#Ingame community poll

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charred willow
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Giving ideas and suggestions on discord is really great in general and for the evolution of the game. However, a lot of the suggestions are made/read by people which are way more involved in the game than the average player, just by the fact they are doing the effort to post/read something on the discord of the game they play.

This is a very good thing, but it raises the problem of suggestions that can be added to the game without really considering what the silent mass of player that play the game (in general) think.

My suggestion is the following :

Since a new lobby interface is in development, let use this opportunity to add a community poll system which allow the devs to submit a suggestion during one week or two in game (in the menu for instance) to get the opinion of the active community as a whole about a suggestion.

IMO : Proposed suggestion should be chosen at the devs discretion, a useful tool.

(and maybe a player should have at least smth like 2 chevron to vote, to avoid spam and really uneducated vote. But it should not be locked behind the first silver chevron, we want the whole communities, the whole point is to have the majority of the players, from the one that play one time per week with his friends against AI to the one that is playing everyday and enjoy tournaments)

(This suggestion also allows involved player to be rewarded for their... well involvement... in the game development and community (since they are the source of suggestions) while ensuring that the changes are at least somewhat popular in the whole player base and not only in a reduced circle of involved player (which is once again, not a bad thing, at all but IMO, might be bad for the future of the game).

slate gust
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This isn't a good idea for balance simply because lower skilled people aren't aware of how some stuff works or how to counter it.

Take for example Janus - basically every low OS player (sub 25os) will say it's overpowered and kills everything, while any higher os player will tell you it's fine as it is because they know how to play against it.

The fact higher OS players are the more active ones on the discord also isn't an accident. It means they have a passion for the game and understand it quite well.

charred willow
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IMO : Proposed suggestion should be chosen at the devs discretion

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because balance like those example is harder indeed, but for instance, the new coop change proposed, is a more large change than adjusting the janus (and to be clear it is in general, it just happens that this is the current trend (lol). It's for changes like those one, those radical changes in the game that i think everyone can give their opinion)

slate gust
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I don't want to sound elitist here, but it is what it is - but lower os people can vote even now, they just need to be more involved in the community. Unless they aren't it doesn't make much sense for me for the inexperienced casuals to affect balance, and they will - after all 30os+ is already like top 5% of the playerbase? maybe even less

charred willow