Posted 03 December 2010 - 22:59
Penfold83, I can see why HCS would have both a poll and a discussion.
HCS is a business, like any business it must satisfy customer needs and desires or it will not have the customers. The polls give general feelings of the customers at large. The forum gives specific feedback, ideas, and complaints about new updates or proposed updates. That is just as critical.
FS at least is definitely not a bleeding edge game, there are no 3D graphics, battles are not in real time, creatures do not attack you unless you attack them first, and the list goes on.
What HCS does well, and I believe it is the primary reason for not allowing multiple characters (MC) is it forces the game to be social. To be honest I would have quit LONG ago except for my friends here. And yes, some are even PvP players, some that have even attacked multiple times, I consider friends. I do not know of any of the wiz-bang games that do social playing as well as FS. (No, I have not tried any other HCS games, I live on a fixed pension and cannot afford another game that costs like this one has.)
Maybe forcing to read the update description is wise, and MC are are problem. Players with MC could alter the results of the vote but you are assuming not only would the player vote their MC one way, but that all the people with MC would vote the same way. In truth they will probably be a wash unless the vote comes down to a few hundred. As to requiring reading, a MC player would still be able to vote their MC as a block, the player goes to the forum reads once, decides how they vote, votes, then has each additional character vote the same way. No difference from MC voting this time except they have to do one additional step, click on the forum subject.
The only way to control MC voting would be to require reading and then random selection of words through the text like "What is the word that follows 'If the target players level is '" with at least 10 or 15 randomly selected questions you could not have any control on the multies. I do not think anyone would bother voting then.
As to paying 25 reserve stamina for a vote, if they desire. It is one extra battle for me.