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Hold off on the flaming, gentlemen. This suggestion was not made for trolls, spam, etc. It was not made due to events, certain people, or anything. No drama ^_^


Suggestions threads are either re-suggestions, spark huge arguments, re-suggestions, or trolling. They are discussed mostly by people with no coding, modding, modeling, testing (or what have you) experience. A lot of golden suggestions came from these forums, such as thermals, CSBs, emplacements, mortars, etc. And I'm sure deviation has come from somewhere deep and dark inside the archives.


However.. since I basically live on the suggestions forum, among others, I suggest that the moderators remove the suggestion forum, for the above reasons. IMO, it is counter productive, and just turns (mostly) quality suggestions into arguments, flaming, spam, and whatnot.


But don't be too upset. I also suggest that there be a "suggestions box" of sorts. People leave suggestions to the modding team, so that the proper people get to see it. The link to make a suggestion should be on the *** list, in hopes that someone will read it before sending a suggestion in.


If the mods would like, after reviewing a suggestion of quality, it be released into a specific area for forum-goers to publicly discuss. For example, if someone suggested to remove HAT kits, and the DEV team would want to see the community's reaction, thoughts, etc.

We'll take it under advisement.

No need to discus it because it will lead to flaming.

Locked.

This is being discussed by the team.

Any decision will be announced if and when it is reached.

Dev1200 wrote:A lot of golden suggestions came from these forums, such as thermals, CSBs, emplacements, mortars, etc. And I'm sure deviation has come from somewhere deep and dark inside the archives.

Actually none of thous things where actually spared from the suggestions forums, with the possible exception of deviation which iirc came from the community modding forums but not 100% sure on that. Thermals came because Mosquil found a way of doing them, it has been something we have always wanted and known about. The idea of CSBs really came from the Bovington 2007 visit when we where having lunch on a CSB and when we really stated talking about them in depth, although I'm sure the idea had come up before some where, but wasn't until I figured out a way of actually putting them ingame in a way that worked until we where on board with the idea. Deployables was a brain wave of eggman iirc and mortars was something we had been working on for a long, long time, it just took a very long time to make them


Really the best suggestions we get from the suggestions forums are on gameplay ideas, ways to improve the mod in little, some times big ways since from new assets etc, our MAs pretty much have all that covered with suggesting stuff we could make for this job etc. I can't think of any good examples of any recent good suggestions but sometimes they come along, its just a matter of wading though all the re-suggestions etc to find them with is annoying...