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[Woodstock]

bump ... I know bumping is not always appreciated ... but this needs to be read ...in my opinion anyway.

[metro]

Kudzu, on 29 November 2011 - 04:31 PM, said:

I think it would work well if you had ad's on billboards on city maps.

yes,please

[metro]

Garth Erlam, on 30 November 2011 - 09:56 AM, said:

Thanks so much for doing this Mr. Smiles - this is so much awesome information... you're the man.
The Man.

Now garth, you need to sell it to the devs for us ! =) we're depending on you.

[Adridos]

Metro, on 05 December 2011 - 06:14 AM, said:

Now garth, you need to sell it to the devs for us ! =) we're depending on you.

What do you mean Metro? He already sent the info to devs and got answer + they locked the original thread with the survey.


P.S: How many people have participated as for now?

[Mr Smiles]

382, 68% from this forum, 2% from GameFAQ, 8% from MekTek, 8% from BattleTech, 7% from friends, 8% from Living Legends.

[Adridos]

Mr. Smiles, on 05 December 2011 - 08:42 AM, said:

382, 68% from this forum, 2% from GameFAQ, 8% from MekTek, 8% from BattleTech, 7% from friends, 8% from Living Legends.

68%+2%+3*8%+7%=101%

Just saying.

[Haeso]

One assumes he rounded rather than use decimals.

[Adridos]

Haeso, on 05 December 2011 - 09:22 AM, said:

One assumes he rounded rather than use decimals.

If I understand English terms for maths right (rounded - 8.59321545 -> 8.6 and decimals - not complete numbers as shown before), then probably yes, but he could have used at least 0.5 in the cases with the least part of the number missing.

[Zyllos]

The reason why I felt the findings "expected" to me is because followers of this game (and I just assumed there is a large majority of people here who are followers of BattleTech) typically want their games to closely follow the rules they are used to. It just makes sense to want the rules you love to play as in your tabletop game to follow into the video game you are happily waiting on.

[Mr Smiles]

Haeso, on 05 December 2011 - 09:22 AM, said:

One assumes he rounded rather than use decimals.

Essentially, though it's more a matter of "I had five minutes to respond to the post, and the website I use doesn't provide decimals, so I just copy-pasted the data without calculating it out to finer decimal places."

[metro]

Adridos, on 05 December 2011 - 08:38 AM, said:

What do you mean Metro? He already sent the info to devs and got answer + they locked the original thread with the survey.


P.S: How many people have participated as for now?

lol...and Garth....what do the Devs have to say?

[Mr Smiles]

Metro, on 05 December 2011 - 03:25 PM, said:

lol...and Garth....what do the Devs have to say?

They've said and implied that they appreciate the data and think it's awesome that I did all this. However, that's all been in passing, they've made no other official statement other than to interject appreciatory head pats and thumbs ups.

Which is fine. I hardly expect them to say "You know, we had a certain information-release schedule, but let's throw all that out to announce stuff early by commenting on the findings." I don't expect them to say anything at all. For me, it's enough to know it's been read.

[Adridos]

Metro? Do you know any good fansite with BT/MW fans, that is active right now and the people there don't know about the survey, or even the game yet? It would help a lot. I thought just of Mech2.org and Mech3.org, but they are sites related to those games and not BT as a whole. If the people would try the survey, however, we would get a lot of good feedback from the Mechwarrior community, since it's one of few places you will find a lot of us.

Edited by Adridos, 06 December 2011 - 06:47 AM.

[metro]

only one that comes to mind, is the classicbattletech.com site. I would imagine some of their folks have visited here, and I dont know if there is a link over there, to the survey on this forum. I havent been to CBT in a few weeks.

[Fiachdubh]

That was a pretty impressive and extensive survey and analysis. Look forward to any future editions.

[Ancient Demise]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo

We want the Kodiak too

[clopin]

MY OWENS WASN'T ON THAT LIST?!

On another note, really curious to see that survey half a year from now when a larger population starts looking at the game.

[Habokku]

It's 3048 in the current timeline.

The Owens doesn't show up till well after the clans invaded, and the earliest source book I can find it in is Technical Readout: 3058, fully ten years from the present year. At the earliest it was probably in production and testing by 3055. So unless some radical revisions happen in this reboot (a possibility to be sure), I doubt we'll be seeing it.

It's based heavily on the Jenner, which is confirmed as being in-game. No use double-dipping as it were. Try the Jenner out, you may like it as much or more than the 'ole Owens.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

<S> See ya dirtside.

-Havoc
A.K.A. Habokku

[Kyll Long]

Time to add some Categories Mr Smiles on the strategic side I think

[metro]

Mr. Smiles, on 05 December 2011 - 06:31 PM, said:

They've said and implied that they appreciate the data and think it's awesome that I did all this. However, that's all been in passing, they've made no other official statement other than to interject appreciatory head pats and thumbs ups.

Which is fine. I hardly expect them to say "You know, we had a certain information-release schedule, but let's throw all that out to announce stuff early by commenting on the findings." I don't expect them to say anything at all. For me, it's enough to know it's been read.

Well Mr. Smiles! Congrats on the work, the surveys overwhelming success, and the nod from the Devs at PGI for your efforts.

I am sure, they read it a few times, and I for one am grateful you put forth the effort.