[Tutorial] Constructing a good suggestion

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This is no official guide, just my thoughts on how to write a good suggestion. Keeping these in mind and roughly following the outline should lead to a readable, understandable and useful suggestion. This could be used for the RenX website, servers mutators or just the game in general.

When developing anything, whether it be a game, application or website, there are always going to be suggestions -- feature requests, changes and replacement requests. These are welcomed and sought after by development teams. However, not all suggestions are the same. A good suggestion consists of three main things (usually).

 

1. The issue that needs to be solved

When posting a suggestion, the issue that you want fixed should be straightforward and explicit. Everything else in your suggestion should be based around this. This is the main idea, or topic of the suggestion. Each addition, removal or change you suggest should have direct correlation to the issue.

 

2. How the issue negatively impacts the game

Why do you think that the issue is detrimental to the game? How does the issue negatively impact game play or ruin matches. (E.G. anti tank unit beats anti-inf unit) Give a few points and in-game examples. In some situations, this should be accompanied by examples of how something is broken, video or screenshot.

 

3. Proposed solution

Arguably the most important part of a suggestion, is the proposed solution -- how should we fix the problem? How does your suggestion directly fix the problem, and why would it be better than others? There are a wide variety of opinions on issues, and we'd love to hear them all. 

 

TL;DR: When suggesting something, make sure the issue is known, how the issue negatively impacts the game and how to fix it.