Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Some of the questions are a little narrow.

How many Starbases does your corporation own?

Which corporation? Altcorp, membercorp or alliance? Because I interact with POS's for all three.

Starbases = Commonly refered as "POS", the thing with the control tower and the forcefield.

Outposts = Stations owned by corporations.

I'm doing this survey now, and excited that these issues are at the forefront of the devs minds, but I really don't understand what many of these questions are asking me.

For example: "Would you prefer using structures through co-op gameplay?"

I have no idea what that means, or even could mean.

Sorry in advance for giving text based answers in a number field (how many sov structures have you deployed)...

link gives a "server not found issue" Halp plox?

Link works now but some of the assumptions are pretty terrible.
for one i'm not in an alliance i'm in CAS.
We can't make POSes in CAS so a lot of question are pointles..
the ones about sov warfare asssume we're in alliances but a lot of people are not in alliances.
how do i answer questions with bad assumptions do i just leave them blank?

Get the word out. Make a reddit post!

what is meant by the question about preferring the use of structures through co-op gameplay? Like some dude with roles has to be there while I use structures?

Poor questions, you force us to give misleading answers. You ask us in a number of places to rank gameplay elements. This jsut tells you we think something is better or worse than something else, which gives the illusion that we think X element is in good shape, when in fact in some of these the players believe they are all in significant trouble. In all honesty 1-10 ratings would have been far more effective.

When you make references to stuff like co-op game play you need to state some semblance of an idea to get a good response, everything in eve is ALREADY INHERENTLY COOP game play due to the nature of this being an MMO, you can set up a pos yourself for example, but someone must build it and the fuel blocks for it, and if someone attacks it you and multiple other persons more than likely will need to defend it. The only true not co-op game play is perhaps industry but only because of the prevalence of alts.

Also even is inherently a game where trust is punished not rewarded, so people want to interact with others only when they must.

In short my suggestion to you is to hire a consultant who has experience in political campaigns, or even better a pollster and have them take your ideas and make them into questions, you will more than likely receive better data that will lead you to better decisions. You may be even able to farm this task out to you marketing department which i presume has done marketing research at some point, similar concept they will have studied this in school.

That said i survived it and answered as best I could, but the structure of it I think is going to make you feel that some areas of the game are in good condition when prehaps they are not.

EDIT: Additionally alot of these questions only maybe 1000 people in eve can answer jsut due to how few truly interact with outposts especially and to a large degree even ihubs. The number of people who still do not understand basic dominion sov war mechanics is pretty astounding.

What, do people shoot sov structures alone? Is there only one person using pocos? Is there only one person using an outpost? I mean I see POSes being managed by one guy but usually there is a corporation or something behind that? Or at least it will take co-op to take it down.

Sometimes the questions are not worded clearly ( did you vs. did your corporation or did your alliance ). That's it though, I hope something interesting comes from this.