Combat Medic Archive

The dev team would never allow any kind of imbalance so that one group of people would "cut swaths" through crowds of people.

Thunderheart - 6/17/04

The issue is that many of these posts are trolling. Things like "I can't believe that devs think combat medics are balanced, they really need a nerf!!!" Furthermore, comments, both critical and praising, of post combat revamp issues is premature speculation at best, and vicious rumor mongering at worst. Nothing is wrong with that, so long as people don't treat what they say as set in stone facts, or trying to convince others that they are.

"Creative feedback" is good. All too often though, this is just a euphemism for complaints about known issues, which have been talked about for the past 6 months (which we *are* pestering devs about), and tired people are reporting them as trolling. Even if there is a good complaint, too often others will come in and start a flame-fest.

I for one like the current forums as they are now, as opposed to a few months ago when the first page of the forums had 5 threads with 50+ replies, all giving the exact same "nerf CM's, no don't, yes do" discussion. It might be a little quieter, but I personally think the posts have become more useful for the community.

I personally agree with the majority of locks-deletions the moderators do. But then again, it is entirely possible there are a ton of "good threads" which have been deleted which I never knew about...

often what starts as a flame thread, deteriorates into a good constructive thread.

amazing that people on opposite sides of the issues can often brainstorm a much better solution than our current devs

The dev team would never allow any kind of imbalance so that one group of people would "cut swaths" through crowds of people.

Thunderheart - 6/17/04

Yes, this is true. However, all things being equal, flaming tends to beget flaming, not constructive ideas (simply by human nature, it is easier to counter insult somebody who insults you, rather than accept what they have to say and move on). There are countless posts on the combat medic forum alone which started plausible and degenerated into flame fests. I have read maybe5 (at most) which acted the other way in my months here.

If nothing else, look at the GCW forum in regards to combat medics. We would prefer to not have our boards cluttered with that many negative threads in the hopes that something good will come of it. This is especially true because I think I have seenone new argument about combat medics posted in the last 3 months. It involved Halva, and notice the first few threads it was involved in were not locked or deleted...

I agree that something good can come of flame wars, but only when new information is posted. However, when the trolling posts which turn into flame wars are as scripted as the ones we tend to have are (*both* sides are scripted mind you, not just the "nerf CM" side), it is harder to accept this argument that something new will come of it. And it is (in my personal opinion) not really worth the increase in clutter and noise on the forums (some of it very mean too) in the hopes we get something useful, especially as most new ideas and complaints are started as their own threads rather than a nested result of another one.