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They also talked about having the next 16 months worth of content in various stages of pre-production/production. Now they scrapped monthly releases and that's completely understandable, but how has what can only be a small fraction of that content made it to live in 18months? Carbine have had staffing problems, but if you look at the current recruitment portal, it's not exactly flooded with junior/mid level dev openings, it's the exec producer role and senior expertise positions. They should've been able to keep on crunching through the content that was planned, albeit at a slower rate.


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I only have one (one) humble cupcake request: Prominent Public Communication outside of JUST on the forums. Forums are nice and all but someone at Carbine has to convince NcSoft that the forums are not always the best place to communicate with the playerbase. Spreading things out on Reddit, Forums, and Twitter is all well and good IF there are enough staff to handle it. If not, then time to dial down the Reddit/Twitter stuff. Some other related requests:  Take a deep breath and get down to implementing some standards globally for Carbine. Coding standards, patch standards, hotfix standards, communication standards. And if there are already standards, stick to em. Community. Support the community, sponsor streamers, and see what you can do about giving guilds a helping hand. Add-on API documentation. It is nonexistant. This needs to change please. Your own developers AND the community should have FULL access to the documentation for your Apollo/Houston API for making addons and how to go about doing so. Sponsor guide-makers. This is something Carbine should take the lead on to encourage guide makers and maybe throw in some cosmetics as part of a guide contest. SkyForge did it and I'm sure this game could do even better. Double-check to make sure that the guides being posted are not reposts of other people's content. Actively and publically punish those that break the rules of the contest. Carrot and stick. We don't see enough of the stick (fair enough) but also very little 'carrots' for good/exceptional behavior. It would be nice to see more of this more often for people who stand out as fantastic contributors to the community (like Katia Managen and Flower Riversong).

Edited January 5, 2016 by FantasticCupcake


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