To a few of us here today this is a festive occasion, and yet in the history of Vox Populi, it is a commonplace occurrence for the Community Patch Project to be involved. We emphasized the Community part in the Project hoping that every user with a voice gets a say into the Project.
The business of our project goes forward. Vox Populi is confronted with a social affliction of great disproportions. We suffer from the flaws of a decentralized democratically-involved project. It distorts our balance decisions, penalizes modmods, and crushes the one we hurt the most: the silent userbase of our project who ask not much from us besides to let them keep playing as usual.
Decentralized systems are flexible with timing and the quality of the mods from these systems are usually higher than a centralized system. However, the flaw consists of a lack of communication and factional conflicts begin appearing within these systems.
We have tried to centralize the system of our entire modding sub-sections with a
centralized Modpack, a list of mods, and a Discord to keep in touch with our modders and developers, but of course, we do not grab everybody and not enough users use these links.
But great as our democratic system is, it has not exercised moderation. For months we have piled complaints upon complaints, mortgaging our balance and the future balance for the sake of change. Is this for the better or worse? We grant everybody a voice so each individual can voice their opinion, but a few have overreached their power.
You and I, as individuals, can, by suggesting and arguing, tip the game's balance beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. There will be a point that collectively, as a project, the project might stagnate on any future development. Let there be no misunderstanding that the project might halt development in the near future, but users need to consider that too much experimentation is bad for the health of this project.
The penalty that modmods suffer has come upon us over several months. They will not go away in days or weeks and this depends on whenever or not the modmods are updated on a basis if at all. We must be wary of radical changes to the base mod for this hurts modmods more in the long-term. Modmods have been built in the spirit of this project and has helped the project become more successful. Let us not tamper with this progress.
We hear very little of the silent user group, but they are many compared to those who voice themselves. Our concerns must be for this group that have been too long neglected. It knows no way to voice itself or address balance. It is made up of loyal users who have stuck with Vox Populi for years for the modmods they enjoy or for the increases of enjoyment from the mod itself. We offer our gratitude for such loyalty and we should not neglect them nor alienate them any further with more radical changes especially when these changes are late into the development of the project.
After all, I must ask the community to advocate for smaller changes and not more radical changes because change for the sake of change is not a viable operation for this project to endure. I'd like to thank everybody for reading.
Previous Year's State of the Mod
The business of our project goes forward. Vox Populi is confronted with a social affliction of great disproportions. We suffer from the flaws of a decentralized democratically-involved project. It distorts our balance decisions, penalizes modmods, and crushes the one we hurt the most: the silent userbase of our project who ask not much from us besides to let them keep playing as usual.
Decentralized systems are flexible with timing and the quality of the mods from these systems are usually higher than a centralized system. However, the flaw consists of a lack of communication and factional conflicts begin appearing within these systems.
We have tried to centralize the system of our entire modding sub-sections with a
centralized Modpack, a list of mods, and a Discord to keep in touch with our modders and developers, but of course, we do not grab everybody and not enough users use these links.
But great as our democratic system is, it has not exercised moderation. For months we have piled complaints upon complaints, mortgaging our balance and the future balance for the sake of change. Is this for the better or worse? We grant everybody a voice so each individual can voice their opinion, but a few have overreached their power.
You and I, as individuals, can, by suggesting and arguing, tip the game's balance beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. There will be a point that collectively, as a project, the project might stagnate on any future development. Let there be no misunderstanding that the project might halt development in the near future, but users need to consider that too much experimentation is bad for the health of this project.
The penalty that modmods suffer has come upon us over several months. They will not go away in days or weeks and this depends on whenever or not the modmods are updated on a basis if at all. We must be wary of radical changes to the base mod for this hurts modmods more in the long-term. Modmods have been built in the spirit of this project and has helped the project become more successful. Let us not tamper with this progress.
We hear very little of the silent user group, but they are many compared to those who voice themselves. Our concerns must be for this group that have been too long neglected. It knows no way to voice itself or address balance. It is made up of loyal users who have stuck with Vox Populi for years for the modmods they enjoy or for the increases of enjoyment from the mod itself. We offer our gratitude for such loyalty and we should not neglect them nor alienate them any further with more radical changes especially when these changes are late into the development of the project.
After all, I must ask the community to advocate for smaller changes and not more radical changes because change for the sake of change is not a viable operation for this project to endure. I'd like to thank everybody for reading.
Previous Year's State of the Mod
