Civ Players Needed - Help Us Please

[kleenestar]

Hello the forums!

I'm posting here because I'm a game researcher, and we're doing some work on Civ. We're looking for people who like to play either SimCity, Civilization, or both (in any version) to take an online survey. Basically, we'll be asking you some questions about your experiences playing these games, to read some text online, and then to answer some questions about the text. All your responses will be confidential, but by participating you'll be helping us figure out just how these games might be useful for playful learning. Bonus: you'll also get a chance to enter a raffle for an Amazon gift certificate!

If you're willing to help us out, please take our survey here: http://geranium.tc.columbia.edu/~website/Survey/video-game-survey.htm.

If you're really excited about helping out, I'd be particularly grateful if you could send this link to any friends you might have who would be interested in participating in game research. Feel free to repost as widely as you like! I'd also appreciate any suggestions of other places to recruit players to participate.

If you have any questions, you can contact me by private message or in this thread, and I'd be happy to answer them (though I'll be out of town for a few days, so I apologize in advance if I'm slow to respond!).

Thanks so much, and I really appreciate your help!

--Jess

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Thread has been approved by Thunderfall.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm taking it now; it is an effort. I've got about 90 minutes into it and I'm not sure I'm half way done. So far it has been very interesting if a bit "schoolish".

 

[Nobody]

Yeah it was nice a easy at the start, im at the part reading the "short" history text. Jeez

 

[Perfection]

I quit halfway through, you really need to warn people about the time investment involved. I'm not willing to put 2 or 3 hours into the damned thing.

 

[King Flevance]

Yeah it was nice a easy at the start, im at the part reading the "short" history text. Jeez

Yeah it was fun until the PDF file came in. The photos are little hard to distinguish for me also. I am taking a break on it so I can come back with a more serious mind. ;P I have it minimized.

 

[ew0054]

I'll check it out

 

[TheBladeRoden]

I made it to page 3

 

[SupremeC]

Wow, the test seems really long. Having such a long test could corrupt the survey restults as the type of people taking the test will be limited to those who are willing to spend such large amounts of time on the test and you won't have a truly random sample.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

If you're really excited about helping out,

Then you need our help.


If this survey takes days to complete, your results are going to be skewed by the fact you only get complete and utter freaks filling it in.


If you have any real questions to ask a hard-core civver (or Sim Citier for that matter), drop me a PM and I'll give succient answers for sure.

 

[Solver]

Of course, we can all start arguing about who is the more hard-core civver .

 

[De Lorimier]

I started it, it was fun! I even made some jokes in my answers, but nothing crazy. Then I said I knew a little bit about urban planning and was quizzed on it. Fine. But I'm not wasting two hours writing on essay on the damn thing. Make it shorter if you want answers.

 

[Cuivienen]

That took forever, but I did it.

 

[IglooDame]

You know, I can play Civ for six hours at a stretch, and I actually enjoy taking tests, but that one is too long for me, sorry.

*wonders if how many game-players exit the test early is one of the things being studied...*

 

[BCLG100]

I'm taking it now; it is an effort. I've got about 90 minutes into it and I'm not sure I'm half way done. So far it has been very interesting if a bit "schoolish".

seeing this post made me not look at it

 

[Bluemofia]

I got bored on the 2nd to last page.

So I skipped it and just finished the thing.

 

[Godwynn]

When I clicked out of the adobe program, i accidentally clicked out of the test site as well.

 

[De Lorimier]

You know, I can play Civ for six hours at a stretch, and I actually enjoy taking tests, but that one is too long for me, sorry.

*wonders if how many game-players exit the test early is one of the things being studied...*

If they put the option there (Exit the survey button), I guess it's true! At least it helps me feeling better about bailing on them mid-test!

 

[YNCS]

I answered the first set of questions. I read the essay on the 15th Century. Then I got rather annoyed with the survey, because they were asking many of the same questions. On several of them, I wrote "previously answered." Then I was asked questions about urban life, which I gave short answers to. Then I was faced with an even longer essay (13 pages instead of 11). At that point, I just skipped to the end of the survey. I spent over an hour and a half answering questions on civilization, I was not going to spend another hour and a half answering questions on urban sprawl.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Maybe the real survey was all about determining the frustration levels for gamers.