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I feel like I did a bit better on this survey, hope you all agree and enjoy it! I will probably wait a bit longer to post results, so as not to "foul the waters" with other opinions. Please keep it bumped!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SU4WRikn4eAGbyHYufNOpg_3d_3d
Taken, although I had some confusion with a couple questions (but I closed the survey page and now I can't look at the questions to remember what they were...)
Maybe to spark your memory
questions were about what you are doing while waiting for beta, muliplayer modes (LAN,PBEM, hotseat,Internet), tactical combat, what happens when channeler dies, essence finite, rechargeable etc, and what dev jounral topic would you be most interested in?
I tried to copy paste it here and strip out the data, but it was being a major pain.
Note, under channeler death, you didn't include the obvious. Channeler dies. 
I'd guess that would be the 'Game Over' option...
Taken the survey by the way...
I like this one more than the camp one.
I'm not sure how to rate "other" though.
I'm most anxious to hear about something that probebly is a definate "no" by this point.
Done, done and done!
This really was a top rate survey, you put some thought into those questions. Thanks for the effort (Karma +1 for you)!
You know, it is strange. I used to have Karma, but it seems to have all vanished for some reason....I hope that doesn't turn out to be a sign 
Good job Denryu, keep doing it. This kind of action surely helps enlightening the community and makes us all think more about game concepts. And let's hope the devs have a tought about it too
By this do you mean you continue to play the game without a channeler....interesting thought and honestly one that had not even occurred to me or I would have included it.
I have already got some great ideas for next week's survey lol. I think it will be better than this one!
Btw, Survey number 1 has now had 53 respondents, I will give it a couple more days and post final (?) results from that. Survey number 2 has already had 34 participants! We will see how it goes today and I will probably post the first batch of results tomorrow (Saturday).
Oh, that worked! The part about what happens when channeler dies. I couldn't tell if the options besides "game over" implied "game over" or that you continue playing. So I had a lot of trouble deciding how to rank those, and in the end I just put "other" as my favoritest and explained what I want...
Did you get that karma at a different forum? Karma doesn't transfer from forum to forum.
You are now entitled to my opinion. I like the channeler-free game idea, sort of what I talked about as the ideal situation in my poll.
I hereby Knight Denryu as the unofficial maker of polls for the game Elemental.
OK 51 people have taken it already, as opposed to 53 total eventually took the first one. I'm
calling it a solid sample.
| 1. How are you spending your time while waiting for E:WOM beta? | |||
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| answered question | 48 | ||
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| Playing other turn based strategy games |
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29.2% | 14 |
| Playing real time strategy games |
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8.3% | 4 |
| Playing MMOs |
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12.5% | 6 |
| Playing some other computer game |
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27.1% | 13 |
| Internet/forums surfing |
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16.7% | 8 |
| Saying my final farewells to my family and friends |
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6.3% | 3 |
| 2. Elemental: War of Magic will be a predominantly single player game. When playing multiplayer, how frequently do you think you would use the following modes of multiplayer, assuming they were all available? | ||||||
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| answered question | 50 | |||||
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| I would not use this at all | I would rarely use this | I would use this often | I would use this predominantly | Rating Average | Response Count |
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| Internet using StarDock Servers | 12.0% (6) | 34.0% (17) | 32.0% (16) | 22.0% (11) | 1.64 | 50 |
| LAN | 28.6% (14) | 36.7% (18) | 26.5% (13) | 8.2% (4) | 1.14 | 49 |
| Hot seat | 47.9% (23) | 31.3% (15) | 10.4% (5) | 10.4% (5) | 0.83 | 48 |
| Play by email | 64.6% (31) | 18.8% (9) | 10.4% (5) | 6.3% (3) | 0.58 | 48 |
| 3. Tactical Combat: There have been several ideas regarding tactical combat: Complete autoresolve (AI runs both sides and determines casualties and outcome of tactical battles) Autoresolve with weighting based on battles you fought yourself, Autoresolve but with ability to script unit behavior (like Dominions), tactical real time battles, with AI running units, but player can give orders that over-ride the AI (units with no orders will do their best to be useful), or completely player controlled tactical battles (units will do nothing until ordered) Rate how strongly you like or dislike each concept. If you do not understand a concept (for instance do not know how Dominions works) please select the NA box. Also note that these are not exclusive, multiple options of these or other possibilities could be included. | ||||||||
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| answered question | 51 | |||||||
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| Hate | Dislike | Neutral | Like | Love | N/A | Rating Average | Response Count |
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| Complete autoresolve | 19.6% (10) | 33.3% (17) | 29.4% (15) | 13.7% (7) | 3.9% (2) | 0.0% (0) | -0.51 | 51 |
| Autoresolve with weighting based on past performance | 20.0% (10) | 34.0% (17) | 26.0% (13) | 12.0% (6) | 4.0% (2) | 4.0% (2) | -0.56 | 50 |
| Autoresolve with scripting behavior like Dominions | 2.0% (1) | 8.0% (4) | 32.0% (16) | 30.0% (15) | 8.0% (4) | 20.0% (10) | 0.43 | 50 |
| Tactical w/AI, player over-ride -units w/o orders act | 6.1% (3) | 6.1% (3) | 14.3% (7) | 30.6% (15) | 40.8% (20) | 2.0% (1) | 0.96 | 49 |
| Player only control -units w/o orders take no action | 0.0% (0) | 8.2% (4) | 18.4% (9) | 36.7% (18) | 34.7% (17) | 2.0% (1) | 1.00 | 49 |
| 4. On this question, you will only be able to give one ranking to each choice. In other words you can only have one favorite, one least favorite and one of each choice in between. When a channeler dies, what should happen? | |||||||
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| Least favorite | 2nd least favorite | Middle favorite | 2nd most favorite | Most Fave! The One! | Rating Average | Response Count |
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| Game over. | 19.6% (10) | 9.8% (5) | 21.6% (11) | 9.8% (5) | 39.2% (20) | 3.39 | 51 |
| "Spell of Return" - after x turns caster comes back | 14.0% (7) | 20.0% (10) | 6.0% (3) | 38.0% (19) | 22.0% (11) | 3.34 | 50 |
| Dying Curse - channeler severely damages nearby enemies | 16.3% (8) | 32.7% (16) | 26.5% (13) | 22.4% (11) | 2.0% (1) | 2.61 | 49 |
| Landwaster - channeler causes major global event | 12.2% (6) | 20.4% (10) | 30.6% (15) | 22.4% (11) | 14.3% (7) | 3.06 | 49 |
| Other - Use comment box below. 50 char limit, no essays | 27.6% (8) | 10.3% (3) | 20.7% (6) | 3.4% (1) | 37.9% (11) | 3.14 | 29 |
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| 5. On question 4, for any of the options other than "Game Over" should the channeler have to make previous preparations in order to have the option available? | ||||
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| Yes they should have to prepare | No preparation should be necessary | Rating Average | Response Count |
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| Spell of Return | 80.4% (41) | 19.6% (10) | 0.80 | 51 |
| Dying curse | 64.7% (33) | 35.3% (18) | 0.65 | 51 |
| Landwaster | 70.6% (36) | 29.4% (15) | 0.71 | 51 |
| Other | 34.4% (11) | 65.6% (21) | 0.34 | 32 |
| 6. We don't really know much about how essence works in the game. That being said, at this point in time, which of the following describes how you feel essence should be dealt with? (Select all that apply) (This question may be repeated on a future survey as more information comes available) | |||
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| answered question | 50 | ||
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| Essence is finite. Period. You get what you start with. |
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24.0% | 12 |
| Essence should very slowly recharge. |
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52.0% | 26 |
| Essence should quickly recharge. |
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2.0% | 1 |
| You can recoup essence, taking back a % from imbued stuff |
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44.0% | 22 |
| Essence should be gained from leveling your channeler. |
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60.0% | 30 |
| Essence should be allowed to go negative, risk burnout |
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22.0% | 11 |
| Essence should be allowed to go negative, risk death |
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20.0% | 10 |
| Essence should be available as quest reward |
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56.0% | 28 |
| 7. What about elemental are you most anxious to hear about in upcoming Dev journals? | |||
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| answered question | 49 | ||
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| Response Percent | Response Count |
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| Expected beta release date |
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16.3% | 8 |
| Magic System |
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46.9% | 23 |
| Mundane Tech Tree |
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10.2% | 5 |
| Will there be Bears? |
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4.1% | 2 |
| More details on essence |
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4.1% | 2 |
| More details on factions/backstory |
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8.2% | 4 |
| Screenshots |
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4.1% | 2 |
| Other (leave comment below) |
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6.1% | 3 |
| Show repliesComment here |
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A few comments: Question 3 I found it interesting that full autoresolve was pretty negatively received,
in fact the only type of autoresolve that had a net positive score was autoresolve with scripting. The two
methods of player controlled tactical are evenly split between units with no orders just stand around, and
units with no orders are under AI control and "do their best" to help. Interesting.
The final question I seriously expected more like 90% wanting more info on the magic system. I did try
to provide interesting alternatives, and it looks like I succeeded. Also, I was not able to incllude the
"comments people added in this data grab, I am going to see if I can extract those somehow, there were
good comments on the two questions that I had comments enabled.
Thanks all for the participation, if there is significant additional surveys taken I will post updates. Cheers!
Ugh, not sure why it formatted over to the right side like that - not sure how it appears to everyone else, but I can't see some of the results. I will try to fix it!
Damn, so I did take it too late? 
Well, good job anyways. Altough the former student of sociology here must complain about the first one: that kind of question is bad bad to force a single answer. I do many things while I wait!!! 
(and always add a N/A option)
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