Closing Survey!

[Magic Rob]

I'd like everyone to take a moment to fill out the following survey. It's less than 20 questions, and honestly shouldn't take longer than 5ish minutes (unless you're way opinionated, in which case it might take longer).

CLOSING SURVEY!

Thank you to everyone who participates!

-Rob.

[Magic Rob]

Lots of good stuff so far! Keep it comin'!

We'll be closing this survey the first week of July and tabulating / reporting on the results then. Should be valuable data for those looking to run

[Magic Rob]

I'll be closing this survey one week from today. Get your views in iffin you have views!

[Decimus]

Just shy of 24 hours to get your input and views into us before the survey gets turned off, folks.

[Decimus]

And the Survey has been closed this morning. Thank you to everyone who wanted their voices heard. Staff will be going over everything in our remaining weeks and determining the best courses for all of the input provided.

[Magic Rob]

Alright ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk about this survey and what it means to us. I’ll give this an itemized once over to see what the people have spoken on!

We had 22 respondents (that’s a little less than 50% of game), all of which said they were current members of game. Huzzah!

How would you rate the *canon* aspects of game (I.E. Is this game representative of what the books say)?

18 people (a little over 80%) said that game was either pretty damned close or *is* canon. That’s pretty high, and we’re proud of that. One of our goals was to run a canonical game, so to see that reflected in player opinion is pretty sweet.

What sorts of plots are your MOST favorite plots?

Here the problem is trickier. The two highest replies were ‘Explore the World of Darkness’ and ‘Scooby-Doo!’ (at 7 and 6 replies respectively). We had 3 replies of ‘other’ which were actually all just picking a few of the other options.

What sorts of plots are your LEAST favorite plots?

Here’s where it gets funny… the two highest responses were ‘Scooby-Doo’ and ‘Other’ (explore the world of darkness is the next highest reply. You can laugh now). Most of the ‘other’ options were all over the place, but combat seems to be a thing y’all don’t enjoy. Chase, but don’t enjoy. For the record, all of our plots have non-combat solutions. Also, folks that *want* to explore the world of darkness and don’t like other supernatural types confuse me.

How would you rate the difficulty of this game from an in-character perspective?

The highest votes were for an ‘average’ level of difficulty. We have tried to make a challenging world, but we don’t want to go overboard. Seeing almost everyone feels that the difficulty of game is round about average is pretty spot on.

How much do you agree with the current staff's view of restrictions?

A cool 50% said that Rob’s Draconian policy was spot on. 9 of the remaining folk felt that they mostly agree but could use a touch more variety. A wise fellow I once knew said that a properly handled scene was one where both parties felt that they could have taken it a bit further. Thanks for the faith 

What do you think the game needs MORE of?

The two highest replies were personal plots and city development. Both of these types of plots are largely player driven; y’all need to go look into the city or build in personal plots. Every once in a while staff has time to root through player’s histories and write something fantastic (which is fantastic), but usually if there’s a part of your history that you want explored, players need to shake the staff tree for something. The ‘other’ category gave a few interesting results, and I too love character costumes.

What do you think the game needs LESS of?

The two highest replies were ‘custom things’ and ‘other’ at 7 votes a pop. ‘Custom things’ baffles me a bit as we’ve only really written a few custom systems. Off the top of my head, I can think of only a few custom things we’ve built (lores, blood, beads, and some backgrounds). Most of these custom things are character creation related or very simply clarifications. The background changes are all really minor, and the big systems we’ve written are largely ones the players don’t have to deal with after inception. Of the ‘other’ category most were replies of ‘nothing’, supernatural NPCs (of which there are two) or mean. Unnecessarily mean. Feel bad.

How fair have you found the staff to be in regard to out of game items?

17 replies came back with very fair or better. That’s pretty fantastic. Really. Thanks for the confidence! We try. If there are big problems, or lingering ones, find a PA or staffer and bring them up. It’s possible we just missed something.

How would you rate the current staff for responding to concerns of the player base?

15 replies came back with pretty well or better. Almost 70%. Not the best, but given what it was in December, I think we’ve shown improvement. If folks have private concerns they’d like to address, I recommend finding a PA or me at game.

Rate our paper table!

14 replies came back with pretty well or better. That’s 60ish% not great, not terrible, we could use some work here. I blame google.

How would you rate your overall experience with EC Vampire?

19 replies came back with pretty well or higher (60% said Very Well!). That’s shockingly high. That makes me really happy. That’s like triple the likes of December. GO US!

The more complicated questions had more complicated answers.

Staff read all of the various comments to specific staffers. Most were very constructive, and I’d like to thank those that kept it classy.

The next question revolved around what we could add to game to make it better. Most of the replies were supportive, and I like that. There was a question about having listed demographic results of clan percentages, and possibly having rewards for lower census clans. There was also a request for the house rules and errata printed in a binder at game, which I’ll look into. A few of the other replies tied into each other, and I’ll look into making them more of a thing.

The next question was about what makes people less like game. While there were a few less polite answers, a leading thing people liked the least was watching others do stuff while they didn’t or private meetings drawing away from the gathering area. There isn’t really much staff can do about that particular issue, though. Players will do what players do… There were a few unhelpful comments and a few constructive ones about how staff is organized or handles certain issues; we’ll be looking into these.

There ya have it, folks! I’d like to thank those that took the time to reply. It was helpful. Those HST candidates who want to see the results in their entirety to better shape their campaign, I’ll gladly shoot em the read out.

Cheers!
-Rob.