Things we'd like to see in the next patch

[jimbob]

Okay, the thread was called:

SE:IV Platinum Edition (voting topic)

For the entire thread just enter "Platinum" into the search engine (right next to the big bullet at the top of the screen ). The original voting choices are in the very first post. The final tally of what people wanted is posted here below. As long as I've got you though, my personal Favorites as of today are 1) Warp Point Types - I want 5!!, 2) Better Satelite Placement and 3) more damage only types. But hey, I'm just a hack modder - ask Suicide or Val or Rolo or.... Anyway here's the poll data:

Top 15 choices in descending order of popularity:

#12 a-c, spread out/orbit satellites around planets, 13% of votes
#29, mouse wheel support, 9%
#1, components with research and intel functions, 7.5%
#7&8, more “damage only” categories, 7.5%
#22, add “system randomizer” to editor, 6%

#23, add more warp point types, 5.5%
#4, give drones “move to” in orders menu, 5%
#14 , introduce race specific anger modifiers (a.k.a. the blood feuds modifier), 5%
#16, , teach AI to utilize captured populations (utilizing atmospheres) 4.5%
#26, auto-resupply by en routeships running low on supplies, 4%

#6, option to not require star for some types of constructed planets, 3.5%
#17, improve AI combat tactics… esp. “just out of range” and “in & out of range”, 3.5%
#13, introduce anger modifiers for the use of certain components or facilities, 2.5%
#15, give “declare war” teeth. If human or AI agrees, enforce the war footing, 2.5%
#24, racial points used to buy starting technologies, 2.5%

For those who love stats...
General Statistics of the Voting Process:
-total votes cast 205
-top 5 choices received 43% of votes
-top 10 choices received 67% of votes
-distribution is standard bell curve, slightly wide std. dev.

The mouse wheel was the only anomalous topic, with 9% of the votes, but only 5 individuals voting for it. For the most part these voters (more accurately ‘devotees of the mouse wheel’) cast all their votes for #29. I think that I should have limited the number of votes per topic to 3 per person to even this out, but too late now. Perhaps if someone opens a new thread - Platinum II - we could get a new vote keeping in mind the new threads, new ideas, old ideas, etc, and we could fix up the way the weighted voting works.

[ October 29, 2002, 00:20: Message edited by: jimbob ]