RE: It's That Time Again! The 2002 RPG Enhancement Poll

>Pardon me for jumping in, but we already know that most of the items are
desirable to most people.

I still think you will get a skewed representation of what people want if
you do the $ thing.  What if the only enhancements I want are an $80 and a
$30.  Well instead of being able to convey to you that I wanted the $30 I
will have to spend my money on stuff that I may never use, and you would
think that I really wanted it because it made it into my budget.  Of course
I refrain from spending $20 dollars of it, but that would be going against
the principles of being an American, if someone gives you $100 to spend, you
spend it:-)

That is why I would still suggest that you go in an order of least wanted to
most wanted.  I also just want to note that I do appreciate that the
development group takes the time to question us.

Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Morris [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:33 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: It's That Time Again! The 2002 RPG Enhancement Poll


"Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> Why don't we number them from most wanted to least wanted?  So if I really
> want multi-dimensional arrays I would give it a [1].  And I would then
give
> "Keyword TEMPLATE to define DS without allocating storage." a [20],
because
> I don't really have a use for it.
>
> I have the same struggle that everybody else is having.  I would really
like
> to see some of this stuff happen, but if I only get $100 then you may
never
> know that I would really like to see free-form expanded beyond 80
> characters.
>

Pardon me for jumping in, but we already know that most of the items are
desirable to most people.  So we want to know what you want most.  I'm
glad that we managed to set the prices in a way that is forcing you to
choose.

Remember that it's not the individual ballots that we're interested in.
It's the sum of the information in all of them.  If A and B are both
desirable but too expensive to pick together, then chances are that A
will be more desirable for some and B will be more desirable for
others.  If you pick A and thus can't pick B, and then nobody else picks
B, then it wouldn't matter if you had been able to pick B anyway, since
your single pick would have been a faint cry in the wilderness.

Barbara


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