143059-suggestion-add-a-suggestions-sub-forum

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			General forum is too general.  :lol:	
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			It would be nice to have a single focused forum for suggestions.	
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No thanks. Most suggestions already apply to one of the existing subforums and the intent is that you put them in the right one. The teams involved in the different areas of the game look at their particular subsection first, and while they do look in General, obviously stuff is harder to find there.Basically, everyone should be using the subforums more, especially if your goal is to get seen by a dev. I know the instinct is to try and make a thread that gets tons of replies, but that's less important than posting where it's going to be seen by the people doing the work. 
 
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It would be nice to have a single focused forum for suggestions.
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No thanks. Most suggestions already apply to one of the existing subforums and the intent is that you put them in the right one. The teams involved in the different areas of the game look at their particular subsection first, and while they do look in General, obviously stuff is harder to find there.
 
Basically, everyone should be using the subforums more, especially if your goal is to get seen by a dev. I know the instinct is to try and make a thread that gets tons of replies, but that's less important than posting where it's going to be seen by the people doing the work.
 
 
 
That would depend on how you define focused. If I'm a Housing Dev, I don't want to sift through all the suggestions for Dungeons or PvP or Lore.
 
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No thanks. Most suggestions already apply to one of the existing subforums and the intent is that you put them in the right one. The teams involved in the different areas of the game look at their particular subsection first, and while they do look in General, obviously stuff is harder to find there.
 
Basically, everyone should be using the subforums more, especially if your goal is to get seen by a dev. I know the instinct is to try and make a thread that gets tons of replies, but that's less important than posting where it's going to be seen by the people doing the work.
 
 
 
That would depend on how you define focused. If I'm a Housing Dev, I don't want to sift through all the suggestions for Dungeons or PvP or Lore.
 
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Where would I put my Suggestion of making a suggestion sub-forum then?
Or how do I suggest something that has nothing to do with any of the current sub-forums? Like suggestions on how to help newer players.
 
I get what you mean, but I'm not convinced on how effective it is to have suggestions posted on every forums. This can cause some suggestions to get buried or be completely out of place. (Like in the bug report section)
I know several games use a suggestions sub-forum and it works well. It also makes it easier for the players by having a place to post their suggestions.
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Where would I put my Suggestion of making a suggestion sub-forum then?
Or how do I suggest something that has nothing to do with any of the current sub-forums? Like suggestions on how to help newer players.
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Things that apply to the forums belong here. Things that apply to helping players can go in either the Player Help areas, or here.
 
If your worry is about suggestions getting buried, that's FAR more likely to happen in a catch all bucket forum, than it would in those specific areas. Even if the traffic in every subforum doubled, a dev would only have to go through about 10-20 threads a day regarding their area of interest. As opposed to a bucket forum like this one where there can be 40-50 on a busy day.
 
Again, this is about getting a dev to see your idea, not other players. Debate and back and forth is nice, but isn't what is going to make a suggestion happen. Mainly though, I'm just repeating things I've heard devs and mods refer to in the past. 
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Things that apply to the forums belong here. Things that apply to helping players can go in either the Player Help areas, or here.
 
If your worry is about suggestions getting buried, that's FAR more likely to happen in a catch all bucket forum, than it would in those specific areas. Even if the traffic in every subforum doubled, a dev would only have to go through about 10-20 threads a day regarding their area of interest. As opposed to a bucket forum like this one where there can be 40-50 on a busy day.
 
Again, this is about getting a dev to see your idea, not other players. Debate and back and forth is nice, but isn't what is going to make a suggestion happen. Mainly though, I'm just repeating things I've heard devs and mods refer to in the past. 
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Suggestion forums are wonderful things, if managed properly.  See: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=270for an example of how to do it right. 
 
Letting things go into their various subforums has a few problems. 1, things that don't fit, and 2, having a central idea hub will collect personalities, encourage discussion, and be easier to manage.  Much better to collect all the feedback in one place.	
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 and be easier to manage. 
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