Your opinion wasn’t censored; your other post was flagged for violating our community guidelines.
Your critique is valid, and yes this was considered. However, the context of how this feature came to be is important.
@MTG_Dad posted a Petition to end Blackeye 3 early, which you yourself supported. The problem with forum polls is that they don’t represent a voice of the players involved because:
- Anybody can vote
- Players who don’t visit the forums are less likely to provide input
It would be irresponsible to end a galaxy early without proper input from the players who will be impacted. However, It isn’t viable to ask every empire what they want, and then wait for a bunch of different people to answer.
This is especially true given that BE3 being dead was a time-sensitive issue, and we would risk losing existing players if we didn’t solve the problem quickly.
Given that my presence here is at no point ever guaranteed, it made more sense to empower the players to do this themselves.
Hence, the surrender feature was built and served its purpose.
I am aware that there are problems with it, and it is not considered “complete”. Your assessment of it being a stupid idea is based on its current implementation, not the idea itself.
Although there are problems with its current implementation, there are also problems with the feature not being there. Neither situation is ideal but what we have now is the better of the 2 options.
As mentioned:
You and @Cells have both provided useful feedback, as have others. This is part of how we improve.
However, your insults are distracting and counter-productive as they divert my time and attention away from feature work and towards dealing with community management problems.
Every player here, including you, clicked a button that says they agree to follow our rules and guidelines. It would be a net gain for everybody if you could keep your word.
Here’s a refresher in case you forgot what you agreed to.
Also worth noting:
As we’ve been doing with most new features since I came on, this can easily be disabled if players don’t want it. However, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that everybody else feels the same.
When it’s time to discuss the next round, I recommend making your point in the corresponding thread.