On 2012-07-21 16:34, Pantheon wrote:
I don't think you understand how spam bots work...

'Valid username' - just tested it, all you need is random text or numbers. That's not going to stop spam.

Also, the 'survey' is pitifully small and doesn't ask for any real useful information, so I'm not sure what you're expecting to get out of it.

On 2012-07-21 17:09, Bardiche wrote:
Seems a bit slanted, too: If you think small ships are underpowered, you need to explain why. If you think they are not, you don't get the option of picking overpowered or just right, nor a need to explain about them.

Also, the option if you're a dev or not seems horrible insecure since anyone could put anything without problem, it looks like?
[ This Message was edited by: Persistance on 2012-07-21 18:21 ]

On 2012-07-21 17:07, Jim Starluck wrote:
Besides, we already have Plans to adjust balance between small ships and large. We don't particularly need a survey at this point.

On 2012-07-21 17:53, Fatal Infinity wrote:
I mean you(the devs) rarely tell in an understandable way what you are balancing and why and the players just try to put some stuff out there to see how players feel and dev's just bag on it like now!

On 2012-07-21 15:03, Fluttershy wrote:
I think the only thing that makes small ships underpowered is the K'Luth.

I mean, you can use an assault frigate against an UGTO dreadnought and win (force a withdraw) but again'st kl'uth, they just cloak, wait to charge their JD, and then point jump you.

On 2012-07-21 19:19, Bardiche wrote:

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On 2012-07-21 17:53, Fatal Infinity wrote: I mean you(the devs) rarely tell in an understandable way what you are balancing and why and the players just try to put some stuff out there to see how players feel and dev's just bag on it like now!

If you're going to conduct a survey and use it to present data to the community or the developers, we'd be more helped with a survey that is as accurate and useful as possible. The current data is not comprehensive.

To explain: If a majority indicate that small ships are underpowered, then write comments on why, we are left with two bits of information:

1) A tally of how many people think small ships are underpowered VS those who do not think so

2) A wealth of comments we have to check, read, tally up and compare, contrast and consider

What we're trying to say is, expand on the survey and consider the questions more to acquire a more valuable output.

Rather than "Are small ships underpowered?", consider:

Statement: I think Frigates have adequate firepower to deal with other Frigates.
Strongly disagree -- Disagree -- Agree -- Strongly agree

Statement: I think a Dreadnought's alpha strike does adequate damage versus a Frigate.
Strongly disagree -- Disagree -- Agree -- Strongly agree

These two questions both deal with the strength of small ships (firepower and defences respectively), but are more indicative of where the problem is and give a tally of it, instead of requiring one to sift through the comments and hoping they managed to identify the cause for their opinion. You can expand these questions by Frigates VS Cruisers, for example, and Destroyers VS Frigates. Everything's possible.

The current survey provides us an idea of how long someone has been playing, what their rank is, and whether they think small ships are or are not underpowered. They are not indicative of where the problem is (if any), what players feel need to be changed about it, and if ships are neither underpowered nor overpowered but under-perform in a specific area.

I hope this makes it somewhat clearer what we meant by our commentary. While we appreciate any and all help, we do want to be able to make use of the community's helpfulness, instead of having to brush it aside as we cannot use the input.

I'm not that great at wording things, so this may come off offensive (in which case I apologise), but understand that our concerns are grounded in validity of the survey so the results will be useful, either by community or developers.