I strongly disagree, ISD often delete posts simply because they are critical of the game.
The GM team did an AMA on reddit, they admitted they provide assets on a whim to who ever they like.
The burdon of evidence regarding botting is firmly in CCP’s hands, this is well established.
Game moderation in eve is a joke, so much of a joke that ccp does not even publish it for peer/player review.
Like botting & GM corruption engaging with CCP over their PR is flogging a dead horse. It is just part of the eve experience.
If you don’t like bots, endless game development drama, are looking for a competitive persistent pvp experience that has a new player development focus then don’t be here.
I love all the above I used to hate botting but now I love the bot, I used to call out GM corruption but now I ticket every loss & I really like buying “limited time only” & “last chance to get” content that is resold 6 month later at 1/4 price.
That brings me to a “do” I was thinking to add to the list:
Do
Include some positive comments even if your feedback is centered on a negative. Thanking and/or complimenting CCP for the hard work they have done is important not only for getting heard, but to motivate CCP to continue to provide the content you enjoy. There must be something good you can think of and the more specific you can be about what you are thankful for the better.
Take your time, maybe even days, before sending feedback. Think it over and make sure you are on point, constructive, and did not miss anything that would invalidate or tarnish the quality of your feedback.
As for listening: Yes and no. They could have done that already in the a few months ago when they changed the behavior of the red dot. Instead of actually fixing the issues in one go, they had to waste double time to fix them at 2 different dates. I was always under the impression that their developer time was so precious and scarce. For that claim, they sure like to waste it unnecessarily.
Begs the question what helped more. The myriad of unhappy players or a CSM guy groveling before them. Whatever it was, this issue got fixed at long last and one can only hope that CCP learns their lesson from this for future “UI quality improvements for new players”.
The forum only adds the ‘replied-to’ portrait indicator if there are intervening posts between the replied-to post and the reply, and if there is also not a quote at the start of the reply.
Did you not notice that your replies to me are all missing the replied-to indicator for other players to see? I still got a replied-to alert, not the ‘someone has quoted you’ alert, so I can tell that you were using the reply button on my specific posts - but if you had not quoted me, the posts in sequence (that is, where nobody posted between us) would not have had any reply-to indicator for anyone else to see (since they cannot see my alerts).
EDIT: Feel free to test this by replying to the last post in this thread, without quoting the poster, to see what happens. If you don’t want to do it in this thread, I would be happy to have a discussion thread with you in Forum Feedback specifically to illustrate the behaviors for CCP Aurora’s review.
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