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posts that are this length are extremely difficult to address properly point by point.

however, i have read through the post and appreciate the effort that has been put into it. if OP has some specific questions i would be happy to answer them.

a comment i would give is that i feel that some topics have already been addressed in the previous post & comments i made, and a a lot of the grievances there are actually covered in that post so perhaps all the comments etc weren't read by OP.

when you deal chip damage

this probably comes down to 2 factors:

1. i'm british
2. me and seth aren't filming the update videos together due to covid, and a lot of our energy is from being in the same place together & interacting with eachother. the last 2 videos i have just been talking to a camera

100% nothing to do with the content that i'm talking about!

hey - this is getting changed in maintenance tomorrow alongside balance update.

it's not being scared of negativity - it is trying to reduce toxicity on the sub.

if i was scared of negativity i am in the wrong line of work lol

• skeleton dragons isn't out until friday - we can't boost a card that isn't out yet!
• we didn't want to start a season with no card boost for players and it is the prince's season after all
• when skeleton dragons is out it will be boosted alongside prince

hope that clears this up for you

i guess you'll just have to trust me on that! it's not in my best interest to not come on the subreddit, it's a pretty important source of info for a lot of things. plus what would i do in my spare time if i'm not on reddit lol.

i will say however that one problem i find with this subreddit is that if i comment on anything that doesn't reveal update info (fan art/new card ideas for example), i get lots of toxic responses "why are you replying to fan art, why are you replying to this but not addressing this?".

this leads to the point i made of communication vs update information.

for the health of the sub and community it is sometimes better to just not respond to smaller posts at all if it just makes people more toxic in the long run.

hope that clears up the thought process there

all community managers at supercell work differently, and have different communities. i talk to the other CM's at supercell daily and i am aware of how they work.

me and darian run communities for two completely different games with two completely different development structures and pipelines. all of which affects the way we interact with the community.

thank you for the feedback!

> So no improvements on progression at all?

not sure where you got that from? as said in the main post our goal is to get players to be able to level up more than 8 cards easier

not necessarily - my job requires me to be very flexible when it comes to stuff like this. if for some reason the update was ready in 2 weeks, i would have to adjust any release plans accordingly.

for example, 2 months of teasers was planned because i knew we would have that big period of time before release.

Thanks for the question. Let's get into it!

Communication vs Update info

From this comment, I think the real issue that you are getting at here isn’t communication in general - it’s what you want communication to be - which is actually update news etc.

To go back to a comment I saw posted by yourself when I did an interview with KFC Clash - and others that I also read recently where you claimed the interview was a jok...

1. yes! the tick was also responding to say i had seen it.
2. maybe, it depends how this update goes. i would love to get a roadmap out to you guys.
3. we have actually increased progression MASSIVELY since 4 years ago. i would actually disagree that if you start the game today you are 4 years behind everyone else in terms of progress.
   if we ever implement a new level then we will also adjust progression accordingly. i did already comment on progression in the main post with our view on getting people to use more than 8 cards.
4. not quite sure what this means? an epic chest appears in the shop for 10k gold every so often
5. myself and seth wrote a post about gem rush that we didn't end up publishing but it explains that we have instead added gems into a lot of other places (pass royale track chests, challenges, quests) all of which are a more effective and fair way of distributing gems to players rather than one event that players miss. maybe i'll p...

yeh i didnt say it wasn't well written, and as it is most upvoted it obviously means that people want an answer. i am not disputing that.

however the tone of the comment (i can see its now been edited and even a message added which is great - thanks for that u/iDetroy! ) was one that could welcome toxic behaviour and you can see that in the comments. there's even an upvoted comment complaining about me needing to sleep for example lol

i reddit a lot in my spare time, have an 8+year old account so i know that a big part of the way a comment is received is the way it is written and this is a good example of that. not that it was in any way intentional by the author.

i touched on this in the main post. but i guess a good way to think about it is like a movie release. if actors etc posted constant updates from the set including plot points etc - would the movie still be as fun when it came out? would as many people still watch it? where would the excitement be etc.

this is different to something like, a kickstarter game where a player has already bought into something that is not released yet, and they want a result. from there dev diaries and week by week updates on what is being worked on make sense.

royale is live and it is in everyone's best interests to create new and exciting update content. i guess a level of trust towards the developers (us) is needed in this case to trust us that we are working on the update (until we release more info).

i already read your standardisation post and thought it was great!

we actually will be standardising ALL troop deployment types in the season 12 balance update so i found your post even more interesting. seth will probably be able to go into this better however - i'll show him your post and see what he thinks.

bro, this comment is exactly why i am taking my time writing a proper response to that comment... i'm not skipping it.
it is the comment that has attracted the most toxicity (which you've just proved) and i want to give it a proper, well written response. i've already started drafting a google doc for it.

it will take the same amount of time to answer that question than all other questions combined just because of the toxic behavior & comments surrounding it - i need to nail my response and will reply to that comment tomorrow.

1. see answer here
2. balance changes & new cards take the most work. settling on the card idea can take months! but again - they are being worked on alongside other things. seth & an artist aren't spending 100% of their time designing a card.
   then artists will come up with the concept and theme of the seasons and start work on the tower skins, emotes & arena at least two months in advance, maybe more
3. yes we have some reworks we want to test for wizard & bowler