How would you patch this game?

[Scott Hebert]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
Gak, I hope I'm not the one being accused of being "insulting" !

I'm fairly sure you're safe.

And in the original post, my suggestion was to gather data on over-used and under-used game elements, i.e. determine the balance issues by surveying the playing community.

In other words, my "own idea of balance" as you put it, would not enter into the procedure.

A nice thought, but just like history, it's impossible to be objective here. What data are you gathering? Just the selection of the criteria you'll follow would be made according to your own ideas of what balance is and how to achieve it. I'm not trying to josh you so much as to show how impossible that is.

In the interest of promoting such endeavors, what would you suggest would be a proper method of gathering such data?