I figured it’s been 6 months, why not throw a new poll together. I asked the survey-taker to submit a ranking 1-10 for each character. Questions are not required - if you don’t feel like you have the knowledge to rank a character, don’t submit a number. The first page is general information about the survey-taker. This is mostly to satisfy my own curiosity, but I’m interested in comparing how different-rostered people see each character.
If this isn’t the way the poll has been done in the past or you feel strongly that it should be done a different way, let me know. Also, if something needs editing or doesn’t work, let me know that too.
I believe formerly they were all ranked against each other, I only split the pages up for length-sanity. That said, I don’t think comparing people across star-levels makes too much sense. Looks like a good number of people have split it up according to star-ranking, so let’s go with that. I believe I left the answers as edit-able after submission, if anyone wishes to change their answers.
Done. I didn’t give many ratings above 8 or below 5 so I guess the game is more balanced than I thought. It did remind me that there are quite a few 3* characters who have been left on the rubbish dump though
I wondered about that - I just assumed that Google was tracking it with a cookie. Not sure why I was allowed to select one without the other. I thought about requiring the login, but I figured that would turn some people off.
Unfortunately I didn’t put a whole lot of thought into it - I just looked at Ebola’s results and attempted to quickly ape the process. Probably shouldn’t have put it together at night either, or I would have seen the mistake Malcrof pointed out (maybe). I’ll release the results when it’s done, then fix the poll based on criticisms here. This one won’t have the best results, but once I’ve corrected the issues listed (and put a bit more thought into it) I can throw out a better one in a few months. I might also make a poll to find out people’s biggest scarecrows too, just for giggles and to test the changes.
A quick glance at the poll data this morning showed that about 45% of people have 0 covered 4s, and the same percent have 25+ 3s. Looks like I’ll need to expand the 3* question options as well.
As for the data queried, I was looking to get basic information without gathering too much information. I’m pretty sensitive to vacuuming up data - though the PvE/PvP distinction would be a good one to make.
Thanks for all the feedback so far. If I get some downtime at work I’ll go ahead and fix the biggest problems.
Very well contributed to the distinction between pve and pvp.
I rated EL and IW as 7, but to separate in pve and pvp would be totally different.
EL pve 10, pvp 2
IW pve 9. pvp 4
Just to name two examples.
I’ve done a poll by Google drive and the answers do not mention neither the name nor the computer’s IP which was answered the questionnaire. With that does not like Google to identify the same person answered the questionnaire more than once. Usually you do manually, when you read identical or nearly identical responses in the short time interval 1-5 minutes, it means that the same person doubled his answer. With this eliminates the additional response.
I updated the 4* question, then checked the results - definitely wiped the other responses. I’ll leave the 3* one for now and fix it next go-round. Adding the text to compare the * classes only with each other. I’ll leave it at that for now while I review the post by Atomzed, per aesthetocyst’s recommendation. Once I figure out the best changes to make I’ll close it, spit you guys the results, edit the poll to add the new changes, then if you don’t mind looking it over as an additional QA I’d appreciate it.
Just a suggestion. If you can group the “Number of days played” data into ranges (0-100, 101-200, 201-300, etc) and show corresponding number of entries in each range that would be great.
There isn’t a way to get that (that I know of) from Google, so I threw the .csv into a spreadsheet and used a couple of formulas. Here are the results:
< 100 = 6
100 to 199 =12
200 to 299 = 18
300 to 399 = 32
400 to 499 = 27
500 to 599 = 10
600 to 699 = 33
700 to 799 = 26
Interesting, still a little misted on the source of the numbers, but…interesting.
To “me” it seems the ‘tops’ of each star are more accurate than the middles, like the middle is just a mishmash - especially for 3s…but the more important ‘top’ seem OK, personally I’d do a little shuffling, but even at that when looking at the numbers (3hor vs CMags), the delta is so small that its fighting over a nickle…though I’d wager SWitch over both simply due to 4 transition and long term usefulness. I’m shocked to see Kingpin so high pleasantly - I always felt he was stronger than given credit, but since mine isn’t worth spit, I can’t scream it. Same goes with RHulk. Forum discussion would make you think he’s a 3*…but no he looks pretty good. I’m on the line about XFDP. He’s been my focus simply because I like DP, but he struggles to find the right team…he can be great for defense (Thing) or for Offense (XFW), but putting them together is just too slow. HE needs a consistent red generator.
But for the most part I thumbs up the majority of those numbers.
I’ve been thinking of a few formulas to use to determine the result based on the days played categories. I might break it into a 1-300 days, 301-500 days, 501+ just so I don’t totally fracture the results, but I’ll see if I can throw something together tonight / this week.
Might be an idea to start a new thread with the results, Xandor. People are more likely to overlook this thread, since it still looks like the poll. Thanks for putting in the effort, though!
I don’t think that’s really needed though. The biggest improvement IMO really is simply separating stars. IS there some titular shift in votes and the such based on days? Days also doesn’t equate to much when it comes to ignorance/knowledge. My wife has over a year on her, but she STILL is primarily a 2* user (that’s all on her heh).
I think as mentioned a new thread might be “best” per say.
I still don’t have big issues with anything on here though…the delta in numbers show when “its close”…and my disagreements are usually close shrug
-Unreall