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The unofficial pirate poll

What do you think

By AlcariAmbaron on February 6, 2008 9:30:00 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums External Link

AlcariAmbaron

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Here's my attempt at a somewhat effective data-gathering method on the pirate issue.

Remember that voting for more option means more work for the poor and overworked Ironclad employees

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Triponthis
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February 6, 2008 9:42:11 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
They can be fun, but the ability to change them, or at least have them scale to game speed. Would give the game more of a sand box feel.
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Spartan
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February 6, 2008 9:47:31 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
Voted for all. I really think the pirates needed to be a game setting feature.
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Raymundus
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February 6, 2008 9:54:42 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
The game seems designed around pirates, so I don't want them gone altogether. But the strength/frequency sliders are good ideas. Too bad you don't have a "both sliders, no switch" option So I just voted for frequency instead.

A moderate frequency slider seems very reasonable. Between 10 and 20 minutes would be a good range. Or if they want to go overboard they could ramp it to a range of 5-30 minutes. Anything wider is just silly.
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stonedagain08
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February 6, 2008 9:56:33 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
while I do like playing with pirates as I always like to go an ecomomy route so they are quite usful to me (there a good idea and perfect the way they are, for me anyway), I still do believe it should be an option to enable/disable and a slider from them. More importantly though are the game stopping bugs that need to be sorted out before they add more features, please fix the game so it don't crash every 10mins-1hr as it's very frustrating have to keep reloading from a random autosave.
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RonLugge
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February 6, 2008 10:10:45 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
Where is the "leave alone" option? Don't fix what isn't broken!
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FireLock
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February 6, 2008 10:11:48 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
I think you should have a vote option for "No additional configuration required". That way, the devs could guage how many people actually want a change.

BTW I'd like to be able to configure all options, but in the main I think the frequency would be the most used. Especially if I could set it so they only turn up every 40 minutes or so.
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Blair Fraser
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February 6, 2008 10:14:57 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

This is an excellent idea but please add a "no changes neccessary" or a "I like them as they are" option even if it means restarting the poll.

P.S I can edit in a new URL if it won't let you edit.

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Spartan
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February 6, 2008 10:21:52 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

This is an excellent idea but please add a "no changes neccessary" or a "I like them as they are" option even if it means restarting the poll.


P.S I can edit in a new URL if it won't let you edit.




How about an official poll on this site?
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Mtn_Man
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February 6, 2008 10:22:06 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
I've only played for maybe two and a half hours on easy, but I've not found the pirates to be much of a problem. More of a nuisance, really. But I still support the idea of more options in games, so I voted for all of the above.
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hawk
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February 6, 2008 10:23:01 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
   NOW here is why i really like these forums a joint community effort to try solve a joint community problem and what’s more the devs are actually listening to it   

BRILLIANT   

ps there should be a leave as is option though in all fairness   
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