[2022] Questions for General Q&A Stream - Thursday 17th February 2022 - ft. Mods Ayiza, Ash, Kirby & Squid!

We'll be live on Thursday 17th February on Twitch with another General Q&A! It's time to get your questions in so reply with them in this post!

I've been noticing a couple of posts recently about the questions for General Q&As feeling a bit lacklustre (the quality of the questions and the topics you want us to discuss). I wanted to give some context on it if you were interested. If you're not interested, please just skip this next bit and just ask us your questions!

The general aim of our Weekly Q&As is to connect you with the developers, provide more transparency on game changes and answer your questions where we can. Developers who agree to come on our weekly Q&As are there by choice - it's totally voluntary and usually done in their free time. Each developer works on their dedicated projects & you can see some of these projects in progress on our roadmap.png).

The questions we typically get asked are usually popular player suggestions, which we are happy to give our thoughts on it if we can. The thing to keep in mind, however, is that we can't implement player suggestions into the game without them going through a proper team discussion with the relevant developers who would be working on the relevant project & the wider team if appropriate. This means that sometimes guests on General Q&As won't be able to give you a definitive answer on what you're looking for. Even if it's their specific project they often will still have to run any changes by several people before any definitive changes get made. However, the developers are still happy to share thoughts and bounce ideas around.

I've also seen feedback from some players about question quality on General Q&As. We take most of the questions from Reddit and we try to pick a good mix of questions. One thing to remember here is that the panel will change from week to week, and we must ensure the questions being asked are things that the developers have some experience in.

It's clear that some of you want the Q&As to be discussing bigger topics, else you don't feel it's worth the time. The bigger questions like stuff around Account Security are not appropriate to be asked our General Q&As because it's not something that the developers will have control over. Instead, we intend to tackle larger topics on specific leadership live streams. Leadership livestreams are more planned and they will just generally have better information because it's coming directly from the right people. Our last leadership Livestream was in December and the transcript can be found here. Mod Markos mentioned that he'd like to have an Account Security stream at some point this year, so I've requested some dates for this. I don't have an estimation of when it will be but we'll let you know as soon as we can!

I hope that gives a bit more context on the overall process, and sorry if it's something you're already aware of but I thought it's important to share. I'll try to keep you as much in the loop with information sharing as I can.

In the meantime, I'd love to keep continuing with General Q&As as I think it's an awesome way to connect devs to the community and vice versa. We'll do themed Q&As as well when it's appropriate.

For this week: Ayiza can help with anything PvP-related (including the rewards from the PvP Arena Blog), Squid is interested in Skilling discussions/Broader topics within the game, and Kirby/Ash will take questions about anything game related.

Ask away!

We'll be live on Thursday 17th February on Twitch with another General Q&A! It's time to get your questions in so reply with them in this post!

I've been noticing a couple of posts recently about the questions for General Q&As feeling a bit lacklustre (the quality of the questions and the topics you want us to discuss). I wanted to give some context on it if you were interested. If you're not interested, please just skip this next bit and just ask us your questions!

The general aim of our Weekly Q&As is to connect you with the developers, provide more transparency on game changes and answer your questions where we can. Developers who agree to come on our weekly Q&As are there by choice - it's totally voluntary and usually done in their free time. Each developer works on their dedicated projects & you can see some of these projects in progress on our roadmap.png).

The questions we typically get asked are usually popular player suggestions, which we are happy to give our thoughts on it if we can. The thing to keep in mind, however, is that we can't implement player suggestions into the game without them going through a proper team discussion with the relevant developers who would be working on the relevant project & the wider team if appropriate. This means that sometimes guests on General Q&As won't be able to give you a definitive answer on what you're looking for. Even if it's their specific project they often will still have to run any changes by several people before any definitive changes get made. However, the developers are still happy to share thoughts and bounce ideas around.

I've also seen feedback from some players about question quality on General Q&As. We take most of the questions from Reddit and we try to pick a good mix of questions. One thing to remember here is that the panel will change from week to week, and we must ensure the questions being asked are things that the developers have some experience in.

It's clear that some of you want the Q&As to be discussing bigger topics, else you don't feel it's worth the time. The bigger questions like stuff around Account Security are not appropriate to be asked our General Q&As because it's not something that the developers will have control over. Instead, we intend to tackle larger topics on specific leadership live streams. Leadership livestreams are more planned and they will just generally have better information because it's coming directly from the right people. Our last leadership Livestream was in December and the transcript can be found here. Mod Markos mentioned that he'd like to have an Account Security stream at some point this year, so I've requested some dates for this. I don't have an estimation of when it will be but we'll let you know as soon as we can!

I hope that gives a bit more context on the overall process, and sorry if it's something you're already aware of but I thought it's important to share. I'll try to keep you as much in the loop with information sharing as I can.

In the meantime, I'd love to keep continuing with General Q&As as I think it's an awesome way to connect devs to the community and vice versa. We'll do themed Q&As as well when it's appropriate.

For this week: Ayiza can help with anything PvP-related (including the rewards from the PvP Arena Blog), Squid is interested in Skilling discussions/Broader topics within the game, and Kirby/Ash will take questions about anything game related.

Ask away!