Alright, I'm gonna just go over why this Survey is the most ******* ridiculous thing, that it just flabbergasted me completely. Now bare with me, I am not writing this because I dislike Surveys, but this is just.... NO.
Defender Default
Surprisingly, a larger majority showed positive support for defender default than expected as you can see above. Only about 15% of the server disapproves of it now, so I think its safe to say that this system is a success and we’ll be using it for the foreseeable future.
To improve the system the most consistent open response questions essentially called for the staff to specify what exactly a defender is, to take out the vagueness in some situations.
Lets start with this then. "Surprisingly, a larger majority showed positive support for defender default". First of... The question was, 'Do you agree with the IMPLEMENTATION of defender default', not 'Do you support defender default', and true, defender default is indeed a nice middleground for the server, as a way to make everyone happy, but that was not the question..
Raid Rules
I honestly was surprised about this one. Our community is notoriously opinionated about raiding and raid-related topics, in one form or another. However, the majority of respondents were simply unopinionated towards them.
As it stands, those who dislike the raid rules form a slightly, but still notably larger segment that those who approve of it. I will bring this up at the next staff meeting.
Now this one... Oh boy... Essentially, I want you to see the "I have no opinion of them" as either, "I don't give a ****" or "I don't know them" or "I don't give a **** to know them". Perhaps it is due to the large amount of players, (especially new ones) who doesn't have a group to play with, or a nation to join, or people to go raid with. I think you need to reevaluate what the actual problem is.
The LOTC Economy
The playerbase concurs with the staff on this one, in that trying to stimulate the importance of the mina and create a more realistic economy is fairly important for the health of the server. Supporting comments praised the immersion, healthy competition and etc that comes out of it.
Suggestions to improve the economy are too diverse to summarize. Though a recurring comment was that nations should be in charge of their own economies moreso than through staff intervention.
Yeah... Nice question... It's like asking someone "How important to you is it that Orange juice remains orange?". There's litterally nothing that you can draw from this. It would have been different if you would have given 4-5 subjects, and then had people priorities them in order. However this, i don't know how your gonna draw any context whatsoever.
* I don't even want to go into the Nexus Plugin, that's for a serperate thread *
Player/Staff Relations
Once again, I wasn’t expecting such a large chunk of people to answer with no opinion. Everyone in this community seems to have some viewpoint on this topic, but if anything, this poll teaches us a lesson about the power of a vocal minority.
When asked how relations could be improved, most of you responded with something along the lines of more transparency, more communication and more say for the regular player before big changes in the server.
This one is probably the most fun one, and I would like to go back to the beginning where you litterally proves the point that the staff is so disconnected from the community that they even get surprised by their own flippin' surveys... Like what the ****... I think most of the players who answered this survey, doesn't have the "GM to Nations buddy buddy relations" that most 'veteran' players does. They don't know what relation there /is/ to take into consideration..
The rest of the survey is just a bunch of numbers that you manage to vaguely describe.. What conclusions the moderation team may come up with.. I have no clue, and honestly, this is just... ARGH! So disconnected from everything that is happening..