SA/Development Roadmap?

[Pollux]

or maybe start paying devs and those who contribute under some type of employment to the community, then there'll be a roadmap perhaps

The whole staff consist of people who are friends lol, like they're gonna start demanding pay when they could easily get replaced at any moment by another person who doesn't want pay. Gotta keep the Soulripper boat afloat bro. Please donate all your paycheck to this server now.

It doesn't work like that for developers. Every dev just gets bored after some time. It happened with Pollux and I bet that's the case with Arny atm. They spend their free time developing for a server and get nothing in return.

I mean we do get stuff in return, I have learnt quite a bit from my time on FL and so has Arny. When I first got dev I was completely for being way more transparent for updates and having a roadmap, my views on this has changed over time though. The issue is as soon as an update has been announced publically or a date gets set, a lot of pressure is created. I think this shows quite a bit in the map thread, where people reacted quite poorly due to missed deadlines. While a roadmap and stuff would be a cool and all, I really don't think the community or developers could handle it. I kept setting myself deadlines and stuff for things I was making, it just creates so much unnecessary pressure and ends up in a mess.

I am however still completely for little "teasers" of upcoming updates only after they're far into their development cycle. I think hype can be very powerful if used correctly. I don't think dropping updates by "surprise" is a good for major updates at all, it feels like a bit of a waste.