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My suggestions of how the final voting-process should be executed are as good (or bad) as anyone’s – please, make your OWN opinion heard. This topic is an important one, because as Dominique points out:
“You really think this will work? He, let's face it: Even only some days after the first announcement, it's pretty hard to have an overview of what's getting posted here - what's more, the ideas contradict each other, aren't feasable with today's technology or are rightout NUTS”. Read more in topic: “Are you sure this is the way to do it?”
Another BIG problem is also: when the final days before the first complied suggestion-list deadline arrives:
WHO AM I (or any individual thread-master - or any of you 100+ CIV-addict individuals out there) TO DECIDE WHAT IDEAS IS “GOOD ENOUGH” TO BE SENT TO FIRAXIS? BY WHO’S MANDATE?
Well for starters: I suggest that everyone of you thread-masters, seriously begins to think about compiling and (please) numbering up the suggestions and ideas in your own threads (something like the excellent technology-thread, hosted by Octopus. Take a look at it).
Some of the ideas are to advanced and abstract to easily be compiled into a simple 3-6 row format. That’s understandable, but at least try to squeeze them in below 20 rows – everything to avoid those massive hard-to-digest 60-100 rows text-chunks out there.
Also, i the name of clarity: perhaps the individual master-lists should be diverted into the “Civ3 – General/Suggestions” thread again, where EVERYONE can participate – and one “Civ3 – The list of ideas to Firaxis” there ONLY the appointed thread-masters have access, to update their lists.
Having two “General access - all topics” main threads is not a good idea because everyone wants to be in the most frequently used one, and the less-and-less used one automatically dies, sooner or later.
HOW SHOULD THE ACTUAL VOTING-PROCESS BE EXECUTED?
If each and every individual suggestion in the lists compiled by the thread-masters are NUMBERED: any CIV-3 forum-reader can participate with he’s (or her) own selection of “idea-number” votes. An example:
TECHNOLOGY: 4, 11-16, 18-19, 27, 33 and 36-37
USER INTERFACE: 5, 8, and so on...
Above means that i vote “Yes” for each of above numbered ideas (absence of numbered ideas automatically means “thumbs down” for that idea).
It shouldn’t be too hard to summering up our votes – after all, we are only about 100+ who regularly make suggestions – not thousands...
Any weighted 1-10 polls are way too complicated and laborious for any manual vote-counting, and in webpage-implemented polls it’s way to easy to cheat by repeatedly clicking favourite suggestions.
Finally, if the majority wants it that way:
NON of the ideas (not even the unpopular ones) are excluded – we only attach our votes-results to each suggestion, and rank them accordingly with the most popular on top.
Then sending it all to Firaxis an let THEM decide was feasible or not.
Well, what do you Civ-oholics think? Again, make your opinions heard.
“You really think this will work? He, let's face it: Even only some days after the first announcement, it's pretty hard to have an overview of what's getting posted here - what's more, the ideas contradict each other, aren't feasable with today's technology or are rightout NUTS”. Read more in topic: “Are you sure this is the way to do it?”
Another BIG problem is also: when the final days before the first complied suggestion-list deadline arrives:
WHO AM I (or any individual thread-master - or any of you 100+ CIV-addict individuals out there) TO DECIDE WHAT IDEAS IS “GOOD ENOUGH” TO BE SENT TO FIRAXIS? BY WHO’S MANDATE?
Well for starters: I suggest that everyone of you thread-masters, seriously begins to think about compiling and (please) numbering up the suggestions and ideas in your own threads (something like the excellent technology-thread, hosted by Octopus. Take a look at it).
Some of the ideas are to advanced and abstract to easily be compiled into a simple 3-6 row format. That’s understandable, but at least try to squeeze them in below 20 rows – everything to avoid those massive hard-to-digest 60-100 rows text-chunks out there.
Also, i the name of clarity: perhaps the individual master-lists should be diverted into the “Civ3 – General/Suggestions” thread again, where EVERYONE can participate – and one “Civ3 – The list of ideas to Firaxis” there ONLY the appointed thread-masters have access, to update their lists.
Having two “General access - all topics” main threads is not a good idea because everyone wants to be in the most frequently used one, and the less-and-less used one automatically dies, sooner or later.
HOW SHOULD THE ACTUAL VOTING-PROCESS BE EXECUTED?
If each and every individual suggestion in the lists compiled by the thread-masters are NUMBERED: any CIV-3 forum-reader can participate with he’s (or her) own selection of “idea-number” votes. An example:
TECHNOLOGY: 4, 11-16, 18-19, 27, 33 and 36-37
USER INTERFACE: 5, 8, and so on...
Above means that i vote “Yes” for each of above numbered ideas (absence of numbered ideas automatically means “thumbs down” for that idea).
It shouldn’t be too hard to summering up our votes – after all, we are only about 100+ who regularly make suggestions – not thousands...
Any weighted 1-10 polls are way too complicated and laborious for any manual vote-counting, and in webpage-implemented polls it’s way to easy to cheat by repeatedly clicking favourite suggestions.
Finally, if the majority wants it that way:
NON of the ideas (not even the unpopular ones) are excluded – we only attach our votes-results to each suggestion, and rank them accordingly with the most popular on top.
Then sending it all to Firaxis an let THEM decide was feasible or not.
Well, what do you Civ-oholics think? Again, make your opinions heard.
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