Army-Wide Rules: New Poll & Community Notes
Hello Everyone,
After yesterday's poll there was a lot of very interesting discussion going on in our Discord, which is amazing. We're very happy that we have such an active community that freely shares their thoughts and ideas, and OPR would not be where it is today if it wasn't for this great community. So first things first: Thank you everyone!
Since not everyone is on Discord, we wanted to make a post today covering two of the biggest topics that were discussed after the poll dropped, and make a new poll to cover some more points.
The first topic we want to cover is why all armies are getting the same conditions, instead of each army having their own conditions.
As we've already mentioned before, the long-term plan is for every army to have their own unique army-wide rules and conditions, so what you're asking for is already in the plans. Currently our intention is to update about 1/3rd of the armies each year, and giving them unique army-wide rules is part of that. So don't worry, unique army-wide rules and conditions are coming!
That being said, this is a long-term plan, that will require proper development and testing time, and we need an interim solution until every army has received army-wide rules. Since we don't want to rush things, we're taking the approach of having the same army-wide conditions across all armies, so that at least things are solid and fair for everyone.
The second topic we want to cover is why there are always such heated debates around this topic, and why it's been so hard for us to make everyone happy.
What we've already been discussing with the community for a few years now, is that there are certain things on which the community is almost perfectly evenly split in opinion, which means that no matter what we do, a large portion of the community will be unhappy with the result. Since there is no unified direction that the vast majority of players want us to go in, we're in the position of always disappointing a large part of the community.
Whilst we usually don't show poll results, we thought the results of yesterday's poll are so indicative of this situation, that we think you should see for yourselves.
For offensive army-wides, we can see that from the three rules options, two of them have an almost perfect 33% split, with one having 23%. Then when we zoom in on the two that had the 33% split, we can see that they're divided 49% to 41%. Whilst these results definitely indicate a certain preference in the community, as you can see there is no overwhelming majority here, so no matter what we do a large part of the community won't be happy.
For the defensive army-wide rules, we can see that from the three rules options we definitely have two favorites, but those are again at a very close 39% to 37% split, and when we zoom in those have an almost perfect 45% split. So again, the results have no overwhelming majority in either direction, so whatever we do a large part of the community won't be happy.
For the last question, we at least had a bit of an easier result here, with a 34% to 29% split when given the choice between many rules, and then a 50% to 36% split when zooming in on the favorites. That being said, even a 50% to 36% split is not amazing, because it still means that 1/3rd of the community won't be happy.
So, where does that leave us?
When results are so close, there is no "community guidance" in these matters, so in the end we'll have to rely on our own thoughts of what is best for the games, and for what we're trying to do with them. We hope that the players that didn't vote for whatever we ultimately choose to implement can at least be understanding of our decisions, and that showing the poll results here gives you a better perspective on things. :)
That being said, we're not done yet.
There were lots of other points that players brought up after the survey, which we think are valid for you to vote on. Should we keep army-wide rules as they are? Should we make them more unique? Should we remove conditions from them? Should we remove army-wide rules as a whole? Or should we do whatever we think is best? Lots to wonder!
To help us gauge where the community as a whole stands on army-wide rules, we've taken the most frequently shared opinions and put them into a poll. Make sure to answer here: https://forms.gle/qSXEvgNXfvRBYBkU6
Thank you for your continued feedback and support, making these polls and talking to the community about them has been super fun, and we hope you've been enjoying the conversation too. :)
Happy Wargaming!
– OPR Team
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/onepagerules
Join our Community: Discord – Facebook – Bluesky – Twitter – Reddit
Army-Wide Rules: New Poll & Community Notes
Hello Everyone,
After yesterday's poll there was a lot of very interesting discussion going on in our Discord, which is amazing. We're very happy that we have such an active community that freely shares their thoughts and ideas, and OPR would not be where it is today if it wasn't for this great community. So first things first: Thank you everyone!
Since not everyone is on Discord, we wanted to make a post today covering two of the biggest topics that were discussed after the poll dropped, and make a new poll to cover some more points.
The first topic we want to cover is why all armies are getting the same conditions, instead of each army having their own conditions.
As we've already mentioned before, the long-term plan is for every army to have their own unique army-wide rules and conditions, so what you're asking for is already in the plans. Currently our intention is to update about 1/3rd of the armies each year, and giving them unique army-wide rules is part of that. So don't worry, unique army-wide rules and conditions are coming!
That being said, this is a long-term plan, that will require proper development and testing time, and we need an interim solution until every army has received army-wide rules. Since we don't want to rush things, we're taking the approach of having the same army-wide conditions across all armies, so that at least things are solid and fair for everyone.
The second topic we want to cover is why there are always such heated debates around this topic, and why it's been so hard for us to make everyone happy.
What we've already been discussing with the community for a few years now, is that there are certain things on which the community is almost perfectly evenly split in opinion, which means that no matter what we do, a large portion of the community will be unhappy with the result. Since there is no unified direction that the vast majority of players want us to go in, we're in the position of always disappointing a large part of the community.
Whilst we usually don't show poll results, we thought the results of yesterday's poll are so indicative of this situation, that we think you should see for yourselves.
For offensive army-wides, we can see that from the three rules options, two of them have an almost perfect 33% split, with one having 23%. Then when we zoom in on the two that had the 33% split, we can see that they're divided 49% to 41%. Whilst these results definitely indicate a certain preference in the community, as you can see there is no overwhelming majority here, so no matter what we do a large part of the community won't be happy.
For the defensive army-wide rules, we can see that from the three rules options we definitely have two favorites, but those are again at a very close 39% to 37% split, and when we zoom in those have an almost perfect 45% split. So again, the results have no overwhelming majority in either direction, so whatever we do a large part of the community won't be happy.
For the last question, we at least had a bit of an easier result here, with a 34% to 29% split when given the choice between many rules, and then a 50% to 36% split when zooming in on the favorites. That being said, even a 50% to 36% split is not amazing, because it still means that 1/3rd of the community won't be happy.
So, where does that leave us?
When results are so close, there is no "community guidance" in these matters, so in the end we'll have to rely on our own thoughts of what is best for the games, and for what we're trying to do with them. We hope that the players that didn't vote for whatever we ultimately choose to implement can at least be understanding of our decisions, and that showing the poll results here gives you a better perspective on things. :)
That being said, we're not done yet.
There were lots of other points that players brought up after the survey, which we think are valid for you to vote on. Should we keep army-wide rules as they are? Should we make them more unique? Should we remove conditions from them? Should we remove army-wide rules as a whole? Or should we do whatever we think is best? Lots to wonder!
To help us gauge where the community as a whole stands on army-wide rules, we've taken the most frequently shared opinions and put them into a poll. Make sure to answer here: https://forms.gle/qSXEvgNXfvRBYBkU6
Thank you for your continued feedback and support, making these polls and talking to the community about them has been super fun, and we hope you've been enjoying the conversation too. :)
Happy Wargaming!
– OPR Team
Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/onepagerules
Join our Community: Discord – Facebook – Bluesky – Twitter – Reddit
