thanks all for your comments.
Richard you wrote:
"To begin with Aaron is kindof a private guy so that has something to do with it"
Sorry maybe my english is not that good, but what do you mean with "private"? Do you mean that he dont like to post in the public?
"Second he is quite busy"
Believe me, I am very busy in my job too, but I take 5-10 min. per day to look at this forum.
Again I want to point out that I think that the shrapnel forums are excellent in their responsiveness and quality. But IMO this is not due to MM. Its the result of the quality of the members of the forum. (and thankfully of course because shrapnel - or you - provide this platform for us)
Some guys here say that there are some very important questions which would IMO deserve at least a short comment of the inventor of the game. I agree.
questions which comes into my mind:
-Add-On: a lot of people would like to pay for an Add-on (with some new features) etc.
-Scenario editor? Does MM plan to bring out a scenario editor (to enable shorter scenarios which can be played by TCP/IP)
Whats the opinion of MM about these topics? I am sure if we look a little bit closer there are several other important questions about SE4 which deserve the attention of Aaron.
Richard, my Posts should not be an attack at you or Aaron. IMO its not your job to post at the forum more than you do and I see that you are reading the forum every day. This is good.
But I cannot understand the total absence of MM in this forum. There could be several reasons why:
1. Aaron is not absent. He reads it, but dont post something. (maybe because he dont like to post in the internet at all)
2. Aaron is absent. He dont read it and dont post it, because he works intensivly 16 hours per day without having time to read, eat, sleep etc. (in this case he should consider to change his day time job,
)
3. Aaron is absent. He dont read the forum and its not very important for him what the people in this forum post, maybe because he has enough feedback with his betatesters or personal emails.
Maybe the reason why we hear nothing from MM at this board is a mixture of all three points.
My rant is about the MM support of this forum. In other ways (beta tester, email) MM have a good support. I dont negate this and I find it good.
I dont want Aaron that he responds to everything, (working on patches and new features is more important) but it would be fine if he could post one or two statements per week about hot questions and ideas in our forum.
Is this too much?
thanks for listening
klaus