ustream cast

So the Ustream cast today was cool with lots of good questions and answers, but I couldn’t help but notice all the base questions were completely over looked and no comments at all except for they “noted” when someone asked about recipe storage in bases. That’s it nothing more or less. I was on it for about 4 hours asking all kinds of base questions…and I got nothing. im guessing this means one of two things. 1. bases are dead to them and there is no hope in sight for us, or 2. Something is coming soon and they are very tight lipped. I guess we will wait some more and see.

I will hope for the latter but expect the former.

There was someone spamming about base raiding and it was noted that it caused a LOT of strain on the servers, after which I asked a question about base's in general and Zwillinger immediately replied "Nothing I can discuss right now" so perhaps there is something in the pipeline?

They didn't really deflect much away about the Recipe Storage in bases, of course bases have limited function in storage as it is currently so I can see the possibility - only problem would be mass hoarding.

Fury

From the private conversations I have had with a few Devs in the resent past, I do believe that something with bases is on the horizon. Just how far is not yet known. I love that this community is so passionate. My hope is that what ever we get is worth the years of wait.

Please note that the term "horizon" can have very different contexts to players and Devs (in part because the Devs know what's happening, while we don't). Bear in mind that any initiative started TODAY will almost certainly take A YEAR to bear fruit and reach a completed state. That's just simple "workflow rules" dictating that kind of thing.

So anything where there is (now) a push to get resources for Base Development will probably take a year or more to result in a releasable product.

For players, a year of "lag" between offering feedback and making suggestions ... and seeing the results of same ... tends to stretch the player's definition of the term "horizon" in ways that are both good, and bad. We (the players) tend to think of "horizon" as meaning ... the next Issue ... because we want stuff NOW.



Of course, the most helpful thing would be for Black Pebble (or his delegated authority figure) to *permit* the Dev team to come here, into this forum, to lay out the *POSSIBLE* shape of things to come for Bases ... with the express understanding, up front ... that it may not actually happen or even wind up that way in the final cut.

My favorite way of phrasing this kind of interaction is, "Help Us Help YOU!"

Because the simple fact is, some of the most powerful features in the game are ones that are present because of feedback from the community to the Devs. We've already seen how feedback in the All Things Art threads for Noble Savage and Tunnel Rat have led to ideas and features being implemented into the game.



So I ask the people who have Red Names to do us all a favor, by making it possible to leverage the power of this forum, and the people who devote their hopes and dreams to it ... I ask that you "Help Us Help YOU!"

Give us some "ground rules" and a *direction* to go in ... and with your guidance we The Builders will do all we can to advance The State Of The Game with you. But you have to be here to interact with us, lest the "evidence" of our senses tell us (rightly or wrongly) that we aren't sending feedback to people who care ... but are instead uselessly shouting at no one in an empty room.



Help Us Help YOU!

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...