Keep community informed on new development

Start including in the dispatch the things that the developers are currently working on or will be soon. Even if it's high level details such as "a bunch of minor annoyances/clean up coming soon" or "adding a new special option game type, any guesses to what it is?". Maybe even a rough ETA, i.e. "expect updates to the gamefinder approximately mid-August".
I think we all would like to know what's in the pipeline and this will draw excitement around it.
Or even better yet, maybe have the developers give the community the chance to provide input. Something such as "Which of the below would you be most interested in getting implemented? (dates are estimates based on no major issues/etc)"
- Forum updates ready by 1st of September
- Unlimited Adjacent forts by middle of November
- Multiple invites at a time by 1st of October
- Archiving ranks by 1st of January
- Infected Neutrals by 1st of January
- 12 player games by mid-2014
This would really get the community motivated on getting to suggest what should be worked on, the developers/suggestions mods/admins could work together to pick out some small, medium, and large projects to be voted on.
I think we all would like to know what's in the pipeline and this will draw excitement around it.




Or even better yet, maybe have the developers give the community the chance to provide input. Something such as "Which of the below would you be most interested in getting implemented? (dates are estimates based on no major issues/etc)"
- Forum updates ready by 1st of September
- Unlimited Adjacent forts by middle of November
- Multiple invites at a time by 1st of October
- Archiving ranks by 1st of January
- Infected Neutrals by 1st of January
- 12 player games by mid-2014
This would really get the community motivated on getting to suggest what should be worked on, the developers/suggestions mods/admins could work together to pick out some small, medium, and large projects to be voted on.