Opinion Poll: Warlords vs. Vanilla

[ice2k4]

This poll is strictly for informational purposes.

There has been a lot of support (which I didn't expect) to use warlords. However since warlords owners can play vanilla, yet vanilla owners (non-warlords) can not play warlords, it is possible for participation to be lower. The point of this poll is to determine whether participation will be significantly lower by using Warlords.

 

[Furius]

hmmm... If the Warlords Player plays the save as DP, won't the result be a saved game that only Warlords players can play anyway?

Like in Civ III, if you played a Vanilla file in conquests it would be saved as a Conquests file anyway...

To avoid that I suppose Warlords players would have to do something like have a seperate vanilla version of civ IV set up as well... Which might be an extra hassle to them, and inevitably someone would forget and we'd be left with a save that only warlords players would be able to play anyway...

If that made any sense...

Anyway, it makes no difference to me... I have only Vanilla, and I don't plan to be a DP (Sounds too stressful to me- It's hard enough playing civ without a whole lot of people in a chat giving you advice)

 

[Methos]

hmmm... If the Warlords Player plays the save as DP, won't the result be a saved game that only Warlords players can play anyway?

They are two totally different games. We can either play vanilla or warlords only. You cannot interchange between the two. Whatever version you start with is the only version you can play.

This poll is strictly for informational purposes.

I'm glad you stated only informational, as I disagree with how the poll was written. But since its informational, it isn't as important how its written.

 

[donsig]

Well, I won't be voting this informational / opinion / useless poll.

 

[Leif]

I would be more active if it were Warlords

 

[Furius]

Well, I won't be voting this informational / opinion / useless poll.

Then you will not aid in determining the overall opinion of the demos... Fair enough, but, if I may ask, do you have an opinion on this matter (You seemed vaguely pro-Warlords in the other thread, but this may have changed)?

 

[donsig]

Then you will not aid in determining the overall opinion of the demos... Fair enough, but, if I may ask, do you have an opinion on this matter (You seemed vaguely pro-Warlords in the other thread, but this may have changed)?

I will aid in determining the actual decision when we actually get around to actually deciding.

I am happy to post my opinion. I prefer warlords with the HoF mod.

 

[jimkatalanos]

I voted I would not participate in the DemoGame at all. I don't have warlords.

 

[Methos]

I voted I would not participate in the DemoGame at all. I don't have warlords.

Just to clarify, you don't actually need the game to play. The DP and officials should post all the necessary screenshots for us citizens to examine, therefore not requiring us to load the save.

As I recall when DG I started some of the citizens didn't even have nor did they know the changes, but that didn't stop them from playing.

 

[Love]

Warlords is better, and i think those who dont have it is just lurkers and they will
understand it after a while. I would love that whith UB and vassals and co

 

[jimkatalanos]

Yes, I know that but I would like to load the save.

 

[Love]

Yeah... But if... I still think warlords is better...

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Woops...voted for the wrong option.

This poll had terrible wording.

"I would not be as active as if we used Vanilla." means "If we use Vanilla, I won't as active.", not to mention "as active as if" is poor grammar. Why would it be: I prefer Warlords, I don't care, I prefer Vanilla??

 

[jimkatalanos]

I agree that it's better.

 

[ice2k4]

Woops...voted for the wrong option.

This poll had terrible wording.

"I would not be as active as if we used Vanilla." means "If we use Vanilla, I won't as active.", not to mention "as active as if" is poor grammar. Why would it be: I prefer Warlords, I don't care, I prefer Vanilla??

Sorry about that, really couldn't think of a good way to word it. Either way the poll results don't even mean much, there just to get a feel of how participation levels might change if we decide to use warlords.

 

[Love]

ok, so shall Daveshack change it or are we just leaving it like this?

 

[donsig]

Sorry about that, really couldn't think of a good way to word it. Either way the poll results don't even mean much, there just to get a feel of how participation levels might change if we decide to use warlords.

There is no purpose in posting a poll when the poll results don't mean much. Participation levels will depend on much more than wether we use warlords or not.

Please post a propsed poll in the proper discussion thread before posting an actual poll. That way you can get input about wording and such.

 

[DaveShack]

ok, so shall Daveshack change it or are we just leaving it like this?

We can just leave this one. It will generate some information, and our budding new philosophy, should we choose to accept it, is to replace a bad poll by posting a new one.

 

[donsig]

We can just leave this one. It will generate some information, and our budding new philosophy, should we choose to accept it, is to replace a bad poll by posting a new one.

That's only part of the philosophy. Another part is that if no option actually gets a majority of the votes then no decision has been made. Another part is that if there is a majority choice it is binding until a subsequent poll is completed.

 

[ice2k4]

Another part is that if there is a majority choice it is binding until a subsequent poll is completed.

Except this poll can't be binding. It's strictly informational.