[CF List] Crossfire Polls

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        Most polls should be taken with a grain of salt - especially those that
     
     don't
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      have a none of the above type of answer (in which case people may still
     
     vote for
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      something, like removing the swashbuckler, just because they have to vote
     
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      something.
     
     
certainly and doubly so for polls with such a low number of participants
(20-40 people is pretty small poll).
I just wanted to send up the results for interest.  Now one thing I saw that
was really interesting was the web work done on Mids server where there
seems to be a lot of logging happening (player race/classes picked, killed
by statistics, most used maps...)  I always liked the feedback (and polls)
on the old Mids server and am glad to see it continuing and improved.
Feedback is good.

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        The reason some classses/races probably are popular vote getters for
     
     removal
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      is because they aren't all that interesting.
     
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        while theif may be one of the main 'areas' in traditional RPG's, it
     
     probably
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      loses out in crossfire because it doesn't have any really great skills
     
     that make
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      it more playable in some games.
     
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for sure.  As with all statistics it is important to undertstand what the
message really is.  I think that is the messge I was trying to get across.
There is a good reason that warriors and wizards are the top picks - this is
where the rewards are and how the game plays...

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        Mostrai as a god?  Probably because it has the best low level enemies,
     
     and
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      thus one of the best ways to get exp.
     
     
Most likely, as in real life players have shown that they will find and
exploit any imbalance - in fact the questions should have probably been 'In
you opinion, which is the most interesting or best Cult'.  Not that this
fact is unimportant - it may point to the fact that a overwhelmingly popular
cult may need to be adjusted...

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        animations:  Would be really hard to provide a list of animations the
     
     player
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      could choose from.  Even easier now in that the players use the same
     
     animation
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      logic as everything else, so you could even include non players (eg,
     
     pirate
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      lass, etc).  But there should probably be some limits - in some cases,
     
     like
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      dragons, the race is the major factor.  But for humanoid type races, there
     
     could
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      be a large choice of images.
     
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Oh yes, I am personally against having say gnome players choose a huge
barbarian animation type of thing, and would prefer to use race specific
animations (a gnome is a gnome is a gnome!), but it seems I am in the
minority here.  I am currently working on animating the player faces so once
I get the basics done (still lots of 'classic' animations to do here) it is
likely I will start adding a few filler animations like halflings in heavy
armor or gnome wizards.  It shouldn't be too hard to make face changing
booths or whatever.  I am esthetically against using just any old animation
for a player face - they should all be four direction at least...  I would
like to add an option in the hall of selection however where you can pick no
class but get a wack of money and entrance to a little shop to buy a few
skills or other useful items.  This might be a backdoor way to encourage
people to use the racial player animations...




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