Shadow Empire Poll #1
Activity
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Responses |
1. How would you rate Shadow Empire?
Excellent | 58.7% |
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390 |
Good | 37.8% |
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251 |
Okay | 3% |
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20 |
Mediocre | 0.3% |
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2 |
Disappointing | 0.2% |
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1 |
Total respondents | 664 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 4 |
4. How does the speed of the graphics and the user-interface feel on your system? Like time for a window or tab to open, to scroll the map, to get hexes highlighted for moving range of a unit... Do NOT include the speed of the AI in your answer!
Feels fast | 37% |
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245 |
Feels okay | 41.2% |
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273 |
Feels a bit on the slow side, but not annoying | 15.4% |
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102 |
Feels a bit slow | 4.4% |
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29 |
Really too slow | 2% |
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13 |
Don't know | 0.2% |
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1 |
Total respondents | 663 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
5. How does the speed of an average AI turn feel on your system? (in an average kind of game you like to play - do not overthink this question)
Feels fast | 6.6% |
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44 |
Feels okay | 34.6% |
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230 |
Feels a bit on the slow side, but not annoying | 32.8% |
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218 |
Feels a bit slow | 16% |
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106 |
Really too slow | 9.3% |
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62 |
Don't know | 0.6% |
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4 |
Total respondents | 664 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 4 |
6. What kind of Planet sizes do you play most of the time?
Moons and Planetoids | 0.9% |
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6 |
Small Planets | 19.7% |
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131 |
Medium Planets | 33.3% |
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221 |
Large Planets | 28.2% |
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187 |
Varied | 15.7% |
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104 |
Don't know | 2.3% |
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15 |
Total respondents | 664 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 4 |
7. What speed do you have the AI set to?
Fast | 27.1% |
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180 |
Slow | 32% |
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212 |
Very Slow | 18.4% |
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122 |
Don't know | 22.5% |
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149 |
Total respondents | 663 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
8. Whats your approximate desktop screen resolution ?
4K or higher | 8.3% |
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55 |
Between 4K and HD | 23.4% |
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155 |
HD (1920x1280) or close | 60.8% |
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403 |
Lower than HD | 5% |
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33 |
Don't know | 2.6% |
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17 |
Total respondents | 663 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
9. Do you play Shadow Empire in your desktop screen resolution?
Yes | 89.7% |
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595 |
No, I lower the resolution by changing the resolution through in-game prefs | 3.3% |
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22 |
No, I lower the resolution by changing the DPI through in-game prefs.. 125%, 150% or 175% | 4.4% |
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29 |
No, I lower the resolution by changing the DPI through in-game prefs... 200% | 0.6% |
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4 |
I don't know | 2% |
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13 |
Total respondents | 663 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
10. How many CPU cores does your processor have?
1 | 1.2% |
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8 |
2 | 5.7% |
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38 |
4 | 30.6% |
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203 |
6 | 19.2% |
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127 |
8 | 26.2% |
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174 |
10 or more | 6.8% |
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45 |
Don't know | 10.3% |
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68 |
Total respondents | 663 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
11. How much fun (or not) are you having with the mechanics listed here?
Really fun | Fun | Average | Not fun | Don't know | ||||||||||||
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Moving and attacking with your military units |
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616 | ||||||||||
Upgrading troops and replacement troops, orders of battles, HQ assignments |
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612 | ||||||||||
Supply and logistics and its management |
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618 | ||||||||||
Zone management, Asset construction, Mining |
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615 | ||||||||||
Decisions, events and stories |
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616 | ||||||||||
Leaders and factions |
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613 | ||||||||||
Your regime profile and its feats |
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607 | ||||||||||
Stratagem cards |
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612 | ||||||||||
Budget and organisational councils |
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616 | ||||||||||
Air forces in general |
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614 | ||||||||||
Alien critters and natives |
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620 | ||||||||||
Exploration (full shrowded planet) |
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616 | ||||||||||
Research and the tech tree |
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615 | ||||||||||
Designing new models |
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618 | ||||||||||
Planet generation |
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618 | ||||||||||
Building roads |
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617 | ||||||||||
Story module: Cults |
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616 | ||||||||||
Story module: Crime Syndicate |
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617 | ||||||||||
Story module: Corporation |
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617 | ||||||||||
Total respondents | 621 | |||||||||||||||
Respondents who skipped this question | 9 |
13. Did you see Pymous' his Stratagem Card mod? If so what do you think of this mod's graphics?
No did not see them | 28.8% |
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180 |
Yes, I think they are better than the regular Stratagem cards | 40.3% |
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252 |
Yes, I think they are different, not worse, nor better. | 22.4% |
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140 |
Yes, I think they are worse than the regular Stratagem cards | 4.2% |
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26 |
Don't know | 4.3% |
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27 |
Total respondents | 625 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
14. What would you say If I would remove the current supply & logistics completely and replace it for something super easy but less deep...
Great idea, the logistics are horribly difficult to play with right now | 3.5% |
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22 |
If it is optional to keep using the current systems, why not? | 30.1% |
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188 |
No you should not dumb down the logistics systems | 52.5% |
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328 |
Other, please specify | 13.9% |
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87 |
Total respondents | 625 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
15. On which kind of graphics would you like to see more variation applied?
Leader portraits | 13.5% |
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84 |
Trooptype models (infantry, tanks) | 25.4% |
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158 |
Map art (the hexes) | 27% |
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168 |
Landscape type illustrations | 6.6% |
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41 |
Regime flags | 9.3% |
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58 |
Don't know | 8.3% |
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52 |
Other, please specify | 10% |
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62 |
Total respondents | 623 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 7 |
16. What do you think the developer (Vic) should work on next? Note that you can only select 4 rows (one for highest prio, one for second, one for third, one for fourth)
Highest priority (4) | Second priority (3) | Third priority (2) | Fourth priority (1) | Average | ||||||||||
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Bigger oceans and naval systems (probably area based) |
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3.00 | 375 | ||||||||
More regime profiles and political systems & events once you get to a certain size (abundance rules for increasing difficulty) |
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2.25 | 185 | ||||||||
More rich tapestry of human minor and major cultures |
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2.25 | 209 | ||||||||
Much deeper trade systems and more varied items |
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2.26 | 271 | ||||||||
Extreme Fog of War rules (hiding like the stats of Leaders of tank models) |
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1.95 | 42 | ||||||||
Better AI for the current systems |
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2.98 | 251 | ||||||||
Faster AI for the current systems |
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2.96 | 197 | ||||||||
Hardware accelerated map drawing (scroll & unit select speed) |
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2.51 | 78 | ||||||||
Stratagems galore! (many extra Stratagems) |
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2.25 | 83 | ||||||||
Adventure expansion (leader mini adventures, like text adventures) |
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2.13 | 96 | ||||||||
Player in-game character (you are abstract inside the game at the moment) |
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2.01 | 84 | ||||||||
Below decks expansion fleshing out the personal life and holdings of your leaders |
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1.96 | 105 | ||||||||
Weather, biosphere&atmosphere events, terraforming |
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2.52 | 300 | ||||||||
A way to have more fun playing on planet without AI majors (shadow story maybe?) |
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2.35 | 83 | ||||||||
More customization options (of uniforms, flags, ranks, etc..) |
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2.18 | 126 | ||||||||
Total respondents | 625 | |||||||||||||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |
18. If you could only choose between 2 options for Shadow Empire future development, which one would you choose?
Improve the existing features! | 55.1% |
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345 |
Add exciting new features! | 44.9% |
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281 |
Total respondents | 626 | ||
Respondents who skipped this question | 4 |
19. What should have the highest priority for improvement?
Highest priority (4) | Second priority (3) | Third priority (2) | Fourth priority (1) | Average | ||||||||||
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The reaction speed of the user interface (map scrolling / clicking, tab/window opening. unit moving) |
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2.38 | 53 | ||||||||
The speed of the turn processing and AI turns |
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2.88 | 162 | ||||||||
The quality of the AI moves |
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2.88 | 192 | ||||||||
The quality and grammar of the writing |
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1.71 | 56 | ||||||||
More advice topics (small popup window) |
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2.06 | 52 | ||||||||
More help topics (reps tab) |
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2.33 | 39 | ||||||||
The interface for designing models |
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2.65 | 196 | ||||||||
The rules for diplomacy should be improved |
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2.36 | 175 | ||||||||
The rules for logistics and supplies should be improved |
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2.50 | 139 | ||||||||
The rules for logistics and supplies should be made much more simple |
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2.39 | 28 | ||||||||
General quality assurance to window design (there are some really ugly ones) |
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2.20 | 133 | ||||||||
Less clutter and confusion in some screens |
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2.47 | 128 | ||||||||
Total respondents | 342 | |||||||||||||
Respondents who skipped this question | 5 |