It's really disheartening when you hear that a thread needs to have support to be forwarded to a GM. If a suggestion is good on its own merits, it should be forwarded just for that.
Why? Because it's hard to get support on anything these days! It really seems like most players either don't come to the forum or come only to read patch notes and make complaint threads - without looking around to see if other threads exist suggesting ways to fix up the problem they're complaining about!
Example 1: Gmuts. People cried about the very recent gmut changes. They wrote about it for pages and pages on end in the gmut and patch notes threads.
Yet, this suggestion for gmuts (and ews) only has 3 pages...Even though it's a good suggestion
And someone tried to bring back up an old suggestion, created at a previous time when people were complaining about gmuts too, I believe, regarding being able to exchange items for points that could then be redeemed for better items. The numbers might need some working out, but it's a good suggestion and the person had the right timing to bring it back up. But did it get much support? Nope.
Example 2: Divine wings
When they were announced, people were very upset that cashers could get stronger while noncashers were still stuck where they were without any kind of hope. They complained and complained and I remember Memorylane suggested we make a suggestion thread, instead of a complaint thread. Did those complaining people make one? Nope. Instead, I made a thread about ways to incorporate more EWs in the game, and I even mentioned the thread I created in one of the active complaining threads. Did it get any support? Nope.
Example 3: Vault Space
People keep asking for page 3 of vault, they complain about it all the time still. Now we already know that's not gonna happen until the chinese version gets it (and even then we'll have to wait as our version of the game is further behind). Yet, someone made a suggestion about being able to exchange stacks for new stackable items. So 100 ESO would become 1 ESOP. 250 bronze badges would become 1 bronze badge pack and those packs would be stackable to 250. That means one slot in the vault could take up to 250*250=62,500 bronze badges! Talk about a space saver.
People suck. So many of them complain and complain without bothering to look at the suggestions section and supporting ways to fix the problem, so let's drop this idea that a thread needs support. I've even tried telling my own server to go support threads, either during or after a complaint spree in world chat. You'd think that'd get their attention and get them to post, but they just don't bother - even if they agree after explaining what the suggestion is! If a thread has a good suggestion, it should be forwarded to a GM just for being a good suggestion.
Why? Because it's hard to get support on anything these days! It really seems like most players either don't come to the forum or come only to read patch notes and make complaint threads - without looking around to see if other threads exist suggesting ways to fix up the problem they're complaining about!
Example 1: Gmuts. People cried about the very recent gmut changes. They wrote about it for pages and pages on end in the gmut and patch notes threads.
Yet, this suggestion for gmuts (and ews) only has 3 pages...Even though it's a good suggestion
And someone tried to bring back up an old suggestion, created at a previous time when people were complaining about gmuts too, I believe, regarding being able to exchange items for points that could then be redeemed for better items. The numbers might need some working out, but it's a good suggestion and the person had the right timing to bring it back up. But did it get much support? Nope.
Example 2: Divine wings
When they were announced, people were very upset that cashers could get stronger while noncashers were still stuck where they were without any kind of hope. They complained and complained and I remember Memorylane suggested we make a suggestion thread, instead of a complaint thread. Did those complaining people make one? Nope. Instead, I made a thread about ways to incorporate more EWs in the game, and I even mentioned the thread I created in one of the active complaining threads. Did it get any support? Nope.
Example 3: Vault Space
People keep asking for page 3 of vault, they complain about it all the time still. Now we already know that's not gonna happen until the chinese version gets it (and even then we'll have to wait as our version of the game is further behind). Yet, someone made a suggestion about being able to exchange stacks for new stackable items. So 100 ESO would become 1 ESOP. 250 bronze badges would become 1 bronze badge pack and those packs would be stackable to 250. That means one slot in the vault could take up to 250*250=62,500 bronze badges! Talk about a space saver.
People suck. So many of them complain and complain without bothering to look at the suggestions section and supporting ways to fix the problem, so let's drop this idea that a thread needs support. I've even tried telling my own server to go support threads, either during or after a complaint spree in world chat. You'd think that'd get their attention and get them to post, but they just don't bother - even if they agree after explaining what the suggestion is! If a thread has a good suggestion, it should be forwarded to a GM just for being a good suggestion.
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