Edit: Tl;dr: 3 sections, ideas, plans, completed projects; voting system; votes divided between player, dev, and CSM; hot topics regarding how an idea or plan should be changed should be moved to top regardless of whether it's supported or hated; devs should be able to post special dev notes regarding things like an idea has been cleared to have a plan made or how the idea has technical implications.

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We all know that the Features and Ideas section of the forums is regarded a grave yard for good ideas, regardless of whether or not the ideas are acknowledged or used by CCP, mostly because we wouldn't know if they were used or not. Largely because we don't look in that forum to begin with unless we have an idea or because the few times we DO visit there are hardly any CCP posts.

What I'm thinking we need is an amendment system similar to the one we use on the state level here in America in the sense of there being refined explanations and implications for each change for us to better understand things that are more technical, and in the simple mechanic of voting.

What we need is an entirely new page for ideas and projects to be implemented to EVE. A page that should be fairly easily integrated into CCP's design style and provide great clarity and transparency to us players.

The concept is this: A page separated into 3 main sections, Ideas, Plans, and Completed Projects. Each section would display the top 5 topics on the main page with a link to view the full list of course.

As you might imagine, the Ideas section will be for players and devs alike to propose ideas to the game. The Plans section will be where CCP displays their plans for ideas already cleared to be implemented, and the Completed Projects will be for specific features that have been \carried through the idea, plan, implementation, process.

In the Ideas section there will be 3 divisions: Player ideas, Dev ideas, and CSM ideas. This way there should be a easy way to see what the players think, what the CSM thinks and how the devs think and give a rough categorization of what things each group think should be changed or fixed. Maybe the players want POSed fixed but the devs want to change corp hanger mechanics first and the CSM have something entirely different in mind.

Each of the ideas in the Ideas section should be able to be voted on, regardless of which party the idea came from, again with votes being divided between players, CSM and devs. The votes should include 3 options for each idea. For, Against, and Modified For. You should be able to vote for these ideas without having to post anything and work similarly to the forum like system. However, there still should be a comment section for feedback on the idea and for the people who vote "Modified For" to specify how they would change the idea to something they would be in more support of.

The Plans section would work similarly but be only have new topic posted by devs of course since these would be plans devs have already agreed upon. This section would be to ensure that nothing bad makes it into development before it happens. Certain parts of the introduction of CQ with Incarna, the inventory in Inferno and the fleet hanger changes in Retribution would have benefited greatly from something like this letting players raise red flags on key features being changed.

The Completed Project's purpose would be mainly for feedback on features that have made it all the way through the process and are already live. This way devs can categorize the feedback for specific features instead of having one massive feedback thread for the entire expansion.

For all three sections there should be the ability to vote on specific comments so that people that all agree on revision can show their support for the change without needing to make a post themselves. And the comments with really high positive or negative posts should be moved to the top so that it's clear to a new reader what the controversy over an idea is all about.

And finally the devs need to be able to post their own special comments. Normally the dev comments would be mixed in like forum threads do now with their blue tag to make them stand out. But besides that there also needs to be a system that allows devs to highlight large issues to the readers. These sort of special dev comments should automatically be moved to the top and probably have a different color of text assigned to them.

In the end, a player should be able to goto this page, find a topic in the idea stages, see that a bunch of players support it, a bunch of other players support it provided a mechanic was changed, and CCP also supports it but have a note that it would take a while to implement or would require code rewrites.

I know it'd take the web team considerable planning and work before anything like this happens but what do you all think?