97% of Viewers (Players?) Want Ship Interiors!

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Aeorath

Aeorath
Factabulous said:
If your elections are usually 'do you want someone to be in charge?' then yes, they should be cancelled.
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Don't get me wrong, I know elections are there for us to think there's some semblance of order, but to say that Obsidian's poll is flawed cause he asked for ship interiors and not if people want Swiss chocolate, come on.

The man asked a question and that was it. Oh, he didn't ask MY QUESTION? Yeah, his poll is invalid for me.
 

Eeka

Eeka
thanks for sharing your pool @Obsidian Ant! I'm someone who's first thoughts when seeing the Odyssey launch trailer was doing a party with friends inside the Anaconda's bridge.

As it's already been said, here in the forum we have very vocal users that say they don't want it but it is obvious how welcomed this feature would be by the majority of players. The thing is, the normal person will not desire to spend time and energy with such kind of attention-seeking users. It's tiring and bad for health.
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Eraden said:
If that is a persistent phenomenon, then, off the top of my head, it would indicate two possibilities: a) This game is not nearly as profitable as some of us might think or b) This game is quite profitable but revenue is being diverted away from it.
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c) The amount of effort required to hire, train, onboard, and integrate a sizable addition to the ED team, combined with the inevitable loss of productivity, coordination, and increase in bugs a larger team will bring, isn't equal to the increased output a larger team would actually bring.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
[PS5]Aeorath said:
Don't get me wrong, I know elections are there for us to think there's some semblance of order, but to say that Obsidian's poll is flawed cause he asked for ship interiors and not if people want Swiss chocolate, come on.

The man asked a question and that was it. Oh, he didn't ask MY QUESTION? Yeah, his poll is invalid for me.
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His question is valid, just not very useful. Unsurprisingly people want ship interiors. Colour me amazed. Even Yamik's poll for fdev : "Will you give me a free copy?" had a more surprising outcome :)
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Bigmaec said:
This is no joke :mad:

Who likes dogs? Cats on the other hand...
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[SI] [VR] SenseiMatty said:
I have a dog... it's my cat's pet :ROFLMAO:
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I have 2 dogs because they are smaller than many cats...
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Nice to see the thread staying good-natured: well done all!
 

Aeorath

Aeorath
Factabulous said:
His question is valid, just not very useful. Unsurprisingly people want ship interiors. Colour me amazed. Even Yamik's poll for fdev : "Will you give me a free copy?" had a more surprising outcome :)
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So that question is not useful in your opinion? Then we beg to differ here, mate. Because it's not useful for you, or for me, questions shouldn't be asked anymore.

Ok, that's a good one.
 

Northpin

Northpin
[PS5]Aeorath said:
What people are trying hard to prove is polls don't matter. Well, according to the logic, let's not even have elections next time cause polls are not real anyway.
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'" polls don't matter" - what's that even meaning?

A poll might be statistically relevant or not.
As in: its results, sampled from a small subset of the population, can be accurately extrapolated to a much larger segment of population.

For example: elections exit polls are dead accurate if properly done as in the subject sample size is large enough and, more importantly, varied enough.
They usually interview less than 5000 carefully selected people. And they can nail the final results at decimal level.

But if you do the same election poll only amongst the members of a single party - it will give you the impression that party will win the elections - simply because the vast majority of the people interviewed for the poll are actually voting for their party. 🤷‍♂️


Point is: a poll can show whatever the initiator might want it to show unless it is done by a reputable company and based on statistical relevant participants using non-leading/non-biased questions.
And they are very prone to induce confirmation bias and polarizing behavior

Guess them polls are forbidden here on the forums for a reason...
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Darkfyre99 said:
c) The amount of effort required to hire, train, onboard, and integrate a sizable addition to the ED team, combined with the inevitable loss of productivity, coordination, and increase in bugs a larger team will bring, isn't equal to the increased output a larger team would actually bring.
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Yeah, the comms overhead of both hiring and maintaining larger teams scales with the size of the group - which soon mounts. Given huge resources, and a willingness to restructure your company, it can be overcome but you still end up getting back less per-person from larger teams. Information work : it's not like making widgets :)
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
[PS5]Aeorath said:
So that question is not useful in your opinion? Then we beg to differ here, mate. Because it's not useful for you, or for me, questions shouldn't be asked anymore.

Ok, that's a good one.
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Were you surprised that most people want ship interiors? You should hang around here more, then you would have been less surprised ;)
 

lysan

lysan
Obsidian Ant said:
What OA is trying to do is to find out how many players want ship interiors.

Simple poll is simple for simple reasons.
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However that does not give you the whole picture does it?
It's like asking how many people want free money? The follow up question should be, ok you want ship interiors at the expense of atmo planets? or interiors first and legs later?

You can't have your pudding if you don't eat your meat!
 

Eraden

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Darkfyre99 said:
c) The amount of effort required to hire, train, onboard, and integrate a sizable addition to the ED team, combined with the inevitable loss of productivity, coordination, and increase in bugs a larger team will bring, isn't equal to the increased output a larger team would actually bring.
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That may be true but for a business it's not the primary motivator behind whether or not to hire additional staff. The primary motivator is profit. Can said business, in the end, make more money than was spent by adding a project to their "to do" list and hiring staff to do it. Most companies do not seem to be overly worried about small decreases in efficiencies as long as there is potential for greater profit. You had indicated in your earlier post a constant stream of examples where projects were shelved or scaled back in order to carry out others. This indicates a lack of resources dedicated to this game. The two possibilities that I gave for reasons as to why this might have happened were strictly focused on the bottom line....is there enough money (revenue coming and and being dedicated to game development) to do these projects? From your examples, it appears that this is not so.
 

Kellan Fell

Kellan Fell
Alien said:
The problem with the poll, as someone else pointed out, nearly anyone who'd vote no probably couldn't be bothered to vote
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That holds true for almost any poll ever though. Look at the turnout for UK General and Local Elections... When your future is decided by a majority of 36% of the electorate, ,then you just know democracy doesn't work.
 
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