here i will be offering an overview of 3 candidate for the position of player councillor, and i hope you find my comments interesting, entertaining, and maybe even useful.
but before we begin, lets just get some things out of the way.
as incredible as it sounds, i am trying to be as unBiassed (ha-ha) as possible here. yes, we all know i support tokyto in this election, but i have reasons for it, and honestly that's not relevant here. It might be interesting to know that at one point i considered switching all my support to giebmasse and even ask tokyto to abandon the race so we can ensure giebs victory more easily. surprise?
well thats just how we work around here i guess.anyway, lets begin. our candidates that i will be looking at:
[e]Tokyto
[JEW]Giebmasse
[BAW?]Biass
these guys share a bunch of stuff in common, and actually, either one of them would make for a nice PC. really. however, since we are a pedantic bunch, we obviously are seeking the best and maybe this is what we will find.
first lets start with Tokyto:
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sigh. yes he is in empire clan, yes im supporting him, but that doesn't mean he gets away unscathed.
lets go through his promises point by point and judge all of them:
so in general he goes through the pledge and says how he will adress each responsibility. nothing special there.
1) Organizing event schedule
here he says he is td and knows whats up. he has hosted like 50 different tournaments, so i guess i believe him there.
uh oh. promises of changes to the client? well we know how thats gonna end. not tricking me bro. seriously though, if you promise to get something improved like that, you better have a plan to do it. more on that later (all the candidates make tons of bs promises like that, you will see plenty)
ok this i know about. its gonna be run similarly to the empire ladder week, and we already know how thats gonna go down. perfectly feasible. sucessful? maybe. it depends on what prizes we will be able to through about and spefic details. but yeah, my approval of this one.
2) Organizing tournament directors
relatively straightforward part, just making people listen to you, no problem there, being pc does actually have benefits you know.
everything else he says is perfectly feasible. in fact he is somewhat playing that role already, him and fred are hosting a ton of tourneys between each other. really the only hiccup in this section is that tourney tab promise.
3) Gather feedback from the community about top desires and problems +
5) Organize player surveys
interesting. he lists these 2 together. it makes sense i guess. lets see what he has to say about it.
yep, super easy, i could make one right now on whats new if i wanted to. no problem with that at all. only thing is that its totally obvious that this is a thing, not really going beyond my expectations here.
4) Stay in touch with the community as much as possible on general issues
again, totally obvious and expected stuff here, no surprises. yes, he is active, yes, he is in touch, whatever i guess. xD
and now onto the slightly more interesting stuff where we see what he does that's above his responsibilities.
A) Development (patches, connection issues, bugs reporting, Downlords client, new features)
ok so this isnt client code necessarily but 2 things need to be mentioned. 1. you are not the game councillor boy, not even the balance councillor 2. we actually have this kinda in place already, but devs are a bit cranky on this imo, so its not working that well. but yeah, nice try at impressing us <3
i like this. i really do. in fact this is one of those things that's feasible and fits role of PC and actually helps. in short - hes promising to shout at IceDreamer to stop being a d*** and disregard mod support like he currently does, the response being "if they want it to work in their mod they can write the code"
perfect promise, if only his others were like that.
hahahahahaha
no respect here. this is like a money grab attempt where he says oh yeah i will make cereal rain from the sky and fix your connection issues. do you know how to code? well if so theres an ICE-adapter in works atm (which, WHO would have thought is top priority) that will fix a bunch of issues. might as well not list this here.
yeah no. same as above. but not actually that bad. here he can use is magical PC powers to ask people to test more, but i dunno if that would last for more than a couple of weeks. (based on past experience, 3 weeks later only one guy left) however, having said that even that is of benefit, so actually this is not solvable, but you can help it with pretty minimal effort.
bonus points for being in the e clan abuse hunting team i guess xD
but yeah, certainly true. if he reports bugs that would be great.
yeah sure why not. no real opinion here or comment either way. downlords client is being developed, official faf one is pretty dead. not that much more to say here.
here we go. 1. thats ironic given he made a few
2. totally agree though, atm its actually had some work done on it but things like website come first, and other things are being prioritised over that.
3. theres kinda a strange thing here - people think you can just prioritize things like that. to some extent yes, but faf devs are people who do what they want. if i want to work on balance, i will, i dont even know how the client works, outside of themes. saying i have to work on client will not get me to do so.
however its not totally futile, if you poke people enough we do get things done.
B) Balance
same as my point about surveys. ABSURDLY easy. im kinda interested why balance cancerlor hasnt had enough time to make any yet.
ahahahaha i guess toky just secured my vote
but seriously, i have a lot of things to say on this topic, but not here xD
C) New Players, Vacant Councilors
hope all you want. heres some 2 year old issues that no one ever bothered to look at:
being sexy may not be enough to convince them:
https://github.com/FAForever/client/issues/18
https://github.com/FAForever/client/issues/19
https://github.com/FAForever/client/issues/20
/55 "Nice Try"
again, totally obvious, but its nice to know that he cares. its kinda silly we wait 24 months for things to happen like that.
hit top achievement is being master of rating decay. goddamn.
of course, there are other things to look at as well:
1. he is in empire clan. now, seriously, before everyone and their dog goes "but e power trip" i think its worth mentioning that the reason we have so much power is that we earned it, by contributing. xD if anything Tokyto is super experienced already at being PC because hes already done a shitton of PC things. and hes in a place where he has competent advisors on tap all the time. i dont know if the same can be said for the other candidates.
2. pretty nice and funny guy, not a retard (ha-ha) kinda approachable i guess. nice qualities for PC to have.
3. has free time to do this stuff, and had it for ages so i think he will have it in the future to come. this is very important. so he doesnt suddenly have 25 hour work days.
TLDR:
vote tokyto xD
he makes a couple of standart empty promises, but overall i think hes a solid choice because i have seen him contribute in the past and it should be obvious he is capable.
also he works with a team, and that concept is normal to him, so he should be able to easily organize an army of contributors to get things rolling.
lets go through his promises point by point and judge all of them:
so in general he goes through the pledge and says how he will adress each responsibility. nothing special there.
1) Organizing event schedule
here he says he is td and knows whats up. he has hosted like 50 different tournaments, so i guess i believe him there.
better system for advertising tournaments inside the client.
uh oh. promises of changes to the client? well we know how thats gonna end. not tricking me bro. seriously though, if you promise to get something improved like that, you better have a plan to do it. more on that later (all the candidates make tons of bs promises like that, you will see plenty)
Clan League.
ok this i know about. its gonna be run similarly to the empire ladder week, and we already know how thats gonna go down. perfectly feasible. sucessful? maybe. it depends on what prizes we will be able to through about and spefic details. but yeah, my approval of this one.
2) Organizing tournament directors
relatively straightforward part, just making people listen to you, no problem there, being pc does actually have benefits you know.
oh dear. another promise needing client code. yeah good luck with that, im sure i saw an issue on that somewhere.... oh yeah i remember actually working on this with someone, until that project died over a year ago. i still have the leftovers in my github. so thats got a bright future doesn't it? at least Tokyto goes on to mention that its a futile endeavor.that with a more integration (Tournament Tab)
everything else he says is perfectly feasible. in fact he is somewhat playing that role already, him and fred are hosting a ton of tourneys between each other. really the only hiccup in this section is that tourney tab promise.
3) Gather feedback from the community about top desires and problems +
5) Organize player surveys
interesting. he lists these 2 together. it makes sense i guess. lets see what he has to say about it.
every 3 months there will be a large survey about server stability, in-game balance and possibly more. Also more irregular, smaller surveys that would focus on specific issues.
yep, super easy, i could make one right now on whats new if i wanted to. no problem with that at all. only thing is that its totally obvious that this is a thing, not really going beyond my expectations here.
4) Stay in touch with the community as much as possible on general issues
again, totally obvious and expected stuff here, no surprises. yes, he is active, yes, he is in touch, whatever i guess. xD
and now onto the slightly more interesting stuff where we see what he does that's above his responsibilities.
A) Development (patches, connection issues, bugs reporting, Downlords client, new features)
One of the most important feature I would like to implement would be reversing old patches.
ok so this isnt client code necessarily but 2 things need to be mentioned. 1. you are not the game councillor boy, not even the balance councillor 2. we actually have this kinda in place already, but devs are a bit cranky on this imo, so its not working that well. but yeah, nice try at impressing us <3
support mods and maps
i like this. i really do. in fact this is one of those things that's feasible and fits role of PC and actually helps. in short - hes promising to shout at IceDreamer to stop being a d*** and disregard mod support like he currently does, the response being "if they want it to work in their mod they can write the code"
perfect promise, if only his others were like that.
highest priority for FAF should always be connection.
hahahahahaha
no respect here. this is like a money grab attempt where he says oh yeah i will make cereal rain from the sky and fix your connection issues. do you know how to code? well if so theres an ICE-adapter in works atm (which, WHO would have thought is top priority) that will fix a bunch of issues. might as well not list this here.
Ingame bugs should be caught by balance team and beta-patch testing. But if they are not, they should be easy to report.
yeah no. same as above. but not actually that bad. here he can use is magical PC powers to ask people to test more, but i dunno if that would last for more than a couple of weeks. (based on past experience, 3 weeks later only one guy left) however, having said that even that is of benefit, so actually this is not solvable, but you can help it with pretty minimal effort.
Also I’m aware of most of the ingame bugs myself, since I play a lot of FA.
bonus points for being in the e clan abuse hunting team i guess xD
but yeah, certainly true. if he reports bugs that would be great.
promote Downlords client more
yeah sure why not. no real opinion here or comment either way. downlords client is being developed, official faf one is pretty dead. not that much more to say here.
Regarding new features, I think the old ones need to be fixed first. Lot of people want Galactic War back, but i’m pretty sceptical about it for now. First we need fixed Map Vault, Mod Vault and then there should be time to make GW again and empty promises aren’t going to bring it back either.
here we go. 1. thats ironic given he made a few
2. totally agree though, atm its actually had some work done on it but things like website come first, and other things are being prioritised over that.
3. theres kinda a strange thing here - people think you can just prioritize things like that. to some extent yes, but faf devs are people who do what they want. if i want to work on balance, i will, i dont even know how the client works, outside of themes. saying i have to work on client will not get me to do so.
however its not totally futile, if you poke people enough we do get things done.
B) Balance
Balance of FA itself is not the agenda of Player Councilor, yet gathering feedback about it is.
same as my point about surveys. ABSURDLY easy. im kinda interested why balance cancerlor hasnt had enough time to make any yet.
Also there has been a movement for Blackheart to be a balance councilor and part of listening to community is also doing something about it. Things should move forward here and a poll about balance needs to be done as soon as possible.
ahahahaha i guess toky just secured my vote
but seriously, i have a lot of things to say on this topic, but not here xD
C) New Players, Vacant Councilors
New players in FAF need a better approach. Tutorial Tab links needs to be fixed as a start and hopefully we will find enough development time to integrate some ‘new players’ tutorial feature.
hope all you want. heres some 2 year old issues that no one ever bothered to look at:
being sexy may not be enough to convince them:
https://github.com/FAForever/client/issues/18
https://github.com/FAForever/client/issues/19
https://github.com/FAForever/client/issues/20
/55 "Nice Try"
Filling Promotion councilor, Mod & Map Councilor, Game Councilor positions should start right after Player Councilor vote, although not the agenda of Player Councilor, so all i could do is encourage Visionik to try and fill them faster.
again, totally obvious, but its nice to know that he cares. its kinda silly we wait 24 months for things to happen like that.
Lastly I would like to talk about my achievements and actions in FAF.
hit top achievement is being master of rating decay. goddamn.
of course, there are other things to look at as well:
1. he is in empire clan. now, seriously, before everyone and their dog goes "but e power trip" i think its worth mentioning that the reason we have so much power is that we earned it, by contributing. xD if anything Tokyto is super experienced already at being PC because hes already done a shitton of PC things. and hes in a place where he has competent advisors on tap all the time. i dont know if the same can be said for the other candidates.
2. pretty nice and funny guy, not a retard (ha-ha) kinda approachable i guess. nice qualities for PC to have.
3. has free time to do this stuff, and had it for ages so i think he will have it in the future to come. this is very important. so he doesnt suddenly have 25 hour work days.
TLDR:
vote tokyto xD
he makes a couple of standart empty promises, but overall i think hes a solid choice because i have seen him contribute in the past and it should be obvious he is capable.
also he works with a team, and that concept is normal to him, so he should be able to easily organize an army of contributors to get things rolling.
if you thought that was harsh, lets see me get to the others, i will write the next candidates out when i have time. prepare yourselves : D
