Poll for the 5 question to be answered by CA (with actual Poll this time)

**Soulflame** · 09-20-2004, 12:58

If the mods decide there is not enough time for this poll (which I understand perfectly) they can close this down. But since it was opted many times, and because there still is no word from any of the mods which action is the best one, I decided at least to go ahead and make the poll. That way, should the mods decide that this poll IS valid, at least we had more time to vote.

Please only vote for 5 questions (or less).

From the previous thread (without the poll)

The Emperor
I think a Mod should choose the main questions.

Soulflame
The Emperor: Seeing as the mods haven't replied to our suggestion to propose the 5 questions, or a system to choose the 5, and with only about 6.5 hours to go, I think we need to act. If the mods decide after we post the poll and voted, at least we had a safety backup: there were going to be 5 questions that could be answered even if the mods didn't show up.

I hope the poll works this time.. I checked all lengths in advance..

**GilJaysmith** · 09-20-2004, 13:53

Looks good. I'll check the vote around 9am GMT tomorrow and copy the five high scorers to Roxy. (In the event of a tie, I'll just pick at random, so no rigging it on the offchance that I'll include twenty-seven questions just because they happen to be joint fifth in the poll :-)

**Gregoshi** · 09-20-2004, 14:06

Hey folks, I wouldn't worry about we mods getting involved. Several of you have been doing a nice job with this and you seem to be very fair about selecting the questions, so press on! My hat's off to those of you who have helped work this out from beginning to end.

**Tamur** · 09-20-2004, 15:15

Nice work Soulflame. I was having a horrendous time trying to pick an even subset, you've got a good cross-section here.

**Degtyarev14.5** · 09-20-2004, 16:14

Alright, I submit another:

Can CA / Activision comment on planned after-sale service and support? This extends beyond releasing monthly historical battles to issues such as patches - more than one if necessary, please - that deal with obvious bug-fixes as well as more general troop / faction imbalances.

If you're interested, another submission:

Will all faction leaders die at age fifty-six?

A.

**Myrddraal** · 09-20-2004, 16:23

Can you give some example of how moddable RTW will be? Will there be modding tools released?

18 votes and counting (come on you know this is the most important question...) =)

**Bob the Insane** · 09-20-2004, 17:37

Put my votes in but I would add that I will be happy with any of the questions being asked, I juct can't wait to see this game in my hands and any info makes the wait a little easier...

**Soulflame** · 09-20-2004, 19:19

Originally Posted by ArseClown

Alright, I submit another:

Can CA / Activision comment on planned after-sale service and support? This extends beyond releasing monthly historical battles to issues such as patches - more than one if necessary, please - that deal with obvious bug-fixes as well as more general troop / faction imbalances.

If you're interested, another submission:

Will all faction leaders die at age fifty-six?

A.

I cant edit the poll to add more questions, and alot of people have voted already anyway. So I'll try to answer them with my own (limited) knowledge and common sense.

I don't think they'll comment on after-sale service and support anyway. They will obviously say "We hope we don't need to do many bugfixes/imbalance changes, but if they are needed, we'll do them as fast as we can". Just like the release date of the game itself: It's done when it's done, plz don't keep asking for it, because it's useless anyway.
And in the very remote possibility that they don't have an after-sale team, they won't admit it anyway (but I can't imagine they won't have a team).

As for the second question, they didn't all die at 56 in MTW, so I guess in Rome they won't either.

**Degtyarev14.5** · 09-20-2004, 19:53

Hmmm... You are aware that Viking Invasion introduced that system whereby a general will die forty years after the commencement of his career? As an unexpected side-effect, all princes, kings, khalifas, doges, sultans and emperors died at the age of fifty-six.

Furthermore, Activision was not prepared to authorise CA to develop a patch to address this rather severe bug. That it got through the QA net in the first place is astonishing: that CA employees had to end up fixing it in their own time is unforgivable.

I believe either Activision or CA had better speak up and address this concern before I decide whether to invest in their products again.

Please note that any misgivings I bear are directed at Activision, not CA.

A.

**Bob the Insane** · 09-20-2004, 20:13

Originally Posted by ArseClown

Hmmm... You are aware that Viking Invasion introduced that system whereby a general will die forty years after the commencement of his career? As an unexpected side-effect, all princes, kings, khalifas, doges, sultans and emperors died at the age of fifty-six.

Furthermore, Activision was not prepared to authorise CA to develop a patch to address this rather severe bug. That it got through the QA net in the first place is astonishing: that CA employees had to end up fixing it in their own time is unforgivable.

I believe either Activision or CA had better speak up and address this concern before I decide whether to invest in their products again.

Please note that any misgivings I bear are directed at Activision, not CA.

A.

You could try asking that on the .com site but you had better have your flame proof pants on..

Better still try a direct e-mail to Activision customer support and see what the response is... If they can't be bothered responsed, well that speaks volumns too...