Well, I did it. Read through ALL of the entries and carefully picked my personal favorites. I won't lie, it was kinda hard. I love the amount of imagination present in all the entries.

In the end, I voted for 6 factions. 3 votes would be not enough, no way I was able to limit myself to that number. On the other hand, 10 was a bit of an overkill and 6 was just right



EDIT: Wow, it looks like I'm (barely but still) in the top 3. A big pile of "thank you"s to everyone who voted for my faction, you're the best <3

indigav wrote:
Mods...

Is there any way to see the vote without casting it? Not that I'm going to look (I don't think I could stand the pain) but just wondered.

If you meant you want to see the current amount of votes per entry, then yes - it is possible. Click "View poll results" underneath the list. Or follow this link, there made it easy for you.

@Faust, I wouldn't sweat it too much, any voting system is going to have it's flaws and this is just the preliminaries, unless there's some specific reason to suspect malfeasance I think we're safe with the honor system.

indigav wrote:


Mods...

Is there any way to see the vote without casting it? Not that I'm going to look (I don't think I could stand the pain) but just wondered.

If you sign out you can see the totals.

adder wrote:
If you meant you want to see the current amount of votes per entry, then yes - it is possible. Click "View poll results" underneath the list. Or follow this link, there made it easy for you.

But I thought that doing this make it impossible to vote

PANCZASU wrote:
But I thought that doing this make it impossible to vote

Well, for me it doesn't. I have clicked that button quite alot already before voting. (be it in this vote, and others before)

P5ych wrote:
@Faust, I wouldn't sweat it too much, any voting system is going to have it's flaws and this is just the preliminaries, unless there's some specific reason to suspect malfeasance I think we're safe with the honor system.

You're probably right. I think my urge to find systemic flaws borders on the obsessive. lol

I have to admit it's kind of cool to see my submission reach the top 10 during the first day. I was even at top three for a while, which is super awesome!



Thanks to everyone who is voting for me, it's really awesome to see people digging my idea! I'll put in a good word for you all with Great Emperor Pw'll'eth so maybe he'll send you to the Glassteel mines for the rest of your life instead of dining on your sweet, succulent flesh.

No more fluffy amazons please !

hmm i think i wasted my vote too fast. is there a way to change my votes?

MrPeacemaker wrote:
hmm i think i wasted my vote too fast. is there a way to change my votes?

No, there isn't.

DevildogFF wrote:
I will never participate in something like this ever again. It's set up unfairly and favors those at the too and bottom of the list and those that have moderator powers here.



You can take my faction off the list.

I bet you wouldn't be saying that if with the current setup, you were a top dog. And you are just #27 in the list of 99. Guess who is one top dog? #25!!!! Another one? #34!!!



Really.





Oh... wt... I have one vote and it's not mine! Oo Thanks to whoever voted my humble proposal.

DevildogFF wrote:
I will never participate in something like this ever again. It's set up unfairly and favors those at the too and bottom of the list and those that have moderator powers here.



You can take my faction off the list.

Friend, take it easy. Theres no need to despair. Every one of the 99 entrants to the contest have invested emotionally in their proposal. There can only be one winner, and some gems are bound to be overlooked when there are almost 100 submissions to the contest. Let time work it's magic, were only in the first day of voting yet.



My faction has been steadily among the top 6 or so for the entire thing so far, and I am neither a moderator nor a big name on this forum, and my submission is number 48, which is in the middle of the submissions thread. If I can get this farmso early based on nothing but my proposal, then anyone can! I'm sure your submission will get it's recognition further down the line, the voting process is far from over.

Ottopoika wrote:
I take that you mean my faction, as it has been bolded (hope I'm not wrong :l). And just to say it again, since it hasn't been edited in the description, Cievers have cities that are built on land, and can expand to water tiles

OK, but that's still an entire new area that wasn't planned in the general design of the game... and the devs still don't say anything about which of the listed factions can be implemented in the game. It's not a problem with the faction design itself, I just want to know if the devs can decide to exclude a faction after the poll, and what happen if they do so.





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I don't understand why the Cultists are so popular. This is a very cliché faction you can find in almost every sci fi and even fantasy universe/game (and it's redondant with the Sisters of Mercy). Actually you can even find them in historical games. Is that just because it's Nosferatiel's faction? Anyway, I'm really weary to see that type of fanatics in every game... Not every universe needs its own kind of religious fanatics, I think. Even the two leaders give me a strong feeling of dejà-vu. Well, I hate when people's choice are driven by fan-attitude (appropriate word here ), and I think it's partly the case for this faction (only partly, because despite of its evident lack of originality it's still very well written and covers many aspects of the game). I suspect it's because some people just read the short descriptions...

The proposals should have been anonymous and sorted by the devs (which could have lead to fewer factions and/or better developped ones in contest). Not disorderly proposed and listed by a member of the community who proposed his own faction in first (I just figured it now) and wrote the short descriptions for every faction. This looks too much like an amateur rpg forum and I think I'm not the only one to find the way the whole thing is organized a bit untidy in relation with what's in play (we don't only vote for a new ressource or the colour of a spaceship, but for 1/8 of the game). The vote system could also have been better: 99 factions and 10 votes are too much at once (a huge number of choices also promotes the rallying factions, not necessarily the better ones)! As an example, the factions could have been randomly divided into pools:

10 groups of 10 and one group of 9 -> 20 winners (two for each group) -> 3 winners -> 1 winner.

Yeah of course there's "random" in it but it's still better than 99 factions that most people will don't read, except the firsts ones or those whose author is well known.



I know now we can't do anything about it but I feel sad it might unfairly ends with a faction I won't like in game while so many looked interesting or enthusiasting.

Ezumiyr wrote:
OK, but that's still an entire new area that wasn't planned in the general design of the game... and the devs still don't say anything about which of the listed factions can be implemented in the game. It's not a problem with the faction design itself, I just want to know if the devs can decide to exclude a faction after the poll, and what happen if they do so.





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I don't understand why the Cultists are so popular. This is a very cliché faction you can find in almost every sci fi and even fantasy universe/game (and it's redondant with the Sisters of Mercy). Actually you can even find them in historical games. Is that just because it's Nosferatiel's faction? Anyway, I'm really weary to see that type of fanatics in every game... Not every universe needs its own kind of religious fanatics, I think. Even the two leaders give me a strong feeling of dejà-vu. Well, I hate when people's choice are driven by fan-attitude (appropriate word here ), and I think it's partly the case for this faction (only partly, because despite of its evident lack of originality it's still very well written and covers many aspects of the game). I suspect it's because some people just read the short descriptions...

The proposals should have been anonymous and sorted by the devs (which could have lead to fewer factions and/or better developped ones in contest). Not disorderly proposed and listed by a member of the community who proposed his own faction in first (I just figured it now) and wrote the short descriptions for every faction. This looks too much like an amateur rpg forum and I think I'm not the only one to find the way the whole thing is organized a bit untidy in relation with what's in play (we don't only vote for a new ressource or the colour of a spaceship, but for 1/8 of the game). The vote system could also have been better: 99 factions and 10 votes are too much at once (a huge number of choices also promotes the rallying factions, not necessarily the better ones)! As an example, the factions could have been randomly divided into pools:

10 groups of 10 and one group of 9 -> 20 winners (two for each group) -> 3 winners -> 1 winner.

Yeah of course there's "random" in it but it's still better than 99 factions that most people will don't read, except the firsts ones or those whose author is well known.



I know now we can't do anything about it but I feel sad it might unfairly ends with a faction I won't like in game while so many looked interesting or enthusiasting.

Yeah, I have the same feeling. The gameplay idea is nice, but robots with minor factions? I think it would suit ES better, since this is fantasy, not sci-fi, after all. Especially the fact that The Cult is lead by two Endless experiments. It gives me Imperium of Man from WH40K / Covenant from Halo / Aztec vibes. If this was a competition for ES, they would have gotten my vote. Also, what bothers me is that every time I refresh the pool data, he gets at least one vote. "The anonymous creator" idea would have been much better.

Thank you 2 other random strangers who have voted for The Blood Bound.

I'm so happy!!

Wintersong wrote:
Oh... wt... I have one vote and it's not mine! Oo Thanks to whoever voted my humble proposal.

You're welcome!

I seriously think that your faction is under-appreciated and I decided to do something about it. Besides, I like your idea a lot, the only issue I have with your race is the fact that it's humanoid. But since I voted on a lot of non-humanoid races, I thought it's ok if I vote for one bipedal filth

It'll be interesting to see if the voting from now on until the 14th follows the same trend it has so far. I really hope we don't end up in a situation in which there are only two viable choices, and voting for anything else is essentially wasting your vote. Four to eight strong, viable candidates would make the voting process a lot more exciting!



So if you are om the fence, why not let your vote go to The Elders? Divine Emperor Pw'll'eth will be grateful, and will even consider not slurping your delicious brain out through your eye socket!

The problem I see with this system is that a lot of the popular picks are just not viable gameplay wise. They are either not possible or just too niche compared with the other races. Curious what the devs are going to do with this because at the moment I don't really see this as a system that should be used again to decide such a big part of the game, no offense.

The problem I see with this system is that a lot of the popular picks are just not viable gameplay wise. They are either not possible or just too niche compared with the other races. Curious what the devs are going to do with this because at the moment I don't really see this as a system that should be used again to decide such a big part of the game, no offense.

Good point, and the reason I've not yet voted is down to thinking which of these factions could the AI play. Other considerations too, of course

indigav wrote:
Good point, and the reason I've not yet voted is down to thinking which of these factions could the AI play. Other considerations too, of course

That's part of the reason I kept the mechanics in my faction really simple. Heck, one of their downsides is less of a downside for the AI than it is for a human player (not being able to shift workers around; I'm #82). The only thing I proposed in my initial writeup that may have been hard for the AI was a bonus to units that have Minor Faction units adjacent to them.