We need a better method of MA feedback
By
Forbin_Project,
Posted on: 2009-04-09 10:54 in Suggestions and Ideas
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Global tells are nice for receiving MA feedback, but they have a character limit, and you only get them once and can't review them later. An MA-specific email box with a much higher character limit would be great, since that way it's fine if you type in feedback as you go along with custom arcs. This method also makes it easier to report spelling or grammatical errors to designers, since currently it's really hard to squeeze those into the character limit along with more important feedback.
I am, however, a fan of the way the current feedback system lets you open a dialog with the people giving you feedback, so I think a button you could press on your feedback inbox to start a global chat with your feedbackers would be helpful.
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/signed
I gave an arc author some feedback, which prompted a discussion about how to make his custom enemies look more impressive. The bland looking custom critters, when I knew there were much more appropriate costume options available, was one of two things that kept me from five starring the arc. The other was that he needed more background text for those not familiar with the source material. I am quite familiar with the Ring Cycle and Germanic mythology, so I was able to fill in the holes. This was actually the larger issue, and I would have five starred if not for this, as taste in costuming is subjective.
There have been times that I wanted to give more detail than I have in my feedback, and it would be great to not have that text limit come up so quickly.
Hmmm. Thinking about it, I tend to rate right after I give feedback. In the cases where there is just one thing that is preventing me from 5 starring an arc, I wonder if I should hold off on the rating until the author has had a chance to respond. Not that I expect every author to change their arcs to suit my whims, but if they do fix it so that I see it as "Great," as opposed to "Really Good," then I would like to rate it appropriately.
New story arcs coming soon (ARC IDs will be aded when I finish the arc):
So, you want to join the Hellions? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
Sparks & Steel (level 5-20 Heroic arc)
and
So you want to join the Skulls? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
I personally think the release of the Mission Architect is the perfect time to work on and release a form of "Global Email". An Email system based on Global Names, and would be used by the MArc system for feedback, and even allow a dialog by showing the feedback provider's global Email. Being more permanent then Global Tells to players off line is a huge bonus, and something I would love for the MArc system.
If it's separate from regular email, sure. Character specific has its place.
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I personally think the release of the Mission Architect is the perfect time to work on and release a form of "Global Email". An Email system based on Global Names, and would be used by the MArc system for feedback, and even allow a dialog by showing the feedback provider's global Email. Being more permanent then Global Tells to players off line is a huge bonus, and something I would love for the MArc system.
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/shoots this idea in the foot
I get enough spam from RMT sites. While I would appreciate being able to get something like this, I ran out of global ignores about 4 months ago.
How about the person has to go to one of the kiosk where you edit your mission and what not and everyone that made a comment their comment gets left their. So people could just go once a day and see if anyone rated/commented on their story.
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If it's separate from regular email, sure. Character specific has its place.
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Oh I agree, and I like where Lucky666 was going with it, something attached to the MArc Kiosks, so you can view, reply, and send them only from those terminals.
I don't care what method they finally decide on, but I won't be getting many critique tells because I actively remove private messages from my chatboxes on many of my characters to avoid annoying tells.
If they make a new ingame mail system the file it stores messages in should dump to our forum accounts so we can read them "offline".
Global tells are nice for receiving MA feedback, but they have a character limit, and you only get them once and can't review them later. An MA-specific email box with a much higher character limit would be great, since that way it's fine if you type in feedback as you go along with custom arcs. This method also makes it easier to report spelling or grammatical errors to designers, since currently it's really hard to squeeze those into the character limit along with more important feedback.
I am, however, a fan of the way the current feedback system lets you open a dialog with the people giving you feedback, so I think a button you could press on your feedback inbox to start a global chat with your feedbackers would be helpful.
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
Warning: This poster likes to play Devil's Advocate.