A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

I found myself quite interested in the results of the first, improvised
pretender poll, but as some people pointed out, it had some glarring
omissions. And because I am still stuck at work, I intend to add some
more questions... I am just curious about how people design their pretenders.

Ah, and anyone who is getting tired of my polls can come to California and keep
me company while I upgrade my server farm. Haven't you always dreamed of
playing with $70,000 servers with one terrabyte of diskspace?

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

Been there, done that, fsck'd up, your turn. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Im in California also. Hmmm that reminds me I have a garage full of ISP "parts" from the Last major gig when it went under. That old "instead of severance pay" line.

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

Oh, is *that* what ISP stands for? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

Nifty. Tuidjy just illuminated a 'feature' of the current forums. 15 out of 18 people vote that the pretender's magic has to make up for the nation's weakness, and ... It reports that 17% think that's important! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Whoever Shrapnel gets the forum package from really ought to fix their poll package for checkbox / menu item / non-exclusive voting items.

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

Cainehill: there have been, ATM, 29 voters for that part. Many of them have voted for more than one possibility, though. The problem is that instead of voters there stands votes! If you try to count the number of votes you would probably get to the numbers you see now. It shows how many percents of the total votes go into that one...

Here is shown how many percents of the voters agree in something.

29 voters:

early game (turns 5-15) expansion: 15 52%
combatant in middle game (turns 15-30): 5 17%
major player in late game: 6 21%
expand on his nations magical strenghts: 10 34%
negate his nation's magical weaknesses: 24 83%
need to allow the use od certain rituals: 13 45%
some decent bless effects: 6 21%
powerful blessing effects: 2 7%
great site searcher: 5 17%
great researcher and forger: 2 7%
flier, or able to quickly become very mobile: 8 28%
immortal, or at least have recuperation: 2 7%
very strong dominion: 5 17%
very resistant to surprise attacks: 12 41%
cheap: 10 34%
conductive to roleplaying a Divine being: 4 14%

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

Hmm, with 35 votes I'm the only one that makes great and powerful gods with lousy scales.

Whats the point in being a God if you aren't Godly? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

What's the point in being a God who rules over a universe that sucks (turmoil, sloth, drain, death, and misfortune)?


-- Arryn, who prefers to be a Servant of the Light than a Mistress of Hell.

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

True that. I always go for a growth 3, atleast luck 1 and stay away from blood and death. Someone has to be the good guy after all. And it's not going to be AI, that's for sure. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

When the universe sucks, the people need a God all the more =P

- Kel

Re: A new and improved Pretender design poll.
 

I have a couple of comments on the poll design.

I don't much care if my Pretender is a great researcher, but I do like for he/she to be able to forge some decent items. The two aren't necessarily linked the way they are in the poll.

It seems to me that "player skill" is necessary to design a good Pretender in the first place.