New Play-Test Server Survey Results

[lordkator]

The team decided to run an in-game survey about launching a new fresh server in response to community discussions.

The survey ran from 12/04 to 12/11, the answers randomized in position, and we tested many macros to ensure they couldn't "accidentally" vote.

In-game, the survey looked like this:



The raw results of the survey are:

Votes	%	Answer
382	36%	I'd play on Basilisk and the new server.
261	25%	I'd play only on the new server.
193	18%	Not sure what I'd do.
159	15%	I'd only play on Basilisk.
48	4%	Don't care.
1043	100%	TOTAL

But of course, everyone like's to see more data:

+-------+-----------+---------+
| Voted | Abstained | % Voted |
+-------+-----------+---------+
|  1043 |        16 |      98 |
+-------+-----------+---------+

And here's a breakdown by days played on Basilisk this year:

+------------------+------+-----------------+----------+---------------+-----------+----------+----------------+
| days_played_2021 | both | only_new_server | not_sure | only_basilisk | dont_care | avg_days | avg_hrs_played |
+------------------+------+-----------------+----------+---------------+-----------+----------+----------------+
| 0-29             |   18 |              22 |       12 |             5 |         7 |        5 |             30 |
| 30-59            |   23 |               9 |       11 |             5 |         0 |       26 |            190 |
| 60-89            |   14 |               7 |       11 |            12 |         2 |       61 |            723 |
| 90-119           |   12 |               9 |        5 |             2 |         3 |       89 |            844 |
| 120-149          |    9 |               7 |        6 |             5 |         0 |      120 |           1058 |
| 150-179          |   11 |               2 |        5 |             8 |         1 |      149 |           2269 |
| 180-209          |   12 |               7 |        6 |             3 |         0 |      181 |           1409 |
| 210-239          |    7 |               9 |        5 |             3 |         0 |      213 |           1481 |
| 240-269          |   11 |              13 |       11 |             6 |         0 |      239 |           1974 |
| 270-299          |   18 |              15 |        3 |             5 |         2 |      269 |           1826 |
| 300-329          |   28 |              20 |        8 |             8 |         3 |      301 |           1216 |
| 330-359          |  198 |              92 |      100 |            93 |        22 |      339 |           3918 |
+------------------+------+-----------------+----------+---------------+-----------+----------+----------------+
| TOTAL            |  382 |             261 |      193 |           159 |        48 |      228 |           2354 |
+------------------+------+-----------------+----------+---------------+-----------+----------+----------------+
NOTE 1: avg_days is calendar time, avg_hrs_played is based on login-logout times (session time)
NOTE 2: Columns don't add perfectly due to how they were bucketed, the actual total is used here for comparison.

I already hear the visual learners saying, "But I want pretty charts!"

Here's what voting looked like over time:



Here are the votes per day:



An area chart:



And for the holidays, everyone loves pie!



Given the above, we've decided to move forward with a new empty server; check out the detailed Q&A here: Q & A for Survey/New Server

We're very excited to engage the community in this way. We've always planned to be more interactive with the community as we near the 1.0 milestone.

This is the first in many steps we see to keep the dialog going while we also pound away at the code and testing needed to move us ever forward!

PS: Before you ask, we validated the data, only one vote per account even if you saw the dialog box multiple times, and we checked for things like ballot stuffing from the same range of IPs. And as you can see above, we also looked at how many people "just dropped by to vote" vs. the "active" player base on Basilisk!