1. The cows are nowhere near active enough on them ...
2. For threads they start there is "limited" involvement, often leaving more questions unanswered than there are answered ones
3. For threads they don't start, there is almost ZERO involvement. Whilst I don't expect them to get involved in the general "my dog had puppies" and "I reached puberty yesterday" type of threads, I would like to see threads that offer another perspective to the game encouraged AND REPLIED TO. There are MANY threads listed in the forums here that offer new twists on gameplay, or suggestions on how to improve existing things, but these all too often, fall by the wayside - either ignored by the cows or, at least, uncommented on by the cows.
4. Worst of all, threads that DO get cow involvement, with a "promise" to action them STILL quite often get forgotten about. Just looking through the forum will show what I mean. If necessary, I can provide examples, but it's just as easy for the cows to trawl thru THEIR forum and find them as it is for me to do that.
5. I know, an old chestnut, but, the lack of forum mods. I know we can flag up threads to their attention and they'll eventually get looked at, but by then, a lot of them have degenerated into a "my woohoo is bigger than your woohoo" type of thread, and the damage is already done. Having forum mods online would nip this in the bud before it gets out of hand. I also know that the cows keep saying they won't reintroduce more mods - but I still feel that this is a mistake on their behalf.
I appreciate that you (as in the cows) are busy with other things - and I also appreciate all the fine work you are doing on the game, but, the forum is, for most of us, our sole communication with you as the developers - and too often we are ignored which leads to disillusionment and probably, a drop in game revenues for you.
After all, we are your customers - we should have more dialog back and forth



