Consistency of presentation for all games

Here is one example (amongst other, but a vivid one) of an idea that deserve to be in an idea section. Because it's good, well thought out, brillant even, and the kind soul how offer us all of this deserve (in my humble opinion) to be benefiting from the "gamification" aspect of the website, and have more point when it come down to votes.

https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/forums/169-game-design-and-ideas/threads/46261-a-new-adjacency-system-for-districts?page=1

They also deserve their weight in cookies (or candy of it's choosing), but I have to admit I have no idea how to fund that kind of reward.

By the way, this issue is more and more "upsetting" to me. I am not angry, but more and more frustrated that... well, everybody talk about systems, as they should, but not about the systems that would help them to streamline the idea picking process. It's ludicrous. See my rant at the end.

Each day, their is more and more ideas that could be filled and classified with the existing system. Players could be rewared with the systems that already exist. Without the devs having to do that much talk, players could fell they are been listened to, when an idea is made into "nice to have", must have, and so on.

In the post from one dev, he notes that :

DrunkenChoko wrote:
Some things that you note are already in our pipes !

How many come from the forums ? How many threads could have been in the idea section and tagged, in a way that is elegant, and logical, to say to the community : we are here, we here you, we read you. Humankind problem is, in my opinion, also a problem of community management.

See the following :

https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/forums/168-general/threads/45801-humankind-now-sits-on-69-positive-review-rating-indicating-mixed-reception-what-went-wrong?page=6#post-343107

https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/forums/168-general/threads/46193-i-am-skeptical-torn-about-humankind

I am not angry or anything, but I geniunly do not understand why the devs, that seem to have a great tool to handle the situation :

1. did NOT used it for their supposed Magnum opus, and at launch ?
   
2. Why they did not set it up, after launch when they were asking for... bug reports.= ? And feedback ?

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:
Hey @Aeram,

Sorry for not responding sooner. As you noted yourself in your "rant," we are quite busy. But let me try to answer why we are not currently using the ideas section:

1. While the ideas section in principle is a great tool, over the course of ES2's development we noticed several improvements that had to be made both to create a better user experience and create a smoother pipeline for managing the idea on our end. Our amazing web team has been hard at work on these improvements for a while, and we should soon be ready to open the ideas section for Humankind.

2. We have been largely focused on fixes and crucial improvements for Humankind so far, but we are starting to shift towards "additional features and content" considerations.

So, we plan to use the ideas section for Humankind in the future, and hopefully soon. But until then, we are relying on the Game Design forums, partly because we are still looking for balancing feedback that is more at home in a discussion thread than an idea comments section. We look forward to seeing all the new features, cultures, and other content people will suggest once the new ideas section goes live, though.

Good evening.

Nice to read. I am curious to see to what the new idea will look like. I am sorry for the frustration and apologise, but I prefer to be honnest, earnest. Important to be Ernest.

I would have prefered to see all of this explained before hand. Anyway. Keep all a good heart. :)

Bon courage. Je n'envie vraiment pas la situation dans laquelle vous êtes. J'espère que les choses tourneront pour le mieux.