04-22-2009, 03:20 AM
Yeah... What Belle said is largely true. I don't think there is ever a situation where we've notified members of an implementation that a large number of people didn't loudly protest it or take it to their own drawing boards in an attempt to recreate it into whatever image they may have used it on in their own previous RPG developments. The few times this hasn't happened, I think it was due to large amounts of salivation over how cool something was and we massively overlooked specific power imbalances due to already planning out how cool the abilities based on it would be. So this (sometimes) works out to be a good counterbalance.
In other words, getting overanalyzed for every single step we make can help just to make sure we cover a checklist of problematic material. Occasionally, we will agree that something is a problem, but we are in no way expected to answer and resolve every single problem that someone else might see (especially if its likely due to a misunderstanding of how it actually works) before launching it. When we do agree, it gives a bit more foundation to said complaint by having outside information that we may not have thought about ourselves.
In other words, getting overanalyzed for every single step we make can help just to make sure we cover a checklist of problematic material. Occasionally, we will agree that something is a problem, but we are in no way expected to answer and resolve every single problem that someone else might see (especially if its likely due to a misunderstanding of how it actually works) before launching it. When we do agree, it gives a bit more foundation to said complaint by having outside information that we may not have thought about ourselves.

