' Wrote:To be blunt, that's not what I heard, and my sources are very, very reliable. The polls (which I think many of us agree are often inaccurate) showed otherwise, and the thirty or so dissenting voices spoke very, very loudly - calling them the 'voice of the Community' is like calling me the 'Voice of the Outcasts.' Just because I can post walls of text like our late Lord of the TL;DR doesn't mean that my opinion is worth more or less than anybody's except in a VERY few special cases; ironically, capship control is actually one of these (I have all too much firsthand experience with the subject), but my opinion's still not worth anything considerable by itself, or even with thirty or so supporters. This community has something along the lines of 14,000 members; the vast majority of these aren't honestly affected that much, and probably won't take notice. Thirty voices among those are insignificant.
With all due respect Eppy, as good as your sources might be on this matter, when it comes to what was discussed and referred to among the admins when we reflected on the results of the community feedback on the proposed changes - my sources are first hand. ( I was there)
There was a great deal of outspokenness by some members of the discovery community on the issue, and yes - as you intimate, a vast majority of the community that is "here" on the forums and the server are probably the "silent majority" - but what can we do? We are in a no win situation really - if we ignore community sentiment, ( and the only way we can gauge that is via the forums and skype, or via pm's in game) well.... it's easy to guess what kind of flak we'll be in for - however, when we listen to community sentiment, we get flak anyway.
Im not complaining mind you, at least not in this case - i'm a believer in trying to make do and make things work as they are at any given moment. I have no issue re-adressing changes if it seems thats what the community wants. As far as i'm concerned, its only on rare occasions that the door is closed to different options.
