Transparency (split from "Tulimshar remake and npc dialog")

[Jumpy]

no offense anyone please

but sometimes i just don't understand why some questions or participations are asked if everything is already thought and worked in private forums

dont make us lose time and interest in what is being done

thanks

again feel no offense

Sincerely and with a sincer and sympathic

[yubabax116]

no offense anyone please

but sometimes i just don't understand why some questions or participations are asked if everything is already thought and worked in private forums

dont make us lose time and interest in what is being done

thanks

again feel no offense

Sincerely and with a sincer and sympathic

I personally like to know whats going on if they talked on private forums then us as a community wouldnt know what would be going on at all.

Yubaba

[Crush]

Splitted from http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... 13&t=12648 to avoid an off topic discussion.

[Jumpy]

Crush, yubaba and everyone

thanks for creating and splitting

let me clear my point

i'd just like that posts are clearer as they used to be when several serious devs were working on a project

1. presentation
2. link to the relevant posts in which information of where the project stand at that time and infos on where the project tends to be implemented
links such as http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/User:John_Pyle ...
3. express clearly the needs in terms of deelopment, graphic, story guideline, help needed and so on

this would help a lot the complete comunity to share fastely and with more efficiency

as i said no offense
just trying to make things advance in a better way

Sincerely

and of course i like to know what's going on

i just don't like to waste time thinking about ideas or doing things for nothing and redoing

[Jumpy]

Hello

Thanks to Bertram for this

http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... =1&t=12669

and in advance thanks to all devs (whatever their speciality are) who will participate in that post that goes in myfav !

this is good!

Sincerely and for the best

[Bertram]

Hi,

You also inspired that thread's idea, so thank to you, too.

Ah, and remember, translation progress can be part of development news!

Best regards.

[Crush]

Regarding the private forum issue: We experimented with different grades of transparency in the past. I used to do everything as openly as possible. It worked for me because i was able to differentiate between the opinions of people I should care about and the opinions of people who don't matter.

But a lot of newbie artists despair of trying to listen to everyone, including people who have no idea what they are talking about and whose opinions are completely irrelevant. That's why we created an art development forum which was read-only for non-developers to keep the signal to noise ratio down.

Currently we have a completely private forum to be able to speak openly without risking any spoilers or rumors. The school of thought behind this is that the game experience for the players is best when new content surprises them because and they didn't follow it's development.

All these approaches have advantages and disadvantages, but in the end the only thing that counts is how the team which creates a certain content project can work most efficiently.