Just for the record, the meeting went for over 4 long hours..

In attendance:
SDE = Randy (GM)
TNF = Vick, tacoma, BBR, Alex (and i cant remember the other 2-3, sorry)

Thanks to all fleet leaders who participated and to those fleets who sent a proxy representative too.

I think everyone in attendance managed to get some information (some we knew, some we didn’t). Either way the meeting was beneficial and probably should be held every 6 months.

Meeting some of the other fleet leaders /key players on TNF Teamspeak was also a highlight.


Additional notes from the meeting - vick please update your post.

I was apparent that communication from SDE was severely lacking through GM > TNF > Player and was a concern for many fleet leaders.

Example: No GM or TNF knew what the XMAS event starting in 5days time would entail.

This has resulted in 0 (zero) advertising, promotion, word of mouth or hype to get players online prior to the event starting.

For those who do not know - Randy is NFNA's English speaking GM (game manager).
Currently he works mainly across the weekends from about 6-8pm > Midnight.
(Other Korean GMs cover weekdays.) - I hope i got these times right.

• I'm wondering if we should do a spotlight article on Randy for the community and perhaps on TNF members in general as well (vick I'll email you soon).

Randy and Vick have both agreed Communication is key to success and will endeavour to get info to the community through weekly updates.

Randy will work closer with SDE to initiate communication through to NFNA community.
Weekly updates will include a percentage % complete progress bar to give clear visibility to the community of how progress is going for items under development. As well as any interesting news like Events, TNF restructure, Amazon etc (keep reading).

For privacy reasons, Randy disclose the number of Devs employed on NFNA (NF1 in their eyes) but the number is greater than 1 and less than 10.
Devs are current priority is working on Win7 fix and Op-convoy
(Dont worry too much - Randy will provide updates during his weekly update to the community.)

Randy will have 1-2 accounts enabled for playing.. not just events/GM work.
This will allow Randy to spend time interacting with the community.


Other items of interest.
TESTING
Alexcaboose - Tier 1-3 rentals (at a minimum) will be released next week (13th) for SN,RM,MN - Thank to the players who spent the time to test. Tier 4-6 will follow shortly after.
SS/ASW will be the next main area under review and will need to happen at the same time.

TNF
TNF have had a restructure as part of the combined server merge (accessible via the dropdown on the NF website).
Vick has advised the structure appears to be working well and some tweaking may still be required.
Position information will be provided about what each TNF class is tasked to do.

Discussion was also held around TNF in regards to - The time they spend weekly, rewards, discipline etc.

NF General
Randy has advised that promotion & payment of NF through Amazon hopefully will occur soon and will provide more info in future.
2013 - Many items still on the list for development to keep the game going

The goal is to have the Fleet leader forums returned and up and running before New Year (some web development required).


Hacking/Exploit - This is will always be an ongoing item with investigations continuing to run. It is recommended the Player base assists with reporting suspicious activity via support ticket.
Possible return of the "Plane off border" warning that was used during NF fleet wars.

Tarrif sailor booster/base tools to also be included with Trainworld/ game guides when transfered to NF website.

TNF/GM recognises they do not spend as much time reviewing the suggestions area due to the large schedule of existing items to fix/develop/create (Vick does bundle up the suggestions and sends them to SDE/GMs).
Standardised moderation of forums will also be reviewed by TNF for a common approach.

Review / refresh (eg sprites) of existing 4 nations... there was some discussions about this but I cant remember the result.

NFNA content differs from the Base Korean code which does cause some issues/bugs and even some disagreements between NFNA and KR (this is good to know).

Some discussion around restored accounts.

 

On a side note: It was a disappointing that Randy disappeared from time to time but his input and attendance was welcomed.


Thanks again folks.
Looking forwards to seeing the items actioned Vick/Randy > SDE

Dallion
Fleet Leader - Armored Angels

You talked about all these things, but one of the main reasons people stop playing this game is from the excessive regular in game GB leveling crashing and lag. Ever gonna fix that?

Vick, Randy;

I'm sure you will understand, but from my end, i'll believe it when I see it. We just don't trust TNF/SDE nowadays. Now is your only opportunity to regain the trust that TNF/SDE should have.

I think there should be another meeting fairly soonish (ideally on teamspeak because of time restraints) so that we can keep on top of this.

While only being at the meeting at the end (Splid was there for the rest), we both feel there were plenty of unanswered questions, especially those which could have been pre-prepared. Could the agenda items be answered and put in its own thread?

Also, any news on a future meeting, and the actions from the meeting?

I am already discussing the next date for the meeting with vic lookat at late Jan.

-Vk

I am already discussing the next date for the meeting with vic lookat at late Jan.

-Vk

I am already discussing the next date for the meeting with vic lookat at late Jan.

-Vk

Bit pointless in reality as we have yet to see any progress from the last meeting, lets stick to the point of getting information and improvements we requested at the previous meeting.  Afterall Im sure we all have better things to do than sitting through another agenda led meeting where the people who should know cant give any answers or updates.