Beta-Tester / Malfador e-mail

[Q]

The problem:

MM is probably drowing in its e-mail. Therefore a lot of interesting suggestions might get not to their attention. On the other hand some suggestions may be mailed 100x more or less the same, or they may be already on the list for future patches, which increases the congestion of their e-mail.

A idea how this might be improved:

If we post our suggestions in this forum in one or several special topics, that are read regularly by Beta-Testers. They could ask back and make comments and sort out the suggestions they find the most important. As far as I know, they have a much more direct connection to MM, so if they would suggest something it would hardly go unnoticed. They could give us also the feedback which ideas are under work and which have been rejected, so we don't post again and again the same things.

Of course the whole forum is full of suggestions, but until now we don't know if any Beta-Tester is reading a specific topic and will forward it to MM.

Do you think this might be useful and are there any Beta-Testers who would like to start and supervise such a topic in this forum??

[Tsukku]

Having sent two bug reports in to MM this week, I guess I am one of the ones overloading their system. I looked through the forum topics that might be related to the bugs, but did not find any mention of them, so I sent them in. If there was one central place/forum/database/web page that listed all the current bug reports, we could all check there before we send anything in. Is there a place I should be looking for this?

-Tsukku-

[Tampa_Gamer]

No, there is no central place other than on this board. We tried to create message specific threads a couple of times, but they get overwhelming. Plus, duplicate suggestions are how MM determines whether not a lot of people of concerned about a particular issue or want to see a specific feature added.

[Seawolf]

FYI,

We beta-testers read this board quite frequently.

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Seawolf on the prowl

[AJC]

Indeed - often referencing the Posts that are good ideas and are able to be put into the game. Changes that dont force a rewrite of the code and completely changing the nature of the game.

[raynor]

Have any of the beta testers suggested to Aaron that he make ALL of his lists in the game remember the Last place you clicked?

For example, at the start of the game when I'm adding empires manually and going through them marking them for AI control. It would be a *huge* improvement to this screen if it would remember the race you clicked on when you press 'Edit Empire' so that when you come back, you can just click the next one. Instead, I typically go through the list from the top and then from the bottom to make sure I didn't miss anyone. In my Last game, I still missed one! I was actually hating Aaron about that time.