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Southern Journal Presents - The In-Game Improvement Survey Results
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In-Game Improvement Survey Resutls

So, as you may have been aware, the Ministry of Regional Affairs recently produced a survey for the In-Game region asking seven simple questions to gauge involvement and to determine what actions might be taken to best improve the In-Game region for those who would use it most and get the most out of it.  The survey ran for four days from late on Wednesday the 14th December through to Sunday 18th December and received a total of thirty-one fascinating responses.

The first six questions were designed to gauge the level of involvement of those responding and also get a sense of their preference for how the polling system is used.  The last question allowed respondents the chance to write as much as they liked on how they thought we could best improve the In-Game region.  Together, despite the small sample size, they paint a sometimes surprising, but reasonably clear picture of what the interests of the In-Game region actually are.  So, without further ado, let me present the results of the first six questions, with some commentary.

The first three questions were on the RMB: how often it was visited and posted upon by respondents and how they rated their experience there.


As you can see the vast majority of our respondents, over two-thirds in fact, were daily visitors to the RMB and a similar percentage posted on it at least once a week.  The sample size may be small, but these are regulars and their opinion is valuable.


Whilst the majority of respondents rated their experience with a score of six or more, the average from these data is only 6.5%.  That tells me that we're only doing okay.  There is plenty of room for improvement here.

The next three questions were about polls: how often respondents voted in them, what types of polls they prefer and whether or not the type of poll affects their likelihood of voting.


Just under two-thirds of respondents said they voted in more than half of all polls.  They are active poll users, if not as active as on the RMB itself.  Again this suggests room for improvement.


Here we can see that the largest group of respondents had no particular preference in the type of polls they were given to vote upon, but this still accounts for less than half of all respondents.  A majority of respondents had some kind of preference but disagreed over what kind that should be.  The smallest group by a large margin was those who preferred polls posted by the Local Council on regional legal matters, whereas the two options allowing for polls on other topics accounted for the same percentage of respondents as had no preference at all.

This question is probably the most flawed of the survey, with what is probably an incomplete set of options to choose from, but as a general measure of the mood of the in-game region, it strongly suggests to me that the respondents are much more interested in doing their own thing than taking part in the franchise and voting on our region's laws.  The large number of no preference respondents could be considered an argument against that, but their very ambivalence prevents that from being a particularly strong argument in favour of greater legal involvement for the In-Game community.

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The largest group in this pie chart is the 'Yes' group of respondents, although not by a very large margin.  Combined with those who might consider voting more often if their preferred type of polls appeared more often, however, there is a strong argument to be made here that greater involvement and a better In-Game experience would be had if we tailored polls (and, by extension, all In-Game activities) to the target audience, being In-Game players, not necessarily involved in the forum and it's activities.

Unfortunately, there's not an easy way to graphically display the results for the last question as respondents replied with answers of varying length, some of which were mini-essays and some of which were deliberate attempts not to answer the question (which tells us something of their apathy in of itself).  You can read them all in the full results spreadsheet below, but I'd like to pick out a few general themes that can be seen across the responses.

Firstly there were a relatively large number of respondents who either avoided answering the question, or gave deliberately silly answers (e.g. 'I don't know', '.', or 'FREE COOKIES!!!').  This suggests either apathy or satisfaction, but the ratings given above do not strongly suggest satisfied game-siders.  Instead, I get a picture of a community that largely avoids seriousness and structure and is mostly there just to have its own kind of fun, especially in the form of 'more polls' and 'fun stuff'.  This is backed up by other comments, including, 'Stop bringing forum stuff onto gameside. Polls on legislation is for the forum. No one wants that boring stuff here' and 'Remove all the politics from it'.  The community, when it wants to be vocal, is largely in favour of keeping the In-Game community separate from the forums and the legislature.

This is not to say there are not comments that suggest better integration between the two.  One lengthy answer talks of the barriers to involvement caused by having our government on the other side of a separate sign-in.  Another speaks about how good it is that players who like politics can find ways to advance to that.

Of course, this analysis is just brushing the surface and there's much more that could be done with the data than I have time for here.  Not least, there are lots of little suggestions here and there that all merit being listened to and I want to assure you that the integration team will be working on ways to introduce those improvements as and when we can.  In the meantime, I present the full data set for your to peruse at your leisure.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.  Feel free to add your comments below.
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Having looked over the actual data, I find your conclusions to be rather compromised. For example, the response "Remove all the politics from it." comes from someone who, by their own admission, never reads the RMB, never posts on the RMB and never votes in polls. Eliminating that response for the obvious reason, we have exactly two respondents who want less politics on the RMB and two who want more politics on the RMB, with the rest either not commenting on this topic or expressing overall satisfaction with the current situation. The actual data doesn't reflect your analysis at all.

In addition to this, I find the fifth question and your analysis based upon it to be deeply compromised; to put it simply, what percentage of people on these forums do you imagine would say that voting in the Assembly is their favourite part, ahead of (for example) Roleplay or Spam Games?

In contrast to this survey and your analysis of it, when directly polled regional WA members have responded that they would like more political say in how the region is governed on five separate occasions.
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"No preference" doesn't equal "overall satisfaction." What these results show is a decided lack of enthusiasm or even cursory interest in regional governance as it happens on the forum.
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