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New ALife simulator
Numsgil:
A note, alot matters in how you phrase a suggestion.
"This should be the way of things" is a very strong case, and difficult to convince many people of.
"It would be useful if you could do this" is more likely to garner support, since users who don't want to use it can just turn it off.
Even if the effect of the two are identical, you're going to get better responses with the second. It's just something I've observed.
Greven:
Cant really see how that came into the discussion!??
In my suggestion there were no "this is how it should be".
Whatever it doesnt matter.
shvarz:
Well, it would be very useful to get rid of Big Berthas, random killing (or a set limit to lifespan) would be an easy solution to that problem.
I mostly changed my mind when I tried to evolve veggies without any predators - they simply have no need to divide - eventually they just get tons of energy, reach population limit and sit there.
That's my two cents.
Numsgil:
Greven, keep in mind I offer this critique/observation only in the spirit of helping all users understand how the community thinks and reacts as a whole. I mean no one any sort of harsh criticism by it (I know tone is difficult to convey by text).
Your post was phrased such that it sounded, to me at least, like a universal feature request instead of a "would be useful" option.
Universal feature requests are much more difficult to get people to agree to. Which may be why you got limited response from it (I don't remember why I never responded. Interesting...)
It is quite arbitrary and somewhat silly, but if you're careful in how you phrase a suggestion with broad implications, you can recieve entirely different feedback.
Generally "we should have this tool..." is the most successful suggestions format.
Greven:
Making the a art out of writing to other humans.... hmmmm ;)
Okay, but it was still just a simple suggestion, I think you put to much into write to each other.
Every person on the board dont know the intention of others members posts (like Bots is really hard to read and understand proper, because he writes what just pop into his mind, and not careful trying to translate a thought/idea to text), therefore there is no such thing as the 2 possible interactions / deciphering of a post as you state. If people disagree they are much more likely to post it, than if they are indifferent or agree with it. Maybe you a like that Num, all respect to you, but all people are different.
A lot of topics die out, and if more interesting topic popup, people (or maybe now I generalize) tend to move and respond to the newer topics...
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