What happens to things in the 'Already suggested list'?

[kerbonaut101]

I was about to suggest a feature for deployable EVA experiments but then realized it was on the 'already suggested list'. So... what happens once something is on that list? Does it get read by developers?

[UbioZur]

Most of the suggestion are read by the developers (else it would be useless to have that forum).

Because there are a lot of suggestions per days we have two lists:

- what not to suggest:

Mainly "big" features that the dev have confirmed to be added or not implemented. And therefore it is not useful to suggest those ideas to them, so we will close those thread (if tags as suggestion and not discussion).

-Already suggested:

A list of suggestions that are suggested very often and where we don't especially have official point of view from the dev (usually smaller features).

That list is here for you to look at before suggesting, easier to search one post rather a whole forum. It will also include current alternative if possible.

If one of the linked post is still quite active (less than a month since last post), keep posting on it.

Those list are hard to keep up to date so I still advice to use the search feature of your browser on the 3 first page of the forum as well as the search feature of the forum (only look for the [Discussion] and [suggestion] tag.

Here is a reason for all that, imagine that you are a dev and look through a suggestion forum, two scenario:

- you see 10 posts about making cake suggestion with only 2-3 answer each: you read the first few and don't read the others.

- you see 1 post about making cake with 30-40 answers: you read it all, since it is less click, and popular, and less likely to be repetitive suggestion.

[kerbonaut101]

Most of the suggestion are read by the developers (else it would be useless to have that forum).

Because there are a lot of suggestions per days we have two lists:

- what not to suggest:

Mainly "big" features that the dev have confirmed to be added or not implemented. And therefore it is not useful to suggest those ideas to them, so we will close those thread (if tags as suggestion and not discussion).

-Already suggested:

A list of suggestions that are suggested very often and where we don't especially have official point of view from the dev (usually smaller features).

That list is here for you to look at before suggesting, easier to search one post rather a whole forum. It will also include current alternative if possible.

If one of the linked post is still quite active (less than a month since last post), keep posting on it.

Those list are hard to keep up to date so I still advice to use the search feature of your browser on the 3 first page of the forum as well as the search feature of the forum (only look for the [Discussion] and [suggestion] tag.

Here is a reason for all that, imagine that you are a dev and look through a suggestion forum, two scenario:

- you see 10 posts about making cake suggestion with only 2-3 answer each: you read the first few and don't read the others.

- you see 1 post about making cake with 30-40 answers: you read it all, since it is less click, and popular, and less likely to be repetitive suggestion.

Thanks I added my suggestion to this thread which was listed next to EVA activities (the latest post was only 6 days ago)

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/42334-Kerbal-deployed-sensors-beacons-lights