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Formerly Joy

Formerly Joy

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I've added my vote to the survey. I will add my 2 pennies to this thread again. Banks are a place that every player must utilize. Almost every bank includes multiple booths with multiple bankers. Maybe it's time for The Bank of Runescape to fire a Bank Teller or 2 and replace them with a new Poll Conductor?

Honestly, 4 (or whatever the number may be) identically dressed bankers just lifelessly stand there. I only need 1. If you replace 1 of these Bankers with a new Poll Conductor...it harms absolutely no one and adds some much needed convenience to the game. I get surveying and finalizing ideas, but no idea why something this brilliant and harmless should even be polled.

I'm sure it will pass, regardless.

28-Jul-2014 15:03:47

Mod Ash

Mod Ash

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Formerly Joy said :
I will add my 2 pennies to this thread again...

I had a read through your comments on the first page.

If in-game polls happen - and I reckon they will, even if there's support for keeping the website poll form available too - I think they'll be a good opportunity to fix some of the problems.

By posting links in the questions to relevant bits of the blogs, we can (hopefully) get more people to understand what they're voting about. Plus we could link to pictures, etc.

We may even be able to let people go back to change their votes while the poll's still open. I'm not guaranteeing that for now, but I'm hoping it'll prove possible. That'd solve the frequent complaints from people who change their opinions but can't do anything about it. (Of course, we might also want to poll that before enabling it.)

If the 75% threshold is coming up for debate, I think it'd warrant its own blog and a much wider consultation, so I'm not going to try addressing it here.

Formerly Joy said :
Lately, I have noticed every content piece be overly hyped in an attempt to create a interest among the community. Dev Blogs, Hyped up twitter, Twitch streams and Q&A's, multiple Surveys and Polls! This may be because of how harsh we bash every piece of content.

I wouldn't call it "overly hyped".

We run surveys and polls to find out what we should be working on.
We write blogs to tell you what we're doing.
We run Q&As to answer questions about what we did, and what we're doing next.

This isn't hype. This is the bare minimum required to operate a community-driven game.

28-Jul-2014 15:20:31 - Last edited on 28-Jul-2014 15:21:13 by Mod Ash

Lewis Shoot
Oct Member 2005

Lewis Shoot

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I quite like the idea of the towncriers and other new agents being used for in game polls, i was getting worried that we'd have to have a bit pop up like squeal is in rs3.
Maybe we can get news papers from the people who take our votes and whenever a new vote is up the newspaper will glow or something, basically keep the newspaper in the bank and when you see it glowing you know there is a new poll and you have to travel to the town crier.

I like it :)
RIP Forums :(
Finally we have signatures in the surprise forum update. I'm Lewis, I play Old School & I've been playing since 2005.

28-Jul-2014 15:39:49

Formerly Joy

Formerly Joy

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Thank you Ash. I think this is excellent! It can be frustrating to see a question you don't understand and not have a neutral option; this may result in a no! So i'm glad you have the opportunity to tackle this head on. As for utilizing an in-game poll system with an edit option, this is brilliant. I can't comprehend the amount of work that puts on you and the team. The community is thankful.

I apologize if I upset at all by my copy/paste post. As I stated, I posted this argument elsewhere in less than 10 minutes. Truly not my best work. I love the dedicated work of the OSRS team. The Dev Blogs, social media, streams, surveys and Q&A are all great and necessary. The big upset on my side is understanding the work you guys put into these things that the game needs. Time is the most valuable thing we have on earth. When you spend so much time building and hyping these updates only to fail a poll, it truly is an upset.

I follow the decisions of the staff. You've all done a great job. I do hope to see a 75% poll discussion in the future, but wouldn't hold it against the team if it slipped by. Although, I think it may be in the games "best interest." Not my own: I am not offended by any of the past polls. Thanks for getting back to me. ^_^

28-Jul-2014 15:41:02 - Last edited on 28-Jul-2014 15:41:26 by Formerly Joy

1uz 6 speed
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1uz 6 speed

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Formerly Joy said :
I've added my vote to the survey. I will add my 2 pennies to this thread again. Banks are a place that every player must utilize. Almost every bank includes multiple booths with multiple bankers. Maybe it's time for The Bank of Runescape to fire a Bank Teller or 2 and replace them with a new Poll Conductor?


I like the idea of replacing one of the banker by a poll conductor. perhaps when you click on him instead of opening the bank it opens a bank-like interface but instead of your bank, its the "polling center" where theres 2 tabs: the 1st tab is for the current poll and the 2nd tab is to see poll history ?

would look great without changing the way OSRS looks!

28-Jul-2014 16:06:34

FriskyDingo
Jun Member 2019

FriskyDingo

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Mod Ash said :
Poll requirements

The requirement to vote in polls is currently a skill total of 280 on a member account. The website poll system knows your membership status, and it knows your skill total, but it doesn't know anything else. Players have often suggested that we change the requirements to include other data; suggestions included combinations of skill total, quest points, recent in-game time, variety of items in the bank, and more besides. However we've always had to say no, since the website didn't support any of these things. But the game does.

If we were to launch in-game polls, and players were then willing for us to remove the website poll system, it would become possible to apply requirements like this sort of thing to the in-game poll menu. Naturally we wouldn't go changing the requirements unless you asked us to, but at the moment we can't even offer you the option.

Disgusting. More voter disenfranchisement is what this says to me. Anyone who plays OSRS should be able to vote IN ALL POLLS regardless if they're a level 3 skiller, or a fully maxed main.

I'm appalled that you've even listened to the ideas of the group of players in this game who want more restrictions on voting because they somehow believe it will lead to certain poll questions going in their favor.

Disgusting.

28-Jul-2014 16:13:06

Formerly Joy

Formerly Joy

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1uz 6 speed said :
Formerly Joy said :
I've added my vote to the survey. I will add my 2 pennies to this thread again. Banks are a place that every player must utilize. Almost every bank includes multiple booths with multiple bankers. Maybe it's time for The Bank of Runescape to fire a Bank Teller or 2 and replace them with a new Poll Conductor?


I like the idea of replacing one of the banker by a poll conductor. perhaps when you click on him instead of opening the bank it opens a bank-like interface but instead of your bank, its the "polling center" where theres 2 tabs: the 1st tab is for the current poll and the 2nd tab is to see poll history ?

would look great without changing the way OSRS looks!


This idea is beginning to shape up. It's a concept. I dislike the idea of overly cramming the option/tool tab or adding buttons on the mini-map. I have no gripe against adding Town Criers all over Runescape, but it may look a bit tacky in my opinion. Adding polls to banks is very convenient and does not take any space out of the game. Simply replace 1 banker with a Poll Conductor. I like the idea to have a similar bank interface :P

28-Jul-2014 16:22:26

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