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... and if they have a contractual deadline, you can be sure that Dom3 will suffer because of it.

What intrigues me is how little J & K respond to all the bazillion comments and suggestions about Dom3. I know there's only two of them and all that, and I'm not suggesting that they should waste precious time answering repetitive questions about Dom3's progress, but it surprises me that they don't want to ask us more questions.

I was a regular on the MoO3 development fora, and the guy there (Alan someone, I forget his name) was really pretty active in soliciting views and clarifying people's suggestions and so on. Ok so MoO3 was a disaster but I suspect that was in spite of the user input rather than because of it. Brad Wardell (author of GalCiv) uses c.s.i.p.g.s to the same effect.

There are hundreds of suggestions in the Wishlist thread, and although some of them are barking, some of them are excellent. Some, I would have thought, would benefit from further discussion and clarification, before the devs decided whether to implement them or not - but if they don't comment, we don't know if that's the case.

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