What do you think about presenting the project status pagehttps://robertsspaceindustries.com/project-statusin a better way and show some love so that every backer also some that were away for 6 months or longer can see what is the current game status and what stuff is currently worked on for the next patch in 2 minutes?asked by HerrMatthias

Whew.

He was referring to a page that someone was using more like a scrum board. So, this is a really great question. This is something we struggle with all the time – we have a lot going on all the time and internally we have a lot to track, we have a lot to manage, we have a lot to keep on top of and to keep our developers and ourselves focused. To keep focused on getting out a product. So, we have our amazing community team down here that works really closely with us that just tries to pump as much information out as possible. So, going from the very high level – one word, this is the status of that – into a breakdown for each single one of those I think is a great idea and I think it would be something we'd love to do. I don't know if it's feasible in the short term but I definitely think it's something we'd love to do. Some way we can provide you guys a lot of information quickly so that if you do go away and are like, "I'll be back when you have more game done." and you come back and can see where we're at. I think it's a great idea. We've definitely looked at stuff like that, I just don't know if we're at that place yet.

I don't know how well it would help transparency either. I guess because so many features get pushed up and pushed back on a regular basis just even within the Arena Commander team – Calix could be working on one thing one moment and then because we have a deadline coming up he may have to shift focus on to something completely different. And unless you've got one of the Cloud Imperium guys or ladies constantly updating, "He's shifting focus because of this." Without that kind of context, it will look like we just stopped developing it and we don't want you guys to get the wrong impression that we've stopped working on something when that developer is simply just shifting focus on to something else for the moment.

Absolutely.

So, while we'd like to be able to give you those kinds of updates on a regular basis, we'd have to kind of unify on how we wanted to deliver that and how we would provide context on what's going on. I think that's a very challenging thing, especially with how open our development already is in the first place.

Totally, and going back to what Darian said about breaking new ground, right, we're doing new things. Some things that a lot of us didn't do at previous organizations and things we're even learning how to do with you guys. So, I think we're constantly learning along the road of... how can we be transparent and provide information but how can we get things done at the same time because that's two full-time jobs. Two full-time things we need to do. So, we're always looking for ways to do that. Great question and a great reference, thanks for referencing that link!