Since the developers asked us to share our wishes and ideas for future innovations on the forum, many cool topics have been created here.
But I feel that things are getting out of hand, certainly on the part of some individuals. Currently, a new thread is being created for every aircraft ever built, every airport, no matter how small, and every livery ever released. Please remain realistic and consider what would be beneficial for the game and what the developers should devote their valuable time to.
What good is a tiny airport that can only accommodate business jets? What real benefit is there in wanting EVERY conceivable airport here? What added value would that bring to WOA?
Why are all kinds of business jets and small Cessnas being posted here?
It’s currently very frustrating when you look at the forum and see that 10 new topics have been created every few hours about nonsense.
So here’s my request:
Think strategically about which airport would make sense in terms of location (what are we supposed to do with London City???), size, and number of gates (not every airport has to be as big as LHR, but it shouldn’t be smaller than SXM either).
Think about which aircraft is REALLY missing in relation to WOA. It’s no use to me if landing and taxiing take three times as long as handling. The developers are planning a new feature with bizjets anyway, so just wait and see.
You can wish for a lot, but please don’t spam everything here.
Couldn’t agree more, for me it completely ruins the point if it’s just and AI spam post with the bare minimum info, at this point if I see its by that certain user I instantly click off. It being an AI post takes all appeal out of it for me as it’s not someone’s local airport or something they’ve spend a while researching, it’s just a bare minimum AI slop with no soul and basic info. The AI posts also take the opportunity for someone to make a real interesting post/case for the airport which is very damaging. I don’t care what some AI has to say about an airport, I care what a human has to say.
Call me crazy but the user making these AI posts should be stopped (silenced, given a warning, banned) as the account has done nothing other than spam AI slop topics (no replies or liking other posts).
I completely agree… you have highlighted the situation perfectly, especially the ai situation. I once logged on after waking up and woke up to 80 new topics… I never really look at new anymore because I know that it’s just gonna be feature requests,
Apart from that, there are some good recommendations like male, Beijing and Singapore changi
As one of the folks who have to deal with these suggestions, I get to see the entire lot of them and there’s a lot that don’t make it on. When you have to read through every single one, add tags to it, change the titles of them to fit the template, it’s quite a task when there’s so many posts to get through some days and I’ll happily admit I sometimes don’t notice somethings until it’s too late. The current system is quite a bit to handle, especially on the subject of duplicates where there’s that many requests.
I do intend on acting on this, I’m just seeing what goes on from here. After having a rejected suggestion for the A330 (I know), I’m definitely going to act, but I’m just debating what to do. I have seen everyone’s concerns don’t worry, and I’m trying to be a bit more selective now with some of these suggestion posts.
What I can say though, and politely ask people to consider here:
Please check what has and hasn’t already been suggested before posting.
The templates are followed (this is something I’ve noticed people aren’t doing recently).
Lastly, the most important one, if there’s a post which has slipped through, please do flag it so I can take another look at it. It’s easy to miss stuff when there’s so much to look through.
That just shows they’ve never played the game, the way I see it is that an account that suggests that should be muted for banned from suggestions or something because that’s just blatant evidence it’s a fake
Silenced for 2 weeks at least, sorry I haven’t done anything earlier folks. Posts like this are immensely useful as I can see what people are thinking so I can act with the greater communities interests.
I’ll see what happens when the silence ends, if the posts continue or not. Genuine suggestions are welcome, but stuff which has characteristics of being mostly written by AI, or is for something very obviously in game isn’t going to go very far from now. If you see something you think looks suspicious please do flag it so I can see to it, like I said, it’s likely I can miss something out sometimes.
Any chance you could get rid of their other posts or give others edit access to them. Well I won’t vote for their AI posts I would gladly help rewrite airports I am interested in and give them better info. I’m sure other people would assist with this process aswell
In that case perhaps if people put out revised/better versions of the suggestions in the comment of the post it can be updated to that? Id be interested in rewriting Papeete and Macaus posts.
I have to agree with your general idea that the suggestions threads are beyond the anticipation of all of us.
I don’t want to blame anyone though, but like what said when I was in discussion with some players previously:
I live in ADL and I never believe this airport could be in the game as it is very boring.
I only posted JED and GYD. JED is very interesting if you have a detailed look into that, and GYD has a very strategic location.
I earlier said I plan to work on another Chinese airport and I did found a very interesting one but there is so much info I have to process with and I only do this when I am not obsessed with my own business!
For airport posts, specifically, my idea is that: I don’t want anyone parallel my post style (very detailed with many images if you look for that in the airport section) but I encourage people do a detailed research on the airport before posting rather than just post the airport code and go away.
Think about few aspects:
Are they interesting enough? (For example some people told me many newer airports look like generated by AI in middle of nowhere, and you do want an airport to be interesting to play with)
Will there be bottleneck(s) when playing these airports? (Considering the game accelerates and is there enough stands for each cat, you never want to manually do a lot of jobs and just would like to enjoy it)
Do they have good locations? (Not too close to any playable airport as of now and has a good location to connect other places)
At least you should say a suggested airport match 1 of them to be suggested, but I generally try to find airports matching all the 3.
I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t mind pushing the pendulum in the other direction in terms of “new feature requests” that don’t follow the template.
I recall times in this forum where bug reports that don’t follow the template would be auto-closed by @carlsberg72 without more than a one sentence reply.. that sounds like a lot less work on you (and other mods) and could help avoid the proliferation of low effort posts..
Having filled out a few myself, I think the questions asked on the template do make you think before you push submit. It’s worth taking the time and doing it right.
I would also like to add, to keep in mind that this is still a mobile game and although some great strides have been made, it is still current with the game, that some devices are already struggling and certain nice to have features are heavy on frame rates and memory so we should keep that in mind when requesting some things