For the RCR: My Discord, @Jayenbee's Discord, @Unseelie's Discord, and @LunaticOnTheGrass' Discord are all available through the Official Discord Server. You can either DM us through there or ping us in the Dev Lounge. Please do not ping us outside of the dev lounge for dev purposes.
Regarding communication within the Story Working Groups:
My post on the subject of story team relations with the community 12 days ago:
Wouldn't that just make things more complicated? I've always felt like the group chats worked alright. Though if course sometimes conversations between faction leaders could make it a bit difficult to find the questions I agree.
And for everything else it was always possible to ping admins or devs respectively directly.
But at least there is some way.... I'll join that discord then.
Unanswered pings in Story chat where Kaze, Xalrok and LunaticOnTheGrass can be found.
Jan 14 [9:16 AM] Ageira~SnakThree: @Developer Since I was booted out of Rheinland chat without notice, I will have to ask you here, are there any plans with inactive JG in Hamburg?
Jan 15 [11:54 AM] Ageira~SnakThree: @Developer What is future for Alberta and Leduc?
Jan 20 [7:36 AM] Ageira~SnakThree: @Developer Would it be possible to receive Pueblo extension for ship building and Stegodon stationary ship?
Jan 21 [1:54 PM] Ageira~SnakThree: @Developer Are you even reading any of this? Or is this useless chat now?
Jan 21 [9:53 PM] Ageira~SnakThree: @Developer You have failed this community.
@Durandal
Kind of related, but not really. Are there any particular reasons why Outcast leaders are not being involved in any story dev chats? As an Outcast leader I was never (not in 2016-17, not now) invited to any of those, while when I was a Core leader for a short period of time, I was added to the chat instantly. If anything, I would like to be there if possible, thank you.
I don't think adding an extra layer of "golden official dudes in charge of communication" who will or wont repeat what others said will help, especially since they'll probably end up being yes-men who only tell devs what they think they want to hear.
Department heads should have the responsibility to read and answer things that are in their field, or delegate the task to someone in their department who already knows what's going on and the reasoning behind it, with little need to have it explained to them themselves.
For that, organizing sub forums to be more clearly for the individual departments (like "balance", "storyline", "game masters"), with a clear outline of what belongs there, would be better than the current categories. (I know "balance" category exists but that seems to be more a historical coincidence than having a category directed at certain people to read)
Those subforums should also be as visible and accessible as "general" or most things will probably just end up there anyway.
(01-22-2020, 02:20 PM)Durandal Wrote: For the RCR: My Discord, @Jayenbee's Discord, @Unseelie's Discord, and @LunaticOnTheGrass' Discord are all available through the Official Discord Server. You can either DM us through there or ping us in the Dev Lounge. Please do not ping us outside of the dev lounge for dev purposes.
Regarding communication within the Story Working Groups:
My post on the subject of story team relations with the community 12 days ago:
(01-22-2020, 07:29 PM)Alley Wrote: You're missing the point over and over. Unreal.
It's almost as unreal as you pretending to be in favor of transparency, working with people you dislike, St Denis, and pretending to be opposed to coups or heavy decisions.
I'm glad you finally changed, and 100% sure it's not just to participate in rocking the boat strong enough to make it topple over.