Yeah dunno where all this "YOU COULD NEVER INFLUENCE THE MOD" malarkey came from. Yes you could, and it's only very recently that this mantra of "your RP doesn't matter as long as we say it doesn't matter" has taken effect; ultimately spawning into this flawed RCR system and the general feeling that the development process is no longer a two-way street between factions and developers, and there's no mutual respect from the developers towards the players.
And even if influencing the mod isn't on the table, in many cases plenty of factions are desperately clamouring for something to do more so than just wanting to influence the mod. And from what I've seen in my own case and in many cases across the community when people try to suggest things to pursue or ideas to bring in activity, they're stonewalled with faux excuses. As it's looking like the next activity check may yet again cleave another large pool of factions, and it's absolutely shocking that the developers are totally oblivious to this as if they can't really be arsed to care.
@Lythrilux: May be the people who say that had never tried. May be they tried and failed. All I can say if someone is really serious about making tangible impact it's better to dive and learn modding. My stuff lives on there for example. At the end of the day someone has to make assets, someone has to put it all together, and relative to that any ideas alone ain't worth much.
(02-05-2020, 01:31 PM)Treewyrm Wrote: @Lythrilux: May be the people who say that had never tried. May be they tried and failed. All I can say if someone is really serious about making tangible impact it's better to dive and learn modding. My stuff lives on there for example. At the end of the day someone has to make assets, someone has to put it all together, and relative to that any ideas alone ain't worth much.
Been there, done that, realized I utterly wasted my time and I'm never getting it back. Even if you learn stuff and put yourself forward to help with the workload you either get ignored or disappointed, and it's not worth it.
(02-05-2020, 01:34 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: Been there, done that, realized I utterly wasted my time and I'm never getting it back. Even if you learn stuff and put yourself forward to help with the workload you either get ignored or disappointed, and it's not worth it.
Well then I guess you've failed. Being ignored at first and then being disappointed was the least of troubles I had to deal with. Not that it should be normal experience, but then so are many other things not even related to individual personalities that were around. Some people were annoying to deal with, sure, but it is technical issues that often were much severe blocks.