Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-12T17:21:43+02:00

this is really solid work!

good job softly!

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 12 Nov 2016, 17:21

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-12T02:14:29+02:00

https://vote.faforever.com/

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 12 Nov 2016, 02:14

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-11T17:04:24+02:00

Exotic_Retard wrote:
Softly wrote:* I'm sure there's space for a "baby" joke here

9 softles cant make a voting system in 1 month?

1 Softles can make his baby in 2 days (with some help along the way https://github.com/HardlySoftly/softvot ... ntributors , and consulting from downlord)

The app is now completely FAF server compatible, just waiting on someone to move it across and a councillor (Zock) to open the voting. I am looking forward to casting my votes* later today.

* you get to vote on balance now as well!

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 11 Nov 2016, 17:04

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-11T16:27:42+02:00

well, FAF doesn't have 9 Softles'.

Statistics: Posted by Lieutenant Lich — 11 Nov 2016, 16:27

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-11T16:14:53+02:00

Softly wrote:
* I'm sure there's space for a "baby" joke here

9 softles cant make a voting system in 1 month?

Statistics: Posted by Exotic_Retard — 11 Nov 2016, 16:14

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-11T11:38:20+02:00

Actually, this is the first I've heard that visionik has even been around the last few days, let alone trying to get voting started.

I went and made this voting app since I was sick of the PC vote being perpetually put off, and Zock mentioned offhand that he would run it if there was a way to vote (thought I'd call his bluff).

I spent 7 hours making and debugging this thing yesterday, so the last thing I want is for my time to be pinned to yet another reason for the voting being delayed. By my count, I've got another 9 months* before I'm overdue on delivering my promises. If someone had wanted something like this 6 months ago, then they should have asked for it 6 months ago.

There is work ongoing right now to move my app to the "official" FAF server. If this doesn't happen by the end of today, I'm just going to propose we run it from the cloud on the VM I procured (where it was working fine).

* I'm sure there's space for a "baby" joke here

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 11 Nov 2016, 11:38

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-11T01:58:59+02:00

A bit more info; visionik has a small program he wrote a while back he thought he'd be able to use to make this vote happen, but on closer investigation it wasn't able to do the job. Hence the big rush and massive help from softly to get a voting app up ASAP

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 11 Nov 2016, 01:58

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-11T01:16:51+02:00

I've been working on a plan to get the voting started, and I can say that one way or another voting will begin in the next couple of days, so just hold on a little longer.

There's a few issues right now porting the voting app I wrote to the FAF server, but it should probably be sorted sometime tomorrow.

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 11 Nov 2016, 01:16

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-10T11:22:23+02:00

I'm not even disappointed, since that requires some expectations, which I didn't have to begin with.

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 10 Nov 2016, 11:22

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-09T11:30:32+02:00

Zock wrote:
The day just started in America. Can't we wait until it's over at least?

I like your optimism, but I was kinda right, sadly. Let me repeat the OP in a different way:

visionik wrote:
Voting will then begin on Tuesday, November 8th and certainly be the most important election occurring on that day

that would be yesterday. I hope it is not delayed into the far future (soonTM).

Maybe it is also possible to start the nominations and get the process going for the other open positions (it is quite ridiculous that they are vacant for such a long time already)?

Statistics: Posted by CookieNoob — 09 Nov 2016, 11:30

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-09T04:16:13+02:00

I feel like the vote for PC thru the client is going to be entirely based on popularity contest which could make the results rather displeasing. EvilDrew hosts games that are popular among people so it may just go his way simply for that reason as opposed to the people on the message board who spend way more time dissecting and thinking about the critical points.

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 09 Nov 2016, 04:16

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-09T01:03:26+02:00

indeed, forum is pretty dead. having said that its perfectly trivial to start a poll on whats new page at this moment. only thing stopping me is the possible fallout over "e clan power tripping" xD

Statistics: Posted by Exotic_Retard — 09 Nov 2016, 01:03

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-09T00:51:42+02:00

Publicity. If it's in the client way more people will see it and enough of them will start being interested. The vote can link or quote to the people so they can form their opinion. Zep did some votes in the client that had way more participation than any forum poll ever had.

Statistics: Posted by Zock — 09 Nov 2016, 00:51

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-08T23:54:26+02:00

Zock wrote:
The message board is a) only used by less than 1% of FAF players and b) very easy to manipulate

That's also why there hasn't been a vote about the direction of balance yet.

Fair point on the manipulation part, but what on Earth makes you think people are going to have any idea who to vote for or why or care if they have not been reading the message boards to begin with?

Statistics: Posted by Morax — 08 Nov 2016, 23:54

Re: Vote for Player Councilor

2016-11-08T23:47:06+02:00

Zock wrote:
Morax wrote:
What is so hard about that? Perhaps there are bigger plans to use a system other than the message board but I just don't understand why that would happen.

The message board is a) only used by less than 1% of FAF players and b) very easy to manipulate

That's also why there hasn't been a vote about the direction of balance yet.

That makes a lot of sense. But in that case why not have the new system in place before announcing dates.
There's nothing on the client either, besides a news from 30/10.

Even if a voting system suddenly appear on the client, it won't solve the "less than 1% consult the message board" issue, as the manifestos are all here anyway, with no quick and easy way to reach them from the client.

Statistics: Posted by Zoram — 08 Nov 2016, 23:47