[Famine]

Greetings,

As some of you have noticed, I had started a discussion on the US community forums about class leads. Tarib noted to me that a lot of users wanted to know if this also applies to the EU community. So I wanted to let you all know that it does. Please read over my initial post and please provide any feedback on it. We will aim for the same things for both EU and US (will follow up with other languages as well)

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I wanted to start a discussion on some type of class lead program for the community. As we progress through the coming months, we will need as much feedback from the community as possible. So that means we might need a group of volunteers to help be the voices of the community in regards to classes.

The idea is pretty straight forward and it's a program we have done before with previous games. However, the introduction is not something we just want to toss out there without feedback from the community first. So I will try to sum up on the initial program structure for community input on each aspect.

The composition, recruitment and activity are the main topics that require feedback from the community. The feedback you provide will help shape this program into something everyone wants. So please be constructive and hopefully we can have another feedback channel from the player to the developer.


Composition

The class lead program will consist of 24 community volunteer representatives assigned in pairs to each class in Age of Conan.

Activity

The class leads will have two separate lists for their class.

1. Top ten list composed of the main concerns and wishes of the class.
2. Bugs affecting the class.

Recruitment

The process of appointing a class lead would take around 2 weeks to accomplish. The choices of those class leads will be made by Funcom.


Thank you,

[Yuudai]

This is good news. Hope you get it up going and that we can help out.

[Gretain]

At last a voice good luck with the project ,but at this moment I need action not words what time scale you talking about plz

My apologies have reread two weeks seems a fair time

[Acidbaron]

This is good news, i'll try to take some time to go over how the anarchyonline program worked and where it can be improved in my opinion.

Is there a date set already when the recruitment will start?

[Kakeka]

This is very good news! I just hope you manage to pick the right people that will do their jobs..!

[Articate]

I wonder how the process of appointing these people is.

[Thintalle]

How will the Class-Leads communicate with the Devs?

If you appoint additional Class-Leads for the US, EU, FR, DE, etc, won't that be unncessarily complicated? How will you make sure you can stay in exchange with 120+ representatives (speaking different languages obviously) without making them feel negleted/ignored?

Or do the Class-Leads more act like moderators, collect feedback and post a thread on "their" class-forum and that's pretty much it?

[Acidbaron]

An additional request, let them have moderator rights on their class sections.

To instantly deal with trolling.

In worst case let them mail or contact a moderator who then after the action was taken decide if it was a correct action or not.

[Wallis]

Can I ask how Funcom will be choosing?

[dronin87]

good to hear FC, its nice to see they are taking the community seriously!

it sucks its so few people and its going to be quite odd, however at least the community will have a voice and hopefully FC will pick the right people for the job and we can really work towards class balance.

People chosen need to admit the things that maybe the class is too good at aswel as the things the class struggles with.... no easy task :S