Kael
Deity
Welcome to the FfH forum. This is the home of the Fall from Heaven 2 beta. Feel free to hang out, post any ideas, recommendations or comments about the mod.
The design team and I spend a lot of time here, hours each week. You could argue that the time we spend reading and posting might be better spent actually working on the mod. What can't be argued is that FfH has been shaped dramatically by the community. This is, and always has been, run as an internet project where everyones ideas are considered and discussed. Im sure many wish we were more open, responded to more posts or included more ideas, but we try our best.
There is an old story about Sir Francis Galton (father of modern eugenics and cousin of charles darwin). Galton was an elitist in that he thought that the public was basically incapable of making intelligent decisions. But he was at a fair filled with common folk and noticed a game going on to guess the weight of an ox. A few of the people had some knowledge about how much an ox of that size would wiegh, but most had no idea. And the guesses varied widely. At the end of the day Galton gathered the just less than 800 guesses that were made during the day and averaged them out. Altogether they were closer to the true weight of the ox than any individual guess, whats more the average answer was only 1lb off of the true weight of the ox.
This experiement is carried out in college classrooms all over with jars of jelly beans, and the results are the same. The public is amazing good at making informed specific decisions. Better than any individual member, even the knowledgable ones. That logic has served us well on the FfH team and even though we may not react to individual recommendations ofr change, we do listen closely to the trends and try to make changes to drive close and closer to that optimal gameplay that we are all trying to hit.
Lastly, I would like to thank the design team for their amazing work. So many of FfH's best features weren't imagined, designed or implemented by me. A lot of work has come from the entire team, who have proven to be the best in their respective areas.
- Kael
The design team and I spend a lot of time here, hours each week. You could argue that the time we spend reading and posting might be better spent actually working on the mod. What can't be argued is that FfH has been shaped dramatically by the community. This is, and always has been, run as an internet project where everyones ideas are considered and discussed. Im sure many wish we were more open, responded to more posts or included more ideas, but we try our best.
There is an old story about Sir Francis Galton (father of modern eugenics and cousin of charles darwin). Galton was an elitist in that he thought that the public was basically incapable of making intelligent decisions. But he was at a fair filled with common folk and noticed a game going on to guess the weight of an ox. A few of the people had some knowledge about how much an ox of that size would wiegh, but most had no idea. And the guesses varied widely. At the end of the day Galton gathered the just less than 800 guesses that were made during the day and averaged them out. Altogether they were closer to the true weight of the ox than any individual guess, whats more the average answer was only 1lb off of the true weight of the ox.
This experiement is carried out in college classrooms all over with jars of jelly beans, and the results are the same. The public is amazing good at making informed specific decisions. Better than any individual member, even the knowledgable ones. That logic has served us well on the FfH team and even though we may not react to individual recommendations ofr change, we do listen closely to the trends and try to make changes to drive close and closer to that optimal gameplay that we are all trying to hit.
Lastly, I would like to thank the design team for their amazing work. So many of FfH's best features weren't imagined, designed or implemented by me. A lot of work has come from the entire team, who have proven to be the best in their respective areas.
- Kael
was wondering the exact same thing, had i become part of the elite team 
