First of all, I might have attecked the wrong People by accident. The first Page of this Thread kinda had me like "ok, thats it." But the second and third page had some good answers, at least in the way of showing me that people DO care. So, thanks for that.
Of yourse, many information is in the WIKI (and yes, I know of the Wiki). But when I was new, about a Month ago, I had trouble with the two docking mechanisms, the old one still creeped through here and there. That didnt make the Start easier. The Weapons are a very complex part, and some questions remained open, initially. Now, I figured all of this out, but its hard for new players. That doesnt mean that people currently maintaining the WIKI do a bad job, just that they could need more help. And the Wiki already is advanced stuff. You need a lot of trial-and-error to get the things you want. Benchs Videos helped a lot. But I dont like Howtos that much in general, because for me it takes much longer to watch a video (20 min or so) than to read, or crossread, a Text. Of course thats a personal preference and it might be safe to ignore my personal preferences.
Let me tell you that all this comes from the point of a SM-Noob that spent lots and lots of time getting to know this stuff. Of course I found the Wiki. Of course ive already figured out that google searches are a bit messed up because of the old wiki. Of course i know how "" works. Im experienced in the Internet. But I had trouble with this game. Now, yeah, you could say "alpha". But even in Alpha, a bigger player base isnt a *bad* thing. From what I researched, and this might be totally wrong, because as I said, the Sourcepool is almost non existent, but it seems as if the count of "active" and "very active" players is actually dropping. The most info comes from the late 2013.
The Council page shows some of my Problems: Yes, there is a council. But the explanation what it does, why it does it, and what it has done so far is generic. Maybe Im especially easy to annoy with generic texts, becuase my RL-Job has me doing a lot of real work on the base of generic blabla.
So, when I said im missing Info, I didnt miss the Council page.
The text on information collecting and presenting it to the dev-team? So, what are they doing and how is the council controlled? Do they have to publically announce the Opinions theyre presenting to the dev? Or can a Council member basically go through with his own opinion, regardless what the Community thinks? Is there any process behind it or does a council member do what he thinks is the best way to do it.
How are the Votes taking place, whats the method there? Simple majority, schulze-method?
Its not that easy to deliver "information". Forums are a good place for that, because everything is basically logged, you can answer questions and a moderator can change the initial info-text and pinn it when necessary. So saying "forums bring out the worst" it might not be totally wrong, but they can also be used to develop rules and help.
As for "join a faction, theyll help you". Thats nice and all, but not my style. Usually I like to know what im doing before getting into any faction, clan or whatever the game calls it.
Plus, a little bit of detail... Im a member of a little group called MTX that has its own Infrastructure. We actually played SE but found that it will probably never work properly in MP. So, I was send out to find a new game and I thought I succeeded. But the Game is difficult, and currently its a lot of work to explain it to a new player.
Of yourse, many information is in the WIKI (and yes, I know of the Wiki). But when I was new, about a Month ago, I had trouble with the two docking mechanisms, the old one still creeped through here and there. That didnt make the Start easier. The Weapons are a very complex part, and some questions remained open, initially. Now, I figured all of this out, but its hard for new players. That doesnt mean that people currently maintaining the WIKI do a bad job, just that they could need more help. And the Wiki already is advanced stuff. You need a lot of trial-and-error to get the things you want. Benchs Videos helped a lot. But I dont like Howtos that much in general, because for me it takes much longer to watch a video (20 min or so) than to read, or crossread, a Text. Of course thats a personal preference and it might be safe to ignore my personal preferences.
Let me tell you that all this comes from the point of a SM-Noob that spent lots and lots of time getting to know this stuff. Of course I found the Wiki. Of course ive already figured out that google searches are a bit messed up because of the old wiki. Of course i know how "" works. Im experienced in the Internet. But I had trouble with this game. Now, yeah, you could say "alpha". But even in Alpha, a bigger player base isnt a *bad* thing. From what I researched, and this might be totally wrong, because as I said, the Sourcepool is almost non existent, but it seems as if the count of "active" and "very active" players is actually dropping. The most info comes from the late 2013.
The Council page shows some of my Problems: Yes, there is a council. But the explanation what it does, why it does it, and what it has done so far is generic. Maybe Im especially easy to annoy with generic texts, becuase my RL-Job has me doing a lot of real work on the base of generic blabla.
So, when I said im missing Info, I didnt miss the Council page.
The text on information collecting and presenting it to the dev-team? So, what are they doing and how is the council controlled? Do they have to publically announce the Opinions theyre presenting to the dev? Or can a Council member basically go through with his own opinion, regardless what the Community thinks? Is there any process behind it or does a council member do what he thinks is the best way to do it.
How are the Votes taking place, whats the method there? Simple majority, schulze-method?
Its not that easy to deliver "information". Forums are a good place for that, because everything is basically logged, you can answer questions and a moderator can change the initial info-text and pinn it when necessary. So saying "forums bring out the worst" it might not be totally wrong, but they can also be used to develop rules and help.
As for "join a faction, theyll help you". Thats nice and all, but not my style. Usually I like to know what im doing before getting into any faction, clan or whatever the game calls it.
Plus, a little bit of detail... Im a member of a little group called MTX that has its own Infrastructure. We actually played SE but found that it will probably never work properly in MP. So, I was send out to find a new game and I thought I succeeded. But the Game is difficult, and currently its a lot of work to explain it to a new player.