A survey on everything I can think of.

[Xavven]

Excellent! As I was reading through the "Realism in KSP - Various Ideas with Pros/ Cons" thread, I was thinking, "man, someone should really make a poll for each one of these heated topics." And poof, here it is! Well done.

I'm surprised re-entry heat isn't ranked as high by the community, as it's my #1 most important by a huge margin (2nd being aero). That sort of explains why DRE wasn't a top download on the old mod site, pre-Curse. Oh well, to each their own.

[Clockwork_werewolf]

Specific points of note:

People seem more interested in weapons not being in the game than they do better aero being in the game.

People want a better aero model more than having more planets. Seriously, think about that.

Auto-pilot/info systems is surprisingly balanced. I think because everyone wants more info, but many don't want auto pilot. This perhaps should've been split apart.

Life support, despite all its implement-specific arguments here on the forum, seems largely supported as an unspecified element. Almost as evenly supported as DRE.

Thanks for that breakdown. I would have loved to split auto pilots from readouts but I only get 10 sets of questions on the free version of survey monkey (sux I know). Version 2 will also need to include questions about engine ISP (which could be big). Ive done some data breakdown but in a different way to you as variety is the spice of life.

Giant Spreadsheet!

Why did I include weighted dislike?

The idea behind this is that idea that get 3 yes votes and 3 average votes are much less likely to make players stop playing the game than ideas that get 3 yes votes to 1 no vote, that's one player that will be very annoyed.

Why have disparity?

Disparity shows the amount of argument on a subject, for instance "Stock drag but thinner atmosphere" is greatly disliked, but there is a high level of AGREEMENT on how much people dislike it.

I'm sure people will have other questions and disagreements with my style of breakdown. Some parts are arbitrary such as how much to weight dislike to likes.

Edited September 13, 2014 by Clockwork_werewolf

[Clockwork_werewolf]

I'm surprised re-entry heat isn't ranked as high by the community, as it's my #1 most important by a huge margin (2nd being aero). That sort of explains why DRE wasn't a top download on the old mod site, pre-Curse. Oh well, to each their own.

This is one of the reasons why I did the survey and broke it down as below. Re-entry is the third most cared about topic BUT there is a lot of argument on the subject. With weighted dislikes, almost none of the ideas gets positive results. Only "heat shields built into some capsules" gets anywhere near a positive consensus.

[Red Iron Crown]

Looking at your data compilation (nicely done, BTW), it looks like mass/dV readouts, more planets/moons, and floatation parts gathered the most agreement. Not sure how statistically significant such a small and self-selecting sample can be, but it's interesting data nonetheless.

[Clockwork_werewolf]

Not sure how statistically significant such a small and self-selecting sample can be, but it's interesting data nonetheless.

Yea I would love a lot more data, this is a bit too small a sample to make any concrete conclusions. Even I feel like I might be weighting the results a little with my analysis. On the other hand too often people seem to suggest idea's that cause large arguments and I wanted to show that even high scoring answers can be very contentious. Mass readouts in VAB/SHP was the only one to pass unanimously (aside from 3 abstain/no side).

[Serratus]

Try advertising for this survey on other sub-forums. Those results could actually be more important than just a curiosity. I'm surprised the Devs didn't use that tool before. Way better then sifting through hundreds of posts every day. Thank for setting it up.

[Red Iron Crown]

Try advertising for this survey on other sub-forums. Those results could actually be more important than just a curiosity. I'm surprised the Devs didn't use that tool before. Way better then sifting through hundreds of posts every day. Thank for setting it up.

Er, they do use surveys, the most recent one was in the last devnotes. Though I haven't seen an official one regarding future features and I consider it unlikely.

[Clockwork_werewolf]

Unfortunately I think I know why, I'm now capped at 100 results for the free version. Will try and find a better free survey site.

Also the Dev's may not want answers to some questions, things like better Atmo models are a lot of work and (said to be) on the cards but not for now. I did state this as "This is NOT intended as a suggestions board for the Dev's" but it still got moved here anyway.

[Bilfr3d]

I looked at that spreadsheet, and my mind instantly went:

Very nice survey, BTW.

[Clockwork_werewolf]

I looked at that spreadsheet, and my mind instantly went:

Yea I'm officially old (I'm only 29 by the way) I enjoy data analysis.

[magico13]

The disparity of everything regarding rocket build time was very interesting to me (as you can imagine). Seems like some people like it and some people absolutely hate it

[Clockwork_werewolf]

The disparity of everything regarding rocket build time was very interesting to me (as you can imagine). Seems like some people like it and some people absolutely hate it

KSP moddability is a wonderful thing and as your 471 download on curse alone shows even something that has only 1% of the "Strong Likes" (not necessarily an even survey demographic) and 13% moderate likes gets that many downloads on just one of the download sites.

I wanted this survey to argue against the people that seem to assume if you have 80% of the people agreeing with you that it should go into stock. However for mods as they are entirely voluntary, feel free to go against the trends and make hundreds of people happy