Player Input to Development
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:20 pm
We get a lot of criticism that Dev spend a long time working on a subject and then throw it out as a finished article without giving players a chance to add their own ideas. So as part of the ongoing improvements intended to make players feel more involved, this is what will happen in the future.
As a rule, Dev considers one major topic at a time and works it through until it is finished. So we're going to tell you what the next topic will be ahead of time. That gives everyone the opportunity to throw in ideas and chat about them before the development process starts. Your ideas will be taken into consideration when dev gets underway and they will influence the final output. Obviously we won't be able to take every idea from every player on board, because not all of them will fit. But you often know a subject better than we do, so your input will help shape that phase of development and should result in a better finished product.
The major topic Dev is working through is races - their description, mindset, classes and AC's, advantages and disadvantages, history, tribes, pantheon, etc. The object is to balance all races and to make sure each race has an adequate amount of background to give a player a clear idea of how they are perceived in Belariath, as well as a firm grounding for their own roleplay. To do this, Dev is working on one race at a time.
The next project for development, due to start in a couple of weeks, is Elves - all three branches. So as a player in TLI, if you want to get involved, throw out your ideas, criticisms and suggestions relating to Elves in this thread. Dev isn't going to get heavily involved in this discussion - it's a time for you, the players, to discuss the race amongst yourselves. But once we do start the development work on this subject, we'll be taking the contents of this thread very seriously and adding it into the mix.
As a rule, Dev considers one major topic at a time and works it through until it is finished. So we're going to tell you what the next topic will be ahead of time. That gives everyone the opportunity to throw in ideas and chat about them before the development process starts. Your ideas will be taken into consideration when dev gets underway and they will influence the final output. Obviously we won't be able to take every idea from every player on board, because not all of them will fit. But you often know a subject better than we do, so your input will help shape that phase of development and should result in a better finished product.
The major topic Dev is working through is races - their description, mindset, classes and AC's, advantages and disadvantages, history, tribes, pantheon, etc. The object is to balance all races and to make sure each race has an adequate amount of background to give a player a clear idea of how they are perceived in Belariath, as well as a firm grounding for their own roleplay. To do this, Dev is working on one race at a time.
The next project for development, due to start in a couple of weeks, is Elves - all three branches. So as a player in TLI, if you want to get involved, throw out your ideas, criticisms and suggestions relating to Elves in this thread. Dev isn't going to get heavily involved in this discussion - it's a time for you, the players, to discuss the race amongst yourselves. But once we do start the development work on this subject, we'll be taking the contents of this thread very seriously and adding it into the mix.