[IMPORTANT] AoS Ultimate Suggestions Poll

[Stiivais]

I present to you
AoS Ultimate Suggestion Survey - Volume 1

What is this contraption?
What does it do?
Will it blend?

Read on to find out.
(forum optimized description below, alternative one at the link)


Intro:
Okay, there are some things about this community which, from my standpoint, seem rather wrong.
Let's take this - The Suggestions Forum, for an example.
We get new ideas almost daily. Some are better planned than others, some are rather quick cases of "what if?" and some can't be even understood, because the author has quite limited knowledge of english. I cannot say, that community is split into fans of BF and fans of CoD, so i will just say that members of this community express rather "varied" opinions about these ideas we get. And when these people feel a need to defend or, to be more precise, enforce their opinion upon others, flame wars ensue. But this is just a mere distraction, as there is one thing about this forum, which makes me faceplant almost instantly upon opening a new topic. No, not facepalm, i mean FACEPLANT! On a concrete. From the second floor.

So, it's always the same old story...
I go into a forums, and see a new topic.
"OH H4i GUYzz, I H4Ez A NEwZ IDEAHH!!1!!! 175 7o7a11Y ORiGiN4L !!!"
So, i try to ignore the title and be tolerant.
Then i open the topic...
...I read the article...
...I faceplant.

The Problem:
You don't have the slightest idea, how often we have duplicate posts.
It's not only frustrating to the moderators to lock these posts, but it also
makes finding good ideas much harder.

And the worst part - there are no "main" topics about a certain suggestion.
The rage between all of the members is spread between about 4 or 5 topics about the same thing,
so there is no effective way for the developer to actually know what the community wants.
And the "Do Not Suggest" list is not so effective, as it simply keeps these posts from appearing,
but does not give us a verdict.

Implement or not.

The Fix:
So, i thought of a possible fix for this situation.
I made a community poll, where most of the suggestions made to this day are present. (+45 of 'em)
So, you can go to the my site, answer the questions, and if most of the active player-base would do this, then we might finally have a clear view on things. The poll takes around 10 minutes (for me at least) and is made up of individual questions. so you dont have to go through all of them in one go or you can just answer the questions you want to.

I understand, that many of you will find this to be tedious,
but i believe that this would give us a little more knowledge about the community, and it's needs.

Have a nice day,
Stiivais.


Edit: If this idea doesn't fail miserably, could it be stickied.?

[HaloWarLord711]

tl;dr


lol just kidding

[IrishElf]

If you select classes, removal of headshots, killstreaks, aim assist, rocket launcher, kevlar armor, achievements, or exp system then you're everything I hate about most FPS games and should go take a long walk off a short pier. Kthxbai.

[Stiivais]

tl;dr
lol just kidding

This was EXACTLY what i was initially afraid of.

If you select classes, removal of headshots, killstreaks, aim assist, rocket launcher, kevlar armor, achievements, or exp system then you're everything I hate about most FPS games and should go take a long walk off a short pier. Kthxbai.

I didn't select a thing except for achievements.
There should be a choice between a red pill and a blue pill. Though blue pill is cyanide. :P
Time will show...

[Fluttershy]

"increase spade damage"

Totally agree, 100 just isnt enough! I want to really overkill people.

[Gorman]

"increase spade damage"

Totally agree, 100 just isnt enough! I want to really overkill people.

It is only 50 damage at the moment - 2 hit kill.

[Fluttershy]

"increase spade damage"

Totally agree, 100 just isnt enough! I want to really overkill people.

It is only 50 damage at the moment - 2 hit kill.

guess thats a sign I should stop playing exclusively on shams then

[Gorman]

Oh yeah I forgot that is a serverside option... XD

[Stiivais]

Oh yeah I forgot that is a serverside option... XD

I guess, that the original idea was to make some kind of hardcoded damages. Or set a minimum. Or something.
I don't really know, but i myself disliked playing on a server where spades did 10 damage, sneaking was hard. And painful :D

[Stiivais]

So, the idea of a poll was basically a failure? Like, shoved on 2nd page and left to rot? Oh well... Gotta go battle some deuce ponies. xD

[armandux1]

Actually i think this is a good idea and i voted, also...

A little bump ;)

[Gorman]

Don't know about that.

My suggestion would be:
- Allow 1 suggestion per thread
- Have mods merge duplicate threads and rename threads to descriptive names
- Possibly have threads be required to have moderator approval before becoming publicly visible.

[Hay]

My main concern is whether BEN would see the result of the Poll.

[Stiivais]

Don't know about that.

My suggestion would be:
- Allow 1 suggestion per thread
- Have mods merge duplicate threads and rename threads to descriptive names
- Possibly have threads be required to have moderator approval before becoming publicly visible.

Does the wordpress plugin even support this feature?
Any .php geniouses here? :P

As for Ben seeing this, IF we make this sucessful (+100 votes), then this could even be stickied,
also i would make more, until posts get a vote feature...

[Leonzable]

I gave my votes in,
Bump