Players Survey 2016 - Results

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Here are the results to the recent players survey. Thanks to the 1125 players who answered the survey.

[tt]Which version(s) are you playing on?
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 935 Experimental
████ 90 Experimental + unofficial patches
███████ 149 0.C “Cooper” - Stable
3 0.B “Brin” - Stable
1 0.A “Kaufman” - Stable
3 0.9 “Ma” - Stable
6 Other

If you are using the experimental version, are you playing with z-levels?
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███████████████████████████████████ 440 I play with z-levels
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 618 I play without z-levels

Graphical or console?
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 853 Graphical (SDL - Tiles)
███████ 122 Graphical with tileset disabled
██████████ 182 Console (ncurses)

If you are using the graphical version, which tileset(s) are you using?
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████████████████████████████████████████████████████ 349 ChestHole
████ 27 ChestHole16
██████████████████████████████████ 230 ChestHole32
██ 18 ChestHole_iso
█ 11 ChestHoleTileset_iso
4 HitButton iso
██ 14 MShock24
███ 24 MShock24Modded
██████ 42 MShock32
█████████ 64 MShock32Modded
███████ 51 MShock32Xottoplus
███ 23 RetroASCII
██████ 44 RetroDays10px
███████████████ 104 RetroDays20px
█ 7 Blockhead’s
█ 10 Deon’s
██ 16 Hoder’s
2 Thuztor’@
3 Tsu’s
█ 12 BrownLikeBears
██ 17 Other

If you are playing the graphical version, are you playing with sound?
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███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ 523 With sound
████████████████████████████████████████████████████ 461 Without sound
██ 20 Other

If you are playing with sound, which soundpack(s) are you using?
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█████████████████████████ 176 Basic (The default one with a single sound effect in the main menu)
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 342 ChestHole
████ 34 ChestHoleCC
███ 21 ChestOldTimey
█████████ 66 RRFSounds
██ 19 Other

Are you using the official binaries or are you compiling the game yourself?
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██████████████████████████████████████████ 460 I manually download the game from the official website and I use the official binaries
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 546 I use the CDDA Game Launcher to download the official game binaries for me
███████████ 128 I compile the game myself
███ 33 I am using binaries compiled by a third party
█ 13 Other

How often do you update your game?
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█████████ 45 I always use the same version
███████████████████████ 115 I only updated my game a few times so far
█████████████████████████████████████████████████ 246 I only update my game when I start a new character or a new world
█████████████████████████ 125 Every few months
██████████████████████████████████ 174 Every few weeks
███████████████████████████████████████ 199 Every few days
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 249 As soon as there is a new version
██████ 31 Other

If you are playing the game with mods, which ones are you using?
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█████████████████████████ 297 Craftable Gun Pack
██████████████████ 213 DeadLeaves’ Fictional Guns
██████ 74 Generic Guns
█████████████████████████████ 349 Icecoon’s Arsenal/Icecoon’s Weapons Pack
███████████ 141 Crazy Cataclysm
██████████████████████████████████ 400 Medieval and Historic Content
██████████████ 165 Filthy Clothing
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 588 More Survival Tools
███████████████████████████████████████ 462 More Craftables
██████████████████████████ 315 More Classes and Scenarios
██████████████████████████████████████ 447 More Locations
████████████████████ 242 Extended Realistic Guns
██████████████ 166 Simplified Nutrition
████████████████ 199 Mythological Replicas
██████████ 119 DinoMod
█████████ 106 Animatronic Monsters
████████████████████████████ 336 Tall Buildings
██████████████████████████████████████████ 500 Boats
████████████████████████████████████████ 478 Folding Parts pack
████████████████████████████████████████████ 527 Tanks and Other Vehicles
█████████████████████████████████████████████████ 584 Vehicle Additions Pack
███████████████████ 227 Arcana and Magic Items
█████████████ 163 Necromancy
█████████████ 159 PKs Reimagining
█ 13 Disable mutagens
█████ 62 Disable religious texts
██████████ 124 Disable NPC Needs
███ 41 No Antique Firearms
██ 35 No Energy Weapons
███ 44 No Fictional Guns
██ 32 No Sci-Fi Equipment
█████ 59 No Flaming Weapons
█ 16 No Medieval Items
██ 33 No Powered Armor
█ 20 No Survivor Armor
█████ 64 Mundane Zombies
██████ 75 No Acid Zombies
███ 40 No Explosive Zombies
████████ 98 No Fungal Monsters
█ 17 No Zombie Animals
███████████ 137 No Joke Monsters
11 No Monsters
███ 45 No Triffids
██████████ 118 Classic Roguelike Classes
█ 17 Fast Zombies
█████████████████ 202 Prevent Zombie Revivication
██████████████ 165 Slow Zombies
█████████████████████████████ 349 StatsThroughSkills (I, II, III or IV)
███ 36 Perfect Reliability
████ 54 Tough Zombies
8 Zombie Nightvision
███████ 92 Artyoms’ Gun Emporium
█████████ 113 C:DDA Extra Professions
█████████ 109 Cataclysm++
███████████ 138 Extended Buildings
███ 40 Jury-Rigged Robots
█████ 67 Mining Mod
███ 38 Mutation stuff
█ 23 Nimian Manufacture Guns
1 No Recreationals
███ 41 Overmap Rebalancing
█ 21 Packaging
████ 49 Parks and Rec Building Pack
7 Removes Nether Creatures
██████████ 122 Experimental Z-Level Buildings (0.C)
10 No Rivtech Guns (0.C)
█ 22 Other

Which operating system(s) are you using to play the game?
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 492 Windows 10
███████████████ 148 Windows 8
████████████████████████████████████████ 403 Windows 7
6 Windows Vista
██ 25 Windows XP
███ 30 macOS 10.12 - Sierra
█ 18 Mac OS X 10.11 - El Capitan
█ 12 Mac OS X 10.10 - Yosemite
4 Mac OS X 10.9 - Mavericks
1 Mac OS X 10.8 - Mountain Lion
0 Mac OS X 10.7 - Lion
1 Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard
0 Mac OS X 10.5 - Leopard
0 Mac OS X 10.4 - Tiger
8 Android
███ 31 iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch)
4 Raspbian (Raspberry Pi)
4 Wine on a non-Windows OS
███████ 72 Ubuntu
██ 26 Debian
9 Fedora
███ 32 Linux Mint
███ 34 Arch Linux
5 Gentoo
0 CentOS
0 PCLinuxOS
1 Slackware Linux
1 openSUSE
2 FreeBSD
0 OpenBSDNetBSD
0 SteamOS
8 Other

What terminal size(s) are you using?
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███████████████ 80 Default values: 80x24
██ 12 Around 80x30 or VGA (640x480)
███████ 40 Around 100x38 or SVGA (800x600)
██████████████████ 97 Around 128x48 or XGA (1024x768)
██████████████████████████████████ 177 Around 160x45 or HD (1280x720)
███████████████████ 99 Around 160x64 or SXGA (1280x1024)
████████████████ 83 Around 200x75 or UXGA (1600x1200)
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 256 Around 240x68 or FHD (1920x1080)
██████ 33 Around 240x75 or WUXGA (1920x1200)
██████ 32 Bigger than 240x75 or WUXGA (1920x1200)
█████████████████████████████████████████ 214 Fullscreen
████████████████████████████████████ 185 Fullscreen Windowed Borderless
█████ 27 Other

Which of these world generation options do you use?
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 955 Static spawn (Initial monsters)
█████████████████ 327 Wander spawns (Zombie hordes)
█████ 96 Classic zombies
██ 44 Surrounded start
█████████████████████████████████ 649 Static npcs
███████████████████████████ 534 Random npcs[/tt]

You can also view the raw answers and the python script I used to create this graph. You can compare the results with last year’s results.

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Here are the last 2 questions:

[tt]Regarding the other world generation options, are you adjusting them to make the game harder or easier?
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███████████████████████████ 254 I adjust the world generation options to make the game harder
██████████████████████ 206 I adjust the world generation options to make the game easier
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 460 I adjust the world generation options without making the game harder or easier
██████████████████████████████ 280 I use the default world generation options

Do you use skill rust?
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 800 It is Off (Off - Default value for the latest experimental)
█████ 91 It is Intelligence dependent (Int - Old default value for 0.C and previous experimental versions)
██ 36 It is Capped at skill levels (Capped)
█████████ 144 It is Intelligence dependent, Capped (IntCap)
████ 70 It is Vanilla, Capped (Vanilla)
3 Other[/tt]

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This is awesome! Thanks for posting!

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That’s a pretty good argument against skill rust.

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I thought I might see about updating MShock32Xotto when I’m finished with my current project, but Chesthole is crushing it. Also,mods that are all about adding lots of items to the game are in high use. Feels like a lost cause. :frowning:

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[quote=“egomassive, post:5, topic:13090”]I thought I might see about updating MShock32Xotto when I’m finished with my current project, but Chesthole is crushing it. Also,mods that are all about adding lots of items to the game are in high use. Feels like a lost cause. :([/quote]Chesthole doesn’t have much in the way of support in that direction, so you could get ahead by being the one with the tileset that shows less pixelated ascii.

[quote=“TheFlame52, post:4, topic:13090”]That’s a pretty good argument against skill rust.[/quote]And towards mod support, but you can definitely feel the skill rust hate.

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Given something like 43% do use skill rust, it’s a good argument for keeping it as an option.

8

You fail at math, badly.

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Do I?

800 people have it off, according to the survey.
91+36+144+70+3 = 344 have it on, in various settings.

344 / 800 = 0.43 = 43% have it on, in various settings.

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facepalm really?

You don’t do this:

You do this:

344 / (800 + 344) = 0.30

Other than that, there are other issues. FIrst in considering the other category as part of it, because it doesn’t define one or the other and frankly, who knows what the heck those 3 people meant when they voted that.

Another issue is that it’s a multi-selection vote, so a person that has used all of them might vote for all of them, and a person that doesn’t recall which mode of skill rust he uses or whom has used them all as the game has changed might vote for all methods. This artificially inflates the “uses skill rust” statistics, which makes the vote bad at telling just how many people use it.

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TFW you play with your soundset and think about releasing it but chesto is crushing everbody.

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[quote=“Aabbcc, post:10, topic:13090”]facepalm really?

You don’t do this:

You do this:

344 / (800 + 344) = 0.30

Other than that, there are other issues. FIrst in considering the other category as part of it, because it doesn’t define one or the other and frankly, who knows what the heck those 3 people meant when they voted that.

Another issue is that it’s a multi-selection vote, so a person that has used all of them might vote for all of them, and a person that doesn’t recall which mode of skill rust he uses or whom has used them all as the game has changed might vote for all methods. This artificially inflates the “uses skill rust” statistics, which makes the vote bad at telling just how many people use it.[/quote]

You are right. 344 is 43% of 800 but that’s obviously not the total, and in my rush I forgot to add the 344 first.

30% would still be a significant portion, and even if there’s issues with the question itself, my original point still stands. Some people use the mechanic (I’d guesstimate it’s 20 plus percent at least), and it’s fine as an uninvasive option. The game is greater for having options like this so that everyone can tailor their experience to their tastes.

[quote=“Charlesilv4, post:11, topic:13090”]TFW you play with your soundset and think about releasing it but chesto is crushing everbody.

(…)[/quote]

ChestHole is still incomplete, and hasn’t been updated in a while as far as I know. You could use it as a base and eventually produce something more complete.

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I’d like to know what are those unofficial patches people are using.

14

Probably PK’s Mod plus its patches, that’s what I penciled in for it.

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My guess is that this choice is too confusing for most players in the survey. It should probably be removed or replaced. One person mentioned using Whalesdev-Github.

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People are sad over Chesthole crushing other tilesets? Man, im happy that people use my tileset on the first place! Also Chezzo deserves it, he is awesome. As is everyone that helps him! All the contributors of that tileset are really awesome people, hehehe.

Thuztor’s@ tileset is one tileset I love to death, and if I can get the fallback running with the style of the drawings I may release it one day. But I gotta work on that.

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I have some modifications made to to Vehicle Additions Pack. Mainly to get the Vortex Engine/Generator working again. Does that count?

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I have some modifications made to to Vehicle Additions Pack. Mainly to get the Vortex Engine/Generator working again. Does that count?[/quote]

Can you share that with the rest of the class and maybe see about getting it added to the main version of the mod?

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Ill take 160 people for my work thus far.

Ive scared off a lot of ‘casual’ players and newbies think the mod is for ‘god tier’ players.

Plus Ive got some evidence that a few people who do play didnt take the survey for w.e. reason.

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[quote=“pisskop, post:19, topic:13090”]Ill take 160 people for my work thus far.

Ive scared off a lot of ‘casual’ players and newbies think the mod is for ‘god tier’ players.

Plus Ive got some evidence that a few people who do play didnt take the survey for w.e. reason.[/quote]

I admit I’m one of those people who is scared of your mod, but that fear is a good thing. It makes me want to learn as much about the base game as I can before slipping into the awesome mod you’ve designed.

Which will probably be within the next seven days.