Posted - 2011.07.23 11:36:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Trebor Daehdoow on 01/08/2011 14:33:45

Crowdsourcing has been completed!
RESULTS HAVE BEEN POSTED!

Update: some answers to questions posted here, here, here and here.

Wabbit Season! Duck Season! Wabbit Season! Duck Season! Prioritization Season!

Several times a year, the CSM enlists the aid of the community in helping us prioritize the issues that CSM has raised with CCP. The results of this crowdsourcing effort helps guide the CSM's efforts during not only our regular summit meetings, but also the all-important CCP release planning process. This is your chance to tell us which CSM issues you think are the most important and deserving of CCP's attention.

Here's how it works:

Visit the July 2011 Prioritization Crowdsourcing wiki page. There you will find a list of about 170 open CSM issues.

Pick the items that you believe are most important, and create a single-line ballot in the following format:

<your player name>,pick#1,pick#2,pick#3,pick#4,...,pick#n

For example:

Bugshunter Bunny,1,7,19,24,25,3,99,27,44,57

Please use commas to separate each entries, and make each entry numeric; after your character name, the only valid characters are digits, commas and (new this time, see below) the minus sign.

Then post your ballot in this thread.

Keep in mind:

* Picks do not need to be any order; each pick is given equal weight.

* Duplicate picks will be ignored. You may vote once per active account you have, but please don't vote more than once per account (CCP can detect this, but removing these votes is annoying, and the wrath of CCP Fallout is a terrible thing).

* Make sure the name on your ballot matches the name of the character posting, and the ballot is on a line by itself in your post, because that's how we detect and extract the votes. Apart from this restriction, please free to discuss the crowdsourcing in the thread.

* Each ballot is worth 20 points, divided equally between the items selected. No item can get more than 3 points per ballot, so pick at least 7 to ensure all your points are used. In the example above, Bugshunter Bunny picked 10 items, so each of his selections will receive 2 points. If he picked 40 items, each would receive 1/2 of a point.

* Based on player feedback on previous prioritizations, this time around you can also vote against items. To do this, just put a "-" in front of an item you want to vote against. For example:

Negativity Duck,1,7,19,24,25,3,99,-27,-44,-57

In this case, 10 votes are being cast, so each is worth 2 points, but 7 of them will add 2 points and 3 of them will subtract two points. Note that casting negative votes makes your positive votes less powerful!

* Since we will be looking at the results both with and without negative votes, please make sure you pick at least 7 positive vote items to ensure that your votes get full weight when only positive votes are considered.

You may wish to consult the August 2010 and November 2010 Prioritization results to refresh your memory of the results of that process. You'll see that more than a few of the most popular items on those lists have already been fixed.