[SOLVED] Outcry to developers for better feedback tool

I seem to recall there was a wiki - although it was not very up to date last I saw it linked.

Hmm there seem to be more than one, I'm not sure if there is an official wiki.

http://planetaryannihilation.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://planetary.makegames.de/Main_Page

If a wiki were to be produced it would have to be carefully phrased, much of the content here is purely discussion and far from confirmed. New comers may take discussion points as gospel on a wiki which would could be counterproductive. Perhaps there could be two sections detailing confirmed aspects and discussion points?

I could be interested in a wiki, but I do wonder if it would cause fragmentation of discussion. Currently people going through the forums absorb varied points of view and nuances prior to contributing in an active conversation, where as people linking a wiki page saying "It's been discussed" would seriously reduce any fresh interpretation of the material.

I will admit however that it could be helpful for pointing out confirmed features - or aspects of discussion which had been confirmed as not making it into the game.

Re: Outcry to developers for better feedback submitting tool

Ah! Nii236 beat me to it. Knew I had seen it somewhere - I didn't think to look at the sticky thread. I'm a genius.

I wholeheartedly agree with you there. An example of appropriate levels of self regulation in proportion to the validity of the idea maybe? :lol:

I did not want to start a new topic so I posted in this one.

Having to read all the threads to find out if Neutrino posted something interesting takes a lot of time.

Therefore I would like to suggest a forum feature that shows if somebody from uberent has posted in a thread and an added shortcut to get to those posts quickly.

A search of posts from user "neutrino" on the PA subsection may help you.

A search of posts from user "neutrino" on the PA subsection displayed as threads does exactly the requested feature.

Thank you, that indeed is a good idea.
Though Id love to see some feature that shows it easily.
Also from other Uberent posters.

I think a search function is about as simple as it gets, it serves the purposes of finding posts by whatever user you want to search for, uberent or otherwise. You could search for my posts if you felt so inclined.

As an aside I think it is important to see some of the threads that the community have put together. There are some great ideas that you may miss if you are only cherry picking posts made my particular users. Neutrino posts great stuff and so do the other staff, and they are committed to reading as much of these forums as possible but they aren't spending all their time commenting on every single thread.