If it’s in the proper place you can be confident it’ll be passed onto the devs.
Settlements I’d seen requested in various forms every so often through Ideas section and feedback threads well before it became a thing.
It’s entire balancing was overhauled from player feedback
A beta feature thats currently being tested on beta was heavily requested by players
Optional ads occasionally gets brought up by players as a requested feature. That’s something that was explored but was then scrapped for whatever reason.
Event buildings - the ones requested the most by players are the ones we’ve seen pop back up as Daily Specials
GvG has been requested by players to have fixes - they’ve stated they’re going to release some final tweaks. What those tweaks are we’ll find out when they’re announced but it came from player feedback.
Guild Battlegrounds - likewise that concept came from players requesting either an alternative to GvG or GvG on mobile
There’s a tonne more then that but when players say feedback doesn’t change things there’s a few things to keep in mind
- Look at how many servers there are each with their own player base and forums. It would be impossible to implement every idea or bit of feedback from every player. It has to be prioritised as to how much can be done at any given point in time once it’s decided which ones are worth having.
- Often the players that say things don’t change from proposals (especially in regards to their own ideas) haven’t given it time to change. Some players jump up and down in impatience anytime after 5 mins of submitting and say the system doesn’t listen to them because it hasn’t been implemented that week or didn’t jump the queue of every idea that came before it
- Just because something wasn’t implemented in a specific way doesn’t mean that idea or feedback wasn’t taken on board and implemented in a different way.
- Often when we say something we’re not saying the reason behind the problem but rather what we think is the best solution. So if you can get to the bottom of what the problem is there may be an even better solution then what’s being suggested.
- what may seem like an amazing idea on the surface may create a dozen more problems that’d prevent it from being viable