I don't see how "New God Idea" and "New Species Idea" are different from anything else that gets posted on the forum in this respect. Less than 1% of the things posted in the Tavern ever get implemented. Yes, God and Species ideas are even less likely to get in, but it's always possible. Futhermore, often when people discuss game design ideas, they aren't
just trying to get something in the game, but also trying to improve their idea of crawl design in general:
WildSam wrote:And the secondary goal of this proposal is learning about acquirement logic: should it give you stuff usable for you (and then giving devs idea about fixing this) or stuff usable for you at the moment (which i believe to hurt my favorite race).
Even if they don't come with this goal specifically, people do learn what not to do in a proposal:
Choko5 wrote:Yeah, this was stupid. What was I thinking?
Thank you for all the reasonable comments.
At least I learned something from this.
Just because a thread doesn't result in anything in the game doesn't mean that it hasn't produced anything of value.
On IRC my nick is reaverb. I play online under the name reaver, though.