Reviewing Luthier's roadmap

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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

3) Feedback or no feedback, the developers are in fact reading the forums. This can be clearly seen from the fact that they react on the issues mentioned, either by the infrequent development updates or the actual changelog on the patch readme files.

It's just that some people want their hand held more than others, or a bird's eye view of their offices to feel content, but in reality nobody can say they are oblivious to our bug reports, especially since various little details, some of them pretty obscure stuff, that was spotted by certain knowledgeable, dedicated community members has been fixed at various points in time (small details on aircraft and how some aircraft systems operate).

Good post, Blackdog_kt. Very true and I agree with it all except this bit. It seems to me there are a few cases where people with IL-2 history have a somewhat more direct channel to the team but more broadly I don't think much attention is being paid to this forum. This reduces incentive to properly report.

Take my case which I'm sure is not unique. Between work and family I have very little time for gaming. When I can actually sit down in front of my gaming machine I have a choice of a) playing a game and unwinding a bit, or b) hunting down bugs, reproducing them and properly reporting them. I would be willing to do b) but only if I am sure that my effort will be useful to the dev team. Otherwise it is a waste of time and time is valuable to me.

Now assume it is the same for many others which I think is a safe assumption given the average age of this forum. The result is that you have many poor quality reports (i.e. 'game is broken constant ctds plz fix yesterday') but relatively few good quality ones.

I would really like to be proven wrong! If the team is reading then let them post. It wouldn't even need to be exhaustive feedback, just the occasional reminder that they are using our feedback.