Surprisingly Still in Consideration

[ShaneHed13]

I’ve been on the forums for some time now and there are a lot of ideas that get brought up, and people say they are ruled out when in fact they are not, then there are ideas that get brought up a painful amount of times that are in fact ruled out. It has been a while since I read the stickies, but I went through there and found some very curious things that are in consideration currently that I have seen claimed in many a post are ruled out. Thought it was interesting.

Surprisingly In Consideration

* Dueling/challenge/simulator/sparring battle area
* Clan villages = all clan members contribute, leaders control
* Way to designate sister/feeder/associated clans to link clan chat in a separate tab
* History button on clan app - see stats: Last x clans, time in, donations given/received, kicked/left, etc
* Award resource bonuses for successful defense in addition to successful attack
* Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed
* Add a boost option for builders (work at 4x speed for X number of hours)
* Keep troops that survive a battle

People have been saying that dueling/simulators are ruled out due to the possibility to be exploited, they are apparently wrong.

I have heard of people wanting to label clan hoppers, although it isn't the exact same, a history of last X clans, time in and donations is something I bet you all would find promising.

Defensive bonuses has been a huge topic, currently in consideration

Tesla absorbing lightning for you anti zappers (they also mention lightning rod is in consideration so)

Keep troops, that just surprised me big time.

[rwelshjr]

I’ve been on the forums for some time now and there are a lot of ideas that get brought up, and people say they are ruled out when in fact they are not, then there are ideas that get brought up a painful amount of times that are in fact ruled out. It has been a while since I read the stickies, but I went through there and found some very curious things that are in consideration currently that I have seen claimed in many a post are ruled out. Thought it was interesting.

Surprisingly In Consideration

* Dueling/challenge/simulator/sparring battle area
* Clan villages = all clan members contribute, leaders control
* Way to designate sister/feeder/associated clans to link clan chat in a separate tab
* History button on clan app - see stats: Last x clans, time in, donations given/received, kicked/left, etc
* Award resource bonuses for successful defense in addition to successful attack
* Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed
* Add a boost option for builders (work at 4x speed for X number of hours)
* Keep troops that survive a battle

People have been saying that dueling/simulators are ruled out due to the possibility to be exploited, they are apparently wrong.

I have heard of people wanting to label clan hoppers, although it isn't the exact same, a history of last X clans, time in and donations is something I bet you all would find promising.

Defensive bonuses has been a huge topic, currently in consideration

Tesla absorbing lightning for you anti zappers (they also mention lightning rod is in consideration so)

Keep troops, that just surprised me big time.

A lot of those we have seen them since weigh in on emails that they are not doing. So while they may be on the 'under consideration' section we are aware that the consideration was to not do them.

That list is in fact getting kind of old. Some of those 'under considerations' are ruled out on the books at SC we know because they told us. But also since the list is so old I can't swear by it any more so even ruled out ideas if I don't know the reason for them to be ruled out I am willing to discuss. (If I know the reason then I do know for sure it is still ruled out) In those cases if someone else knows its great if they pipe in because that educates us all.

For some of them I do have the mails or the explanation we were given saved and I often add those to the threads. In those cases I don't say 'ruled out' but I do say that its not going to happen and [paste the reason for them.

Lightning rods they don't plan to do. (nor tesla absorbing lightning') and I have seen them give their reason why they decided its better for the game as a whole to leave DE zapping in there as part of the game.

Anti hopper stats they have been clear they are not going to post negative stats. And that looks like they are talking about storing history on clans, not players. So I do think that remains ruled out until if they ever backed off on the 'no negative stats' policy.

So the sticky cops are not quite as wrong as implied here. My beef with them is that I think a lot of the relish the role a little too much and those guys are hurting the forum more than helping it.

So there is nothing wrong with saying it, but all of these types should probably tone it down...

1. Guys that find the meanest way possible to say it (EX - Read the stickies you moron')
2. Guys that do any sort of personal name calling. (Saying the idea is stupid is ok, but not calling the OP stupid)
3. Guys that use any sort of big dramatic graphic they keep on hand so to say it with a loud bang.
4. Guys that use bug fonts or any other trick to say it with a loud bang. (You are shooting down a guys idea, this is not the time to try and impress people)
5. Everybody that says it after the first guy. (I have literally seen 2 pages of comments saying nothing more than 'Ruled out' and/or "read the stickies")
6. Anyone that would necro a thread that has not been commented on for over a month just to say it is ruled out. (You know who you are)
7. Guys that have 3K posts but have rarely if ever said anything Other than 'Ruled out' and/or "read the stickies" in a post.

A rule of thumb I wish more would follow - Never say ruled out without giving a little explanation as to why. And if you aren't able to say why, don't comment at all regardless of if its on the sticky or not.