Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hi all, I'm thinking about doing another Grand Poll, complete with analysis and graphs. It's been two and a half years, after all. I wanted to solicit ideas for categories to ask about. I'll keep some of the ones from last time, of course, but a bunch weren't interesting and should be replaced. I'm especially interested in categories where we'll get multiple answers with many people picking them. Those are more interesting and, of course, better for statistics fun. Last time we had 60 responses, so stuff that more than 10% of the forum population might pick should be our target. Any thoughts? Random thoughts, game related, previous topic related, previous single-poll topic related... all ideas welcome. SurraAgob and Sudanna 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 List of all Spiderweb games played and which were completed as a comparison with Steam where there seems to be a lower completion percentage. How many want to see you make a remix of A:CS? Which game do you want to see another game in the series: Avernum, Geneforge, and/or Nethergate? ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I wasn't around back then. Was favorite SW game part of the poll? Avadon 2 and A:CS have been released since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Geneforge: Shapers vs Rebels Avernum: Empire vs Avernites Nethergate: Romans vs Celtics Then we'll use caps on the letters, later on, it'll turn into a roleplay where somebody shapes a roamer to bite someone's head off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Geneforge: Shapers vs Rebels Avernum: Empire vs Avernites Nethergate: Romans vs Celtics Then we'll use caps on the letters, later on, it'll turn into a roleplay where somebody shapes a roamer to bite someone's head off. You forgot nephil pirates vs. slith ninjas. Or is it the other way around? Triumph, adc. and Valdain the King 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Level 1 Hermit Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 But there are so many more factions in Geneforge... Taygen will have his justice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I think you should pull some of the more popular categories from that list we put together a few weeks back, beginning with Harry Potter house. I would link it here, but I recall at least one of the entries was NSFW. Luca and Quiconque 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 I was thinking about that too, Acta! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 yeah i dont think "what porn category are you" is appropriate for the SW poll. All my suggestions are stupid, so I won't give any. adc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 You forgot nephil pirates vs. slith ninjas. Or is it the other way around? Slith are best fitted to be ninjas... ...'Cause they're cold-blooded... YEAHHHHHHHHHH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 But do not forget the Nephil's cat like reflexes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Luca Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I'm not sure how you plan on wording your survey, but I'd be interested in testing a theory that most people do not play both of SW's main brands of games. So basically, you have life-long Geneforgers who know nothing about Avernum and vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I'm more interested in finding who doesn't play any Spiderweb games. Tyranicus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 As far as forum members go, we have data on that from the last one and it doesn't seem to be the case. Most people owned games from multiple series. Though there were plenty of people who didn't own Nethergate or Avadon (this was before Avadon 2) there were very few respondants who didn't own anything in Exile/Avernum, or who didn't own anything in Geneforge. Owning does not guarantee playing all of, of course, but it's probably a reasonable proxy (and easier to measure objectively) for having played at least some of. As far as similarities in game ratings, the pattern was even more interesting -- you may remember this chart: Basically, it seems that similarity of the game interface & engine drives what people like & what they play, more than the series itself does. The G3-5/A4-6 bloc is telling in this regard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 do red lines indicate that people who owned one game were less likely to own the linked game? it seems deeply weird to me that e2 and boe would be anticorrelated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 That's the ratings chart, not an ownership one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 oh right people giving low ratings to e2 and high ratings to boe or vice versa would also be surprising to me, though gem helper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Deja vu: i'm surprised that people who liked BoE tended to dislike Exile 2 and vice versa. like that is probably the #1 most surprising result from all of that data (The full thread, 2nd of 4, with explanation of that fact, is here:) http://spiderwebforu...2-game-ratings/ Sudanna 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Luca Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Basically, it seems that similarity of the game interface & engine drives what people like & what they play, more than the series itself does. The G3-5/A4-6 bloc is telling in this regard. Huh. I specifically don't like the second Avernum trilogy because of the similarity to Geneforge and do favor the first trilogy. But G2 is also my favorite game, so I'm the odd man out no matter what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 So far, I vastly prefer the first trilogy remakes to the second trilogy, and my favorite game is also G2, so... you're not all that alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 G2 does have the most likable character of the entire Geneforge franchise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Luca Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Shanti vs Miranda Goldengirl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Hmm...some random ideas: Number of different places people have lived? Number of places live outside their country and/or continent of nativity? Age at which people first started playing video / computer games? Has someone ever played some type of trading card game? Do they still do so ? Has someone actually read LotR and The Hobbit, or only seen the films? Who read the books after seeing the films versus before seeing the films? Does appreciation for the Avadon game correlate in any way with age? For those who have already gone / are currently going to college (for an undergrad degree), how from their parents did they move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Last time, younger age correlated pretty noticeably with Geneforge appreciation, which surprised me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Valdain the King Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 You forgot nephil pirates vs. slith ninjas. Or is it the other way around? I always liked Pirates better than Ninjas. Ninjas were too too close to rogues whereas pirates were just more original. I liked my dungeons of dredmor pirate-like character too. However, the shadowalker (while closely resembling ninjas) is much cooler. The reasoning is that JV made shadowalkers. Nuff Said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer gem helper Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Last time, younger age correlated pretty noticeably with Geneforge appreciation, which surprised me. really? that seems perfectly reasonable to me. spiderweb's main audience (and to some degree, consciously, its target demo) is weird middle school kids. my intuition would be that people favor the best game from the engine and story ideation that was current when they entered that demographic, which would make geneforge's core fanbase slightly younger. i think nethergate and blades would be the main games to buck that trend, with the former being targeted at a slightly older audience (and being the only utterly sui generis thing in jv's catalogue so far) and the latter having way more content made by a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 It's now been five years since the Grand Poll, so I think it's truly a good time to do another one, hehe. I've gotten enough done on a new poll to believe this will not turn into an abandoned project, so now I'd like to bring this topic back up. Ideas for interesting things to ask about in the poll. GO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Something about OBoE and things like support for and interest in it. Something about if people believe they are using their time wisely with regard to the inevitability of death and most people not being able to live to see more than 80 or 90 springtimes in their entire lives. Stuff related to knowledge of neurological development. Which species of even-toed ungulate is cutest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 on a scale of 1 to 10, how is your pain nikki. and ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 (edited) "Do you think nephilim do that thing where they stick one leg up in the air while they lick their genitals? [Y/N]" "How often does Jeff Vogel respond to your e-mails? [1-10] (Gotta say, I'm not impressed on this front.)" Edited July 12, 2017 by Dintiradan Tyranicus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 We meet again, Scorpiradan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Do you fill out surveys? ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 4 hours ago, The Color of Her said: We meet again, Scorpiradan. I'm not sure, but this may be the first time I've gotten one of your references. Tyranicus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Is that in reference to the quoted text or the PDN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 The quoted text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Quiconque Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Am I truly that obscure? ...never mind, I think I know the answer I'm getting if I ask that question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 1 hour ago, The Color of Her said: Am I truly that obscure? ...never mind, I think I know the answer I'm getting if I ask that question Maybe this should be a poll question. Also an opinion on trolls and where they should live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Brainstormed topics while I went walking: Height? Number of different states / countries lived in? Number of siblings? Favorite Pokemon? Favorite superhero film of the past 20 years? Favorite JRPGs? Favorite non-SW non-J RPGs? How many have ever played an MMORPG, & how many still play one? Preferred form of exercise? Favorite current SW forum moderator? Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, or Archer? Have you ever taken music lessons, if so, in what and do you still play the instrument? Do you currently own a pet, if so what kind of animal? How many currently keep a vegetable garden? How many have gone hunting in the past year? Fictional character you would nominate to be a SW forum moderator? Have you ever watched anime (and do you currently)? Have you ever watched Game of Throne (and do you currently)? Have you ever watched Twitch streamers (and do you currently)? How many movies do you see in theater in an average year? Attend religious services on a weekly / monthly / yearly basis? How many times have you been hospitalized (not counting when you were born)? Have you ever had a broken bone? Own a Nintendo Switch (or intend to acquire one)? Own a PS4? Own...whatever the name of the current version of Xbox is? Quiconque 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 (edited) 6 hours ago, Triumph said: Favorite current SW forum moderator? this is silly, why would you ask something that everyone already knows the answer to Edited July 14, 2017 by sylae until proven otherwise, i am going to assume i hold the record for seeing the most SWer genitals. and they said i wouldn't amount to anything in life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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