Dear to who ever wants to listen I as a veteran feel like we need more power to the player after all we are what keeps the server running. I know we cant have things changed or added frequently but if we could have polls on things that stay and things that are added and go. Because dont get me wrong change is good but not all the changes that I've seen on ECC over the course of the last two years have been beneficial to that of the server cap and community. I feel like we are per say attracting the wrong crowd with certain things. And if this so called server has state of the art tech why is it that were not really up to date with certain things like a static map at least and also if we are a so called economy server why is it that there is terrible balance of the servers economy and certain features and prices fluctuation to drastically. One thing I want see is some sort of economy board if you will that will fix up prices and come up with ways weekly to flip this crash around. I'm basing my polls off of Runescape which has solely that power to players, organized weekly polls of new additions and good all round community that attracts players from around the world and makes them stay. http://services.runescape.com/m=poll/
I actually suggested EXACTLY this and it got denied, might as well have a second shot though. I would love to see a form of voting implemented like this.
Sometimes there are polls for bigger decisions, but often the majority votes and comments only have minor influence on what happens... Once in a while there is good reason (majority vote ends up not being available/not working/causes severe lag/etc), but other times it is purely an executive decision. :/ I would love to see far more community input on changes; especially considering there are not many other big economy servers to learn from. "Shots in the dark," "hoping for the best," "what 'is the best option'," etc. are not always the right way to go. One cannot keep a community happy if there is no community input. But, as OhMrs said, there have been a couple other suggestions like this that got denied. Always worth trying again though, because things can change.
I highly +1 this suggestion. Over the course of my past two years I have seen little to no change in the current amount of players online at a time, at max its gone from 200 to about 300. I believe adding more player and community input into server changes will attract more users in the long run. I know andrew does this, but its rare that it does happen. I think that unless the decision is absolutely mandatory, like the exp change, then the community should be the one to decide.
Just to put it out there we used to have a Live Map but I believe it was extremely laggy so it was removed.
