it's funny you mentioned Bannerlord. I was just looking at their forum. They actually have a thread made BY a dev that is a "Statement regarding plans for...'x feature'". They give a relatively detailed list of things they're working on and people are allowed to comment on it. Some are needlessly aggressive "IT'S BEEN 8 YEARS!!!" but most of the comments are relatively tame and polite, and I'm convinced that part of that is because the devs are actually responding to people in that very thread. Imagine if you could actually ask a dev "Hey, are there plans to have a more 5e based diffculty put into place?" and have a dev answer? Even if it was a non-committal "eh, we're thinking about it, but we need to get 'x' done first", i'm convinced people would really appreciate that level of contact.
look at some of these responses by the dev
"We are not currently plannıng such a feature."
"As bannermen noted, a few variables already tie into this albeit it is currently limited. We have discussed succession laws before and may still explore this aspect, but it is not part of our current priorities."
"Gang mechanics in the sense of owning alleys exist within the game for notables currently. If time permits, we may explore player owned alleys further."
"Mexxico knows these parts well, yes. (When I came to the company some 2 years ago, he explained the WarScore calculation to me )
While I am not too involved in the issues you are referencing, I would hardly call the AI as such. He has spent a fair bit of time on improving it already but in a world as open ended / dynamic as ours it can be challenging to achieve decision making that is always sensible. Not to mention that in some cases it's a matter of preference (aka the player feels like the AI should have made peace because they lost a number of battles, but the AI "knows" that the numbers are still in its favor). Which isn't to say that it cannot be improved."
these are all in response to actual players asking questions. it's not just PR talk either, you can tel they actually read the posts. They don't answer every post, or even post every day, but having some contact at all would help immensely in my opinion.
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