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[Seikojin]

Sorry if the answering of particular questions/threads over others seems arbitrary. We on the Development side try to answer questions that we can (sadly, we can't answer all questions) when we can (only so many hours in the day). If a question isn't answered, it could be for a number of reasons, including (but not limited to):

• Can't answer it because it's part of hypothetical "future stuff"
• The answer has already been mentioned by someone else in the thread
• Answering the question may require discussion from the team first; we do end up discussing questions we see in the Forums pretty often, even if those don't end up turning into posts.
• The dev replying doesn't know the answer; As much as we try (and we do!) we are not all human encyclopedias of all in-game and under-the-hood knowledge simultaneously. A lot of you ask big and deep questions that require research.
• And finally: The question wasn't asked politely.

With the earlier post in this thread, I happened to be reading the Forums while away on Vacation, saw some good questions that I could answer, and decided to do so. Nothing more to it than that.

Today, I'm in the office on a non-work day fixing bugs and making stuff for the Temple of Elemental Evil, because I genuinely want to improve the game. Which may sound like "PR speak", but it's true.

Anyway! Happy New Year, all.

Hey whadda ya know, im in my home office working to make sure our product is good too! Happy New year! Oh yeah, put u25 up on lam :P

[InsanityIsYourFriend]

Sorry if the answering of particular questions/threads over others seems arbitrary. We on the Development side try to answer questions that we can (sadly, we can't answer all questions) when we can (only so many hours in the day). If a question isn't answered, it could be for a number of reasons, including (but not limited to):

• Can't answer it because it's part of hypothetical "future stuff"
• The answer has already been mentioned by someone else in the thread
• Answering the question may require discussion from the team first; we do end up discussing questions we see in the Forums pretty often, even if those don't end up turning into posts.
• The dev replying doesn't know the answer; As much as we try (and we do!) we are not all human encyclopedias of all in-game and under-the-hood knowledge simultaneously. A lot of you ask big and deep questions that require research.
• And finally: The question wasn't asked politely.

With the earlier post in this thread, I happened to be reading the Forums while away on Vacation, saw some good questions that I could answer, and decided to do so. Nothing more to it than that.

Today, I'm in the office on a non-work day fixing bugs and making stuff for the Temple of Elemental Evil, because I genuinely want to improve the game. Which may sound like "PR speak", but it's true.

Anyway! Happy New Year, all.

You know... I wish I had a job that I actually cared enough about to go in on my free time....
Steel, you and any other developers that may or may not be at the office are awesome, I know there is most likely more of you than those that are allowed to post, thank you all! Please tell Tolero to post more, I enjoyed her posts, although Cordovan is fun too.

[kmoustakas]

Sorry if the answering of particular questions/threads over others seems arbitrary. We on the Development side try to answer questions that we can (sadly, we can't answer all questions) when we can (only so many hours in the day). If a question isn't answered, it could be for a number of reasons, including (but not limited to):

• Can't answer it because it's part of hypothetical "future stuff"
• The answer has already been mentioned by someone else in the thread
• Answering the question may require discussion from the team first; we do end up discussing questions we see in the Forums pretty often, even if those don't end up turning into posts.
• The dev replying doesn't know the answer; As much as we try (and we do!) we are not all human encyclopedias of all in-game and under-the-hood knowledge simultaneously. A lot of you ask big and deep questions that require research.
• And finally: The question wasn't asked politely.

With the earlier post in this thread, I happened to be reading the Forums while away on Vacation, saw some good questions that I could answer, and decided to do so. Nothing more to it than that.

Today, I'm in the office on a non-work day fixing bugs and making stuff for the Temple of Elemental Evil, because I genuinely want to improve the game. Which may sound like "PR speak", but it's true.

Anyway! Happy New Year, all.

We're not dissing you man, we're just happy someone answered and thus striving for attention! Happy new year

[Connman]

We're not dissing you man, we're just happy someone answered and thus striving for attention! Happy new year

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[PermaBanned]

Only thing I can think of is a forum area where folk could post new threads, but not replies - so if you started a thread only a staffer could actually reply. But that would have to be policed and people's rights taken away if they abuse that. And they still might not be able to answer everything.

Actually, I really like that idea!

• Title it as a "Dear Devs" subforum or some such.
• Post only, no replies by players.
• Posting permission restrictions like:
•• Premium/ViP only (reduce abuse by throw away accounts).
•• No posting if you currently have Infraction points (Warnings don't count).

• Policed & Filtered (by a dedicated intern maybe?) to flag/forward questions to relevant Devs or Departments; and to remove any "questions" like "When will you guys ever learn to code properly?" or "Hey {forum handle} why did you ask such a dumb question?" with 2 post removals giving a 6 month posting ban from this specific subforum and 4 earn a permanent posting ban from this specific subforum. The policing & filtering intern could also link repeatedly asked questions to already existing answers.