[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Oh, so going by what an even smaller number of people think is a better idea? Hardly. Is not the goal to make it acceptable to the largest number of people possible?

I did not suggest that a group of four or five people is more representative of the wider SE4 audience then a forum poll would be, but you cannot claim that it is less so. Just because a poll would get a larger result does not mean it would be a more accurate result. The fact is that statistically the difference between a small handful of people and a slightly larger handful that would answer a forum poll question is insignificant when compared to the wider Se4 audience. And when you consider that the personality of a player that frequents the forum is very likely different then the average Se4 player, the results are not likely to be representative at all for either handfull.

Since we cannot get an accurate sampling of the wider Se4 audience we must make assumptions. By the level of sales, the relative lack of complaint and widespread and generally positive feedback about the game we can assume that the general attitude among the wider Se4 audience is a positive one. Making radical changes to the stock game late in it's life without a compelling basis in customer disatisfaction is not wise.

Some changes can be done without risking a general backlash among the players. That is what we are trying to accomplish. Moving the game more towards what we in the forum believe is a point of balence in the game, without tipping it so far that we tick off the larger population of players that doesn't have a big problem with the game as it is now.

I don't disagree with all of your ideas. Many of them are ones I wish had been done in Se4 from the begining and are on my personal list of wishes for Se5. But I believe many of them are too large of changes to make this late in the stock Se4. That is what user mods are for.

Geoschmo