Hey guys,

Running a bit late here, but here's a list of promised answers to some of your most pressing concerns. A big thanks are in order to Vick11 for helping to organize your feedback. The answers provided are from our team in Korea.

I'll go ahead and leave this open for adding more questions or expanding the answers as necessary. So, have at it, and let us know what you think in the comments!

-Randy aka MK2 
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Issue 1: New HA - Devildog8, 3 Feb 12, Fleet Leader Forum:

When is the New HA coming out?

Answer 1: Tentatively scheduled to launch later this year. However, this may change (for the better) based on the developer's workload. Currently devs are working on the Windows
7 performance improvements along with lag and crash issues. Once they finish tackling those matters the HA patch will be moved to primary priority.
The new HA will be incorporated into the website where useful information would be able to be displayed. Additional benefits would be provided for occupying fleets among numerous other improvements aimed to increase participation and enjoyment. We will

provide more updates as progress continues.

Issue 2: Facebook and Twitter – Ljsevern, 1 Feb 12, Fleet Leader Forum:

Can someone run the Facebook and Twitter pages?

Answer 2:  The Community Manager will review the current status of these accounts and

work on improving the use of both pages. Fleet Leaders will be contacted for input.

Issue 3: Events, Events, Events

Answer 3: A player event team has been suggested to help out with events. For the time being however, we will rely on the TNF Event Team for assistance with running smaller events throughout the week. Discussions concerning the possibility for non-TNF event teams are still open.

Issue 4: Ship Design Competition – Ljsevern, Fleet Leader Forum, 2 Feb:

Could we hold a ship design competition of some form and then implement it?

Answer 4: This is a very good idea. As luck would have it, we recently hired an NF graphic designer who would be able to help pick out some good ship images from the player side. We will work on setting this into motion for use in the near future.

Issue 5: Elected Player Council – Splid, Fleet Leader Forum, 2 Feb:

Can there be an elected player council that has direct access to the GMs/SDE?

Answer 5: The Fleet Leaders and their representatives are considered to be the Nayfield form of a player council and they can interact in a more focused manner through the Community GM or Head Moderator using the Fleet Leader area of the main forums as the primary tool.

Issue 6: Additional points for new accounts – mako89, Main Forums:

"Having spoken and helped several new players in the past few months, I found all of them to be frustrated right away at the initial crew they were given. The BO and armaments are fine but most leveled the AA to find it was pretty much useless as well as some of the supports. After learning of this, they rolled new sailors but some found the lack of points prevented them from classing on time. An extreme example: if they went CV first, special forces is 17K, rookie 35K. Not everyone has friends offering them a few extra points at the start so they can keep up nor should they need to."

Answer 6: We feel that it would be a good idea to increase the amount of points at account start as it can be a source of frustration for new players. Careful work will need to be done to consider all aspects of such changes to prevent possible abuses. This will be discussed amongst the GMs and devs in order to find the best way to increase the starting points for newbies.

Issue 7: Extra Experience – various

Used far too often as a bandage or as an excuse for event that does not require effort from SDE/TNF.  Actually too much experience around already.

Answer 7: Agreed. We will be considering the Player Event Team option.

Issue 8: Wiki – Ljsevern, Main Forums 2 Feb 12

A website based wiki for the guides with player contributions – SDE sponsored and available in multiple languages?

Answer 8: Will be discussed in order to determine a method to implement on our site first. This is a very good idea.

Issue 9: Boost Room Types on Rotation – Ljsevern, Main Forums 2 Feb 12

Do some more of the rotational boosts around room types to encourage variety of play.


Answer 9: We will certainly provide more of this sort of event in order to encourage players to enjoy the different room types.

Issue 10:  Disband and reform TeamNF – myg0t1, Main Forum, 4 Feb 12

The disbandment and reformation of a new TNF, competent, fluid, and sober in the games rules that are paid employees of SDE and who do not have any interest passion or vendettas within the games playability.

Answer 10: There is no resource available to recruit and formally pay members of TeamNF as SDE employees, so we do rely on volunteers in this area.  There is a robust complaints procedure in place though if you feel you are not being treated appropriately and you are more than welcome to address concerns through that system.  

Issue 11: Reform ONF – myg0t1, Main Forum, 4 Feb 12

Reform ONFs original team(if any of them are still around), and let them fix the games balance issues, while also allowing them to update the community in a fashion that is similar to WoW.