Frogsquadron wrote:

I've attempted to read this idea several times now, but there's just no way I can justify "reading exactly one piece of text of over 8000 words" without it actively hindering other community-related tasks that are more time-sensitive.

Even your TL;DR section is a daunting 2200 words, and while this idea seems obviously both ambitious and popular, keep in mind that we're in a literal race against time to get all the stuff we need to do done in a day.

TL;DR, and I say this without the hint of a smile: please give me an elevator pitch that doesn't require me to be stuck in an elevator with you.

https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/ideas/1632-a-new-multiplayer-system?page=2

Hi community. I am the creator of a idea in G2G called A New Multiplayer System. This idea came up to me as a solution for many ... Problems, i had in my experience whit the game. 

Many of these Problems i experienced where starting to make the game to feel more... Lacking. its weird when you fight against the AI and notice that he is not a real chellenge, and once you play against other players... they simply leave and let you fight the AI instead of other players... and when you start to play multiplayer games where everyone can leave at any time, where you can't finsih your matches because "Oh you have to play everything at once because it is to difficult to find all the people and start this match again whit all of them reunited" or something like that, constantily playing multiplayer matches in fast pace because "everyone needs to finish it fast" because some people dont have time to play the whole game... 

All that stuff i experienced, maked me seriously worried. I want to experience the game better than worrying about all that stuff listed above, and more. i just wanted to click some sort of button and let everything be done by itself. I click the button, the match organises... i find people to play whit, people won't leave once they start they game because "oh i don't have availble time for this" making the game even more boring for me. 

I wanted to play a match competitively where things would be difficult, where i could create strategical relations whit other empires , and ensure my way to victory was filled whit betrayal, plans in order to ensure my victory... trusting my friends and forging alliances... Where true pros fight true pros, where beginners fight beginners, and where people like me who just want to play strategically and enjoy most of the game has to offer, play whit other people who want to play competitvely, based on their "handsome" knowledge of the game...

I thought a way where things could be better :)

But then i found out a problem: As frogsquadron said, my idea is very, very, VERY long. And i believe frogsquadron and most other devs, do not have enough time to read everything in my idea... because they have very important stuff to do and reading my idea... consumes too much time they could spend elswhere, in improving the game even further. 

Then he asked me to create a shorter version of it, but... my idea is so big that i don't know where to start whit. 

Most importantily, im not very good whit organizing things... and i need some sort of help, like... a formmating method, where my idea is explained Clearly  in simple, small steps the devs can read. Im not sure where all my theory goes in those "small steps" because the theory i designed, is the main point that make my idea big as it is. Then i start to wonder if it is possible to place all my theory in those small steps and make it small enough for devs to read... I tried my best to make the information i was trying to explain as objective as i could... But it seems like its not enough for the devs. Is there a way to make my idea even more objective and explained in small points or we will have to destroy most theory in order for it to be small? i can`t say. 

And that is because im asking the help of the community to *READ* my idea whole... and help me organizing all that information in short, achievable steps the devs can read. 

Can you help me? :)