[Town Hall] Winter 2021 Topic Thread
Topics, get ya topics heah!

Hey everyone, it's that time again. The Winter 2021 Town Hall has been announced and now we need all of you to tell us what you'd like to hear about in this Town Hall. This is your opportunity to give us your feedback and let us know what you'd like to discuss and hear about during the meeting. Help us, help you. Let's make this Town Hall the best one yet!

TOPIC SUGGESTIONS

You can respond to this thread with your suggestions, however, PLEASE in the interest of keeping this easy to manage, do not engage in discussion about the topics here. If you want to discuss them, create a relevant thread in the correct part of the BGBB and note that not every topic will make the cut but we'll do our best to get as much in as possible.

SCHEDULE

The town hall is THREE HOURS long.

It begins with speeches from the admin, who offer updates on their respective areas of the game (Building, Coding, Operations, etc.).

Then we move into the discussion section, where we run through an agenda of player & admin submitted topics.

We then close it out and people can leave or stick around to chat with the various admin.

WHAT TO SUGGEST

If you're stuck thinking for suggestions to give, here are some general topic categories that you can think about:

Code Improvements - What could be changed code-wise to improve the game?

In Character Topics - What can we do In Character to make Sindome a better place for all?

Out of Character Topics - How can we help you, the players feel more at home in Sindome?

If you're still stuck, then take a look at the previous topics thread

WARNING

Please do not reveal any IC info in this thread. Again, this is just for posting ideas for topics (you can explain your topic in as much depth as you want, but don't get into it with others about the topics they post). Create a new BGBB thread to discuss something if you want.

PRE-READ INFO

If this is your first town hall, please refer to the posts below for a list of previous posts relating to the most recent Town Hall.

Winter 2020 Town Hall Agenda

Winter 2020 Town Hall Log

Winter 2020 Town Hall Topic Thread

(Edited by Slither at 7:31 am on 12/27/2020)

Pros, cons, questions, complaints, concerns?

Grid 3.0

Now that the dust has settled post-launch, what's great? What's kinda weird?

Now that the modern groundwork is in place, are there any updates from the staff end on what's coming next (integration with IC systems, boosting the decker archetype, etc.)

There have been a few threads where people have said that adding X would be unbalanced or Y would. It would be nice to hear what the philosophy is behind how things are balanced..

Especially I'm curious why it's important or considered in a game where it is highly probable that two players will not be balanced when they meet/compete.

Resources

I would like to discuss the merits of potentially 'inflating' the SinDome economy. Earlier in the year, the ability to absolutely STACK npc item trades led to players in the mix being able to generate 2-3x the weekly "cap". I personally felt that RP, especially risky RP was much more common when people weren't as concerned with losing all of their resources and having to spend 6 months building back up.

I also think there is a disconnect in the wealth feedback loop. It is much easier for an already rich player to generate chyen and hoard it, than for a less rich player to build up their capital. This creates a positive feedback loop for the wealthy, wherein their bank account only grows, while creating a negative feedback loop for the poor, where their account only shrinks.

I don't have a solution, or even self-consensus if this is necessarily a problem. It is simply an observation.

Topside Crime

What can we do as a community to make this happen more often? What is preventing people from making those big moves in gold, green, or even blue sector?

Service Mixer perception

There was a strong push to really reshape the player-character perception of service mixers for a short burst. How did that turn out? Do we need to keep working on that?

I don't know exactly why this is, but some discussion on this would be great. Perhaps the ceiling is too low and people feel like they can't progress in a gang as much as they'd like?

(Edited by Storm at 1:47 am on 1/3/2021)

This may happen all the time, but the perception is that firmly established characters don't fall at the hands of less-established characters except once in a blue moon. Instead, it comes off as self-induced or the work of an NPC. How can PCs punch up?

to followup and flesh out something in the same vein that I was thinking of making an idea post about.

food for thought:

What is the best way to allow biomods to add custom colors?

Is it a custom skintone for the @nakeds that you change?

Could it be like tailoring, where each naked is given an %color that you can callout?

Could it be like makeup with strings of colorful but uniform text?

This may be a shade too far, but could it be fully customizable like art?

(Edited by Slither at 11:25 am on 1/9/2021)

This skill seems like it's a pretty non-interactive money farm for most people who put the time into it, and that runs counter to most of the other design philosophy in the game as it stands today.

I would also suggest it promotes a game culture whereby people don't carry or purchase many items of any value, social/rp items, functional, or otherwise which negatively impacts the game economy and diversity of playstyles.

(Edited by Slither at 11:26 am on 1/9/2021)

Also this is not a new issue but seems to have been growing more and more overtime and I think its a OOC culture problem for the most part, regardless of the IC excuses we might find for it.

Also I am kind of brainstorming here, but most of what I am suggesting is related one way or another.

RISK AVERSION

I've noticed an ever increasing trend in this, some other oldbies and midbies have noticed it too but we are all equally to blame, as much as new players that just don't know better.

Why has this become a trend? What are the roots of this? How can we fix it in order to encourage players to feel more comfortable into taking risks more often?

HOARDING

Another ancient problem, players hoarding items and money just to pile up a measure of wealth that gathers dust for a rainy day that most likely will never come, when they could be REAL CAPITALISTS and inject that influx resources back into the game and other players. This is also another sub-tangent of risk aversion. Why do people stockpile resources like doomsday preppers? How can we change this mentality? (I am looking at you, MAX UE characters)