggestions we implement.

Vacmidvalley wrote:

If the patch makes the AI aggressive instead of passive and doesn't let them send a few ships at a time to get slaughter, it will be a good patch. If not, well... 

I am afraid I have to disappoint you there: This is a balance patch, not an AI patch, so no sweeping changes have been made to the AI.