Some thoughts on improvements to the game

[lch]

Originally Posted by Sombre

I agree they /can/ theoretically be useful, but the noise rate appears to be somewhere around 99.99%.

I have to back up Sombre on that one. I have TONS of very awesome ideas. Ideas that I very much wish somebody else would implement for me, or even just help me to work on. And sometimes I do fail to restrain myself from propagating them, though I know that to walk the walk is a lot more difficult than to talk the talk. I haven't seen anybody seriously saying "Hey, I want to do something awesome, but I don't know what, give me something to work on" and then following through with it here - so as far as market economies are concerned, there is a lot more supply than demand for ideas to work on here. I'm very glad that there are a couple of altruistic people here that find the energy to make sure that not everything stays at the "idea" level.

Regarding suggestions to the devs, I wouldn't condemn them, the devs should see those suggestions as a form of flattery. People do care about their game, even when they criticize it. But those people should be very, very aware that their suggestions, however good and meaningful they might be, will have minimal chance of getting implemented, for various good reasons.