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12 Aug

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by Chris: Change my mind.
Hey Chris, I see this is your 6th post in a row asking about fishing ;-) The answer is still: coming soon.

If you want to campaign for a feature, ask your friends up up vote over on Feature Upvote: https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/297681/suggestion-add-fishing-pole

I'll lock this thread for now. If other readers support this suggestion, do go on over to Feature Upvote!

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08 Aug

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Originally posted by Kyuiki

That’s really sad to hear given Dean’s post stating it may have been Steam who did it.

Edit: I’ll just add that I really liked this game. I can see the frustration having to deal with balancing people like me with people who wanted more out of it. But staying positive and relying on your community will bring much better continued success if not with this project but the next. Turning on community members though, that’ll leave a bad taste in anyones mouth regardless of their opinion on the game design direction.

That’s really sad to hear given Dean’s post stating it may have been Steam who did it.

Just to note, that's not what I intend to suggest.

There are multiple aspects to my post, to confirm:

  1. We have a (very clear) internal rule that no ban should be issued without a ban reason. This isn't just for the individuals who are banned... it's also for other moderators.
  2. This rule was not followed, so regardless of any valid reason for a ban, I lifted the ban (on steam).
  3. I did outline that while we have this internal rule, those internal rules don't apply to steam who also apply moderation. Just to clear up anyone who might say "but I was also banned with no reason!" - because this rule is an internal one.
  4. The steam community forums are "owned" by the studio, not by steam. Think of it like the store, people can come into a store and say whatever they like but they can also be asked to leave.

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07 Aug

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Looks like your post was moved over to the Bug report forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/2/3450339185479952955/
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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
I can’t find any restrictions or anything on your account that we have access to that would prevent you from posting. might be worth checking with steam support?
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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Your post is still up?

It is in the support/bugs section. You posted this in the general section. The forum post will only show in the section it was posted in, not the ones above it
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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Only forty permanent bans have been issued on this forum. Which is quite a small number considering the quantity of posts.

The the reference ban was provided without a ban reason; which is against our own internal instructions so I reversed it. Bans are a last resort and require their ban reason to be genuine, and provided at the time of the ban.

As such, I reversed the ban.
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Originally posted by Kyuiki

Are you saying that Steam doesn’t show you — a developer of a game who has to manage a community — who it was that performed the ban? If that’s the case how can you even claim that it’s Steam doing it and not some developer on your team that is simply getting upset and lying to you? “No, sir! I didn’t ban anyone today!”

If Steam is truly such a poorly built system that gives you no username reference at all as to who performed the ban, I think you should hire a community manager that moderates the existing ban list and makes sure Steam staff isn’t for some reason going rogue on your community. Because outside of racism, discrimination, and / or misinformation Steam shouldn’t be touching posts from your community. Doing so makes you as a lead developer look really bad. They’re pretty much attacking your reputation.

This post wasn’t constructive but it was in no way harmful. Your analogy is also so horribly delivered. You’re pretty much saying that eating at a restaur...

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The ban was issued by our team, hence I was able to revert it. This is against our own policy, which is no ban should be issued without a genuine reason (as a last resort) and that reason is required to be shown in the ban reason text.

To date only forty bans have been issued, which considering the post quantity is a very small number.

I am awaiting more information but that is all the I have about this ban so far.

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Originally posted by falloutfan1987

The post was polite, voicing his own personal issues with the game to you, the devs, while being polite and courteous. There was nothing with malice or intent to insult. The fact that you and the rest of your team are attempting to censor this kind of feedback is absolutely appalling. I am not saying that you deserve to be mistreated or insulted, but people including myself have bought the game and would at least like a standing as to what is in the works.

Everyone knows that the forums are "not a right" but you guys definitely need to adjust how you accept feedback and healthy criticism. It is not a good look for you to come in and be delivering backhanded comments on a post on reddit like this.

Then you remove Munnky from the discord and block him on twitter. This is someone with a personal vendetta against Munnky for voicing his opinion. Shame on you and the rest of the moderators. I have already left the discord, uninstalled the game, and unfollowed you all on...

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I reverted the ban as I can’t see why it was applied. I cant revert steam issued bans, only ones issued by our staff/moderators.

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Originally posted by Munnky78

While I appreciate the ban lift it clearly says "a developer banned you". It seems i am also banned from Discord and Twitter so that would imply it was not steam. I submitted to steam support to confirm this. I have worked with customers and clients all my working life. While yes, you can tell a customer to go elsewhere, it's not in the better interest of the business to alienate concerned or frustrated customers.

My opinions are valid. I come to the community with them to discuss in a civil manner. I even held off on a review as while I can't recommend the the game I didn't want it adding to the score. I was holding out for improvements. I'm not sure I will ever be able to recommend it at this point but who knows.

However the previous replys have worded it better than I could so I will leave it at that.

I cannot lift steam issued bans, I can only lift ones we applied. I mentioned above simply because there are some blank bans that I cannot revert. Only forty bans have been issued, so not that many.

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I have unbanned you. You should not receive a ban that does not have a ban warning from our staff. Note that steam does regularly ban people from our forums (of the forty bans we have ever issued, most of them are done by steam staff) and they don’t always fill out the ban reasons.

However, please do read the steam community guidelines as posting on the forums is not a “right” and steam makes this very clear. You are expected to be polite and it’s not just open season for whatever opinion you want. It’s a place for measured and considered discussion with the devs.

Think of it like going into someone’s store. The forums are our store, and while you can indeed say whatever you want, you can also be asked to leave.

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Submit these to https://icarus.featureupvote.com/ and upvote suggestions there that you agree with. I'll pass these comments on to the devs, but FeatureUpvote gets the most attention from the dev team. We've already implements heaps of player suggestions from there.

05 Aug

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We’re excited to be introducing our new Attachment System this week for our Week Thirty-Five update, giving you a whole new way to personalize your gameplay by customizing your melee weapons and tools with valuable new attachments. Two new benches, the Alteration Bench at Tier 3 and Advanced Alteration Bench at Tier 4 will provide your workshop for crafting and equipping 25 attachments available for a range of your melee weapons and tools. Designed for repeat use, items can have attachments equipped, unequipped and shared around, and provide some basic and creative perks, from gold collection buffs through to electro shock inflictions. Read all about this new feature below.



Attachment & Customization Benches
Two new attachment benches have been added to the Blueprint Tree, the Alteration bench at Tier 3 and the Advanced Altera... Read more
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    /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct
A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.