[2020] My plans after 9.2

Aloha,

My biggest 2 doubloons on this.

As with most changes that WeeGee has done over the years.

WAIT, before we go calling gloom and doom and hauling out the torches and pitchforks, WAIT, see how the game play changes.

As always any changes will be evaluated, ships will be looked at, changes will occur.

Mahalo,

-Hapa

Why is this surprising? People ask me questions, I answer them. If you put feedback in the PTS threads, TYPICALLY I don't reply because I try to compile all the feedback to send up as, well feedback... and a lot of the questions in PTS feedback directly, I know if I answer and then things change, people will say I'm a liar or some other thing... But if you look, every now and then I DO answer questions on there, or things pertaining to changes in the General forum (which is what I prefer).

I have always said, people can PM me or ask me questions and I'll give you my honest answer. Nothing has changed.

-Hapa

Well I can't speak to how things were handled for the CV rework, but a lot of people also know my opinion of the CV rework since I am a DD main... and that differs from a lot of the vocal people in the community. I will say, as someone that has been playing since Alpha testing, regardless of what people try to say, CV's ARE in a better place than pre-rework. Are they perfect? NOPE, is ANYTHING in the game perfect? NOPE. Will changes keep happening? YUP!

But that isn't the point I was making. My point was, I am here now, I answer things to the best of my knowledge.

And if I tell you an answer like "lets wait and see" it will literally mean that... Because I have NEVER been all gloom and doom as some in the community, because allegedly the community has been dying for years, the population has been dying for years and everyone has been leaving for years....

This is just another mechanic change that we have to learn to work with. And another day there will be another... and another. Because? Game design! Again, I'm not perfect, no one is, I can understand that, and I will continue to roll with things as we go.

-Hapa

So you've seen that data we have taken from the test server? You know exactly what is measured? What the test results were? What the compiled feedback was?

I don't even know any of that, except the compiled feedback. Because I compile the feed back. Here's the biggest problem. A VERY VERY small part of the population actually plays the public test, or fills out the feedback in the fashion we need in order to gather data. This is also why we have SupterTesters, why a lot of things go into multiple levels of testing, etc.

If feedback wasn't taken, there would be reason to have any communication between the staff and you. There would be literally no PTS. And the game would never have balance changes.

-Hapa

Anyways, back to the OP's post. Enough side talk.

-Hapa