Goonhub
09-19-2021, 02:46 PM
From what I can remember, ass day was removed because the player numbers usually went down significantly, because people just didn't really enjoy ass day. As far as I know it didn't really have anything to do with issues of moderation?
We tried to replace it with ass jam for a while to just make things a bit wackier for a day instead of making it "you will be randomly murdered" day (because people did not enjoy that), but in the end that wasn't really very popular anyway, so the whole thing was just done away with altogether.
As for the human resprite, personally I like the new sprites, but I can understand that this is subjective. I do think we had a thread up for several months were one could give feedback on it, even if one was not on the discord?
I can't really weigh in on tasers and stuff, since I do not really play security or taser-bearing-antags much, but my impression of the overall shift towards more "well-balanced" stuff was that it should give players agency in fighting back. Personally, I do not really enjoy stuff like being instantly stunned by csabers and the like - I like my rounds being more peaceful, just doing my job and rarely being murdered, but that's just me.
I haven't checked the values on the cooldown nerf of the soundmaker, but generally there has been an effort to reduce the amount of stuff that is just kind of an affront to the auditory senses. (stuff like equalizing volume on sounds, making sure all sounds respect sound settings, etc)
I feel very strongly that this is good, because I like having my sound turned on while playing without having something blow my ears off, and I generally think that things in the game should attack a players *character*, not the player themself. As someone who is often bothered by loud noises, I really appreciate changes like this.
(Instrument artifacts sounds for instance, could also use some pruning.)
All in all, what I think I am trying to say is, there *are* people who these changes are for, I like most of them. Some of the past changes, like the removal of pathology, went against systems I was quite fond off, but I do think that it made the game better for the average player. Of course, not everyone will like the changes, but I think most of the people like most of our changes.
Overall, I think there are plenty of ways to bring input? Like, I don't wanna literally say "you aren't on the discord, so how are we supposed to get your input?", but it's not completely out there, is it?
The discord and forums are the way we interact with each other, because doing balance polls ingame during rounds is just not efficiently possible.
Lots of people who are not admins have given input on the sprites or have made sprites themselves, so that they end up in a way that they like. I am not sure what other kinds of giving input you would like apart from the discord or forums?
We tried to replace it with ass jam for a while to just make things a bit wackier for a day instead of making it "you will be randomly murdered" day (because people did not enjoy that), but in the end that wasn't really very popular anyway, so the whole thing was just done away with altogether.
As for the human resprite, personally I like the new sprites, but I can understand that this is subjective. I do think we had a thread up for several months were one could give feedback on it, even if one was not on the discord?
I can't really weigh in on tasers and stuff, since I do not really play security or taser-bearing-antags much, but my impression of the overall shift towards more "well-balanced" stuff was that it should give players agency in fighting back. Personally, I do not really enjoy stuff like being instantly stunned by csabers and the like - I like my rounds being more peaceful, just doing my job and rarely being murdered, but that's just me.
I haven't checked the values on the cooldown nerf of the soundmaker, but generally there has been an effort to reduce the amount of stuff that is just kind of an affront to the auditory senses. (stuff like equalizing volume on sounds, making sure all sounds respect sound settings, etc)
I feel very strongly that this is good, because I like having my sound turned on while playing without having something blow my ears off, and I generally think that things in the game should attack a players *character*, not the player themself. As someone who is often bothered by loud noises, I really appreciate changes like this.
(Instrument artifacts sounds for instance, could also use some pruning.)
All in all, what I think I am trying to say is, there *are* people who these changes are for, I like most of them. Some of the past changes, like the removal of pathology, went against systems I was quite fond off, but I do think that it made the game better for the average player. Of course, not everyone will like the changes, but I think most of the people like most of our changes.
Overall, I think there are plenty of ways to bring input? Like, I don't wanna literally say "you aren't on the discord, so how are we supposed to get your input?", but it's not completely out there, is it?
The discord and forums are the way we interact with each other, because doing balance polls ingame during rounds is just not efficiently possible.
Lots of people who are not admins have given input on the sprites or have made sprites themselves, so that they end up in a way that they like. I am not sure what other kinds of giving input you would like apart from the discord or forums?