D4n Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Follow-up poll to the 2021 poll. https://strawpoll.com/e2nar8mbpgB DCS Wishlist: 2K11 Krug SA-4 Ganef SAM, VR-TrackIR icons next to player names in score-chart PvP: 100+ manual player-kills with Stingers on a well known dynamic campaign server - 100+ VTOL FARP landings & 125+ hours AV-8B, F-14 crew, royal dutch airforce F-16C - PvP campaigns since 2013 DCS server-admins: please adhere to a common sense gaming industry policy as most server admins throughout the industry do. (After all there's enough hostility on the internet already which really doesn't help anyone. Thanks.) Dell Visor VR headset, Ryzen 5 5600 (6C/12T), RTX 2060 - basic DCS-community rule-of-thumb: Don't believe bad things that a PvP pilot claims about another PvP pilot without having analyzed the existing evidence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razo+r Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Hmm, why did you opt for an external poll and not one directly here in the forum? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4n Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 (edited) 1 hour ago, razo+r said: Hmm, why did you opt for an external poll and not one directly here in the forum? Because I thought these 2 features are useful. Edited February 15 by D4n DCS Wishlist: 2K11 Krug SA-4 Ganef SAM, VR-TrackIR icons next to player names in score-chart PvP: 100+ manual player-kills with Stingers on a well known dynamic campaign server - 100+ VTOL FARP landings & 125+ hours AV-8B, F-14 crew, royal dutch airforce F-16C - PvP campaigns since 2013 DCS server-admins: please adhere to a common sense gaming industry policy as most server admins throughout the industry do. (After all there's enough hostility on the internet already which really doesn't help anyone. Thanks.) Dell Visor VR headset, Ryzen 5 5600 (6C/12T), RTX 2060 - basic DCS-community rule-of-thumb: Don't believe bad things that a PvP pilot claims about another PvP pilot without having analyzed the existing evidence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98abaile Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Are you really that worried about a significant number of forum users having multiple accounts? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art-J Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 If anyone wants to cheat by "mulitplying" himself, he can do it on external site without much hassle by using his PC, PC at work and his phone, for example. 3 different IPs. There's no registration required on strawpoll, is it? Seems like a poll here would be more "secure" then. 1 i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXsenna Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 LOL! Tor browser. Just sayin'! Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharpeXB Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Surveys on this Forum tend to produce skewed results since it’s a sampling of enthusiasts and not the overall player base. ED has stated that the split in this game is about 90% SP. 3 i9-14900KS | ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO | 64GB DDR5 5600MHz | iCUE H150i Liquid CPU Cooler | 24GB GeForce RTX 4090 | Windows 11 Home | 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe | Corsair RM1000x | LG 48GQ900-B 4K OLED Monitor | CH Fighterstick | Ch Pro Throttle | CH Pro Pedals | TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 ED's analytics in this matter are perfectly capable of producing at least as skewed results easily. Regardless of that, the usefulness of such a poll, no matter how it is conducted, is minute at best. I for one definitely am not going to follow obscure links for such silliness. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diego999 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 External links? Yeah, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slippa Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Maybe this is a type of subliminal poll. Set up to count how many posts there would be from us lot going “eh? Nah” and moving on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharpeXB Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 (edited) 17 hours ago, Kang said: ED's analytics in this matter are perfectly capable of producing at least as skewed results easily. How so? I imagine they’re looking directly at telemetry from the game itself. Devs can and should be able to tell what anyone is doing with a game that’s persistently connected online even in SP. This particular stat would be very important information for them. Edited February 17 by SharpeXB 1 i9-14900KS | ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO | 64GB DDR5 5600MHz | iCUE H150i Liquid CPU Cooler | 24GB GeForce RTX 4090 | Windows 11 Home | 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe | Corsair RM1000x | LG 48GQ900-B 4K OLED Monitor | CH Fighterstick | Ch Pro Throttle | CH Pro Pedals | TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 I would imagine so, too, but having access to that data and actually taking something useful from it are two separate problems. Who all do you count? Literally everyone? Accounts with a certain total number of hours? Accounts active within a specific previous timespan? I'd assume the results vary quite wildly depending on this simple question alone. The fact that the old '90% SP' stat has never been elaborated or updated, and historically was mostly thrown around at times when people quite loudly demanded multiplayer issues to be fixed, made it very convenient. Include all accounts that tried out DCS and never even played it beyond looking at the Su-25T for an hour - there you got thousands of people who are exclusively SP. Just a simple example. While I can't think of one off the top of my head, I am sure you can easily find the opposite, too. You are absolutely right that it is an interesting information to the marketing department of ED, but I have serious doubts that the insights that got shared about this are very accurate and even less current. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharpeXB Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Kang said: The fact that the old '90% SP' stat has never been elaborated or updated Here’s the answer straight from ED, it’s the first question asked. There are all sorts of ways they can make use of the data they get, I’m sure they know how to interpret it. The response that 90% of the players never go online I’m sure means exactly that. 1 i9-14900KS | ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO | 64GB DDR5 5600MHz | iCUE H150i Liquid CPU Cooler | 24GB GeForce RTX 4090 | Windows 11 Home | 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe | Corsair RM1000x | LG 48GQ900-B 4K OLED Monitor | CH Fighterstick | Ch Pro Throttle | CH Pro Pedals | TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 On 2/17/2024 at 11:56 PM, SharpeXB said: Here’s the answer straight from ED, it’s the first question asked. There are all sorts of ways they can make use of the data they get, I’m sure they know how to interpret it. The response that 90% of the players never go online I’m sure means exactly that. Sorry I haven't been back for so long, I've had a few rather busy weeks, sadly. Still, thank you very much, I hadn't seen that at all, so I do stand corrected, especially about my believe that said statistics haven't even been touched on for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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