Players Survey - Results

[rremyroy]

The results are in. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer the survey. We had 815 persons who answered it.

Here are the results:

[tt]1. Which version(s) are you playing on?
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██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 667 Experimental
████ 56 Experimental + unofficial patches
█████████ 133 0.C “Cooper” - Stable
0 0.B “Brin” - Stable
1 0.A “Kaufman” - Stable
2 0.9 “Ma” - Stable
2 Other

2. If you are using the experimental version, are you playing with z-levels?
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   █████████████████████████████████████ 328 I play with z-levels
   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 435 I play without z-levels

3. Graphical or console?
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   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 529 Graphical (SDL - Tiles)
   █████████████ 140 Graphical with tileset disabled
   ████████████████ 177 Console (ncurses)

4. If you are using the graphical version, which tileset(s) are you using?
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   ████████████████████████████████████████████████████ 154 ChestHole
   █████████████████████████████████ 99 ChestHole32
   █ 4 ChestHoleTileset_iso
   ███████████ 34 MShock24
   ███████████████████ 57 MShock24Modded
   ████████████████████ 62 MShock32
   ████████████████████████████ 83 MSocck32Modded
   ███████ 22 RetroASCII
   ████████████ 36 RetroDays10px
   █████████████████████████████████ 99 RetroDays20px
   █ 5 Blockhead’s
   ████ 13 Deon’s
   ██████ 20 Hoder’s
   █ 4 Thuztor’@
   ██ 6 Tsu’s
   █████████ 28 Other

5. If you are playing the graphical version, are you playing with sound?
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   ██████████████████████████████████████ 263 With sound
   ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ 401 Without sound
   ████ 29 Other

6. Are you using the official binaries or are you compiling the game yourself?
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   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 678 I download the game from the official website and I use the official binaries
   ████████ 114 I compile the game myself
   ███ 45 I am using binaries compiled by a third party
   12 Other

7. If you are playing the game with mods, which ones are you using?
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   ██████████████████████████ 250 Craftable Gun Pack
   █████████████████████ 206 DeadLeaves’ Fictional Guns
   ██████ 64 Generic Guns
   ██████████████████████████████████ 326 Icecoon’s Weapons Pack
   █████████████████████████████████ 319 Medieval and Historic Content
   ████████████████████████████████████████████████ 453 More Survival Tools
   █████████████████████ 198 Mythological Replicas
   ██████████ 97 DinoMod
   ████████████ 114 Animatronic Monsters
   ████████████████████████████ 264 Tall Buildings
   ████████████████████████████████████████████ 420 Boats
   █████████████████████████████████████ 356 Folding Parts pack
   ████████████████████████████████████████████ 416 Tanks and Other Vehicles
   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 470 Vehicle Additions Pack
   ████████████████████ 190 Arcana and Magic Items
   ██████████████ 132 Necromancy
   9 Disable mutagens
   █████ 47 Disable religious texts
   ██ 28 No Antique Firearms
   ██ 22 No Energy Weapons
   ██ 22 No Fictional Guns
   ███ 30 No Flaming Weapons
   █ 15 No Medieval Items
   ███ 33 No Powered Armor
   ██ 20 No Survivor Armor
   █████ 47 Mundane Zombies
   ██████ 58 No Acid Zombies
   ███████ 66 No Fungal Monsters
   ███████████████ 146 No Joke Monsters
   8 No Monsters
   ███ 34 No Triffids
   ███████████ 112 Classic Roguelike Classes
   ██ 25 Fast Zombies
   ██████████████ 140 Prevent Zombie Revivication
   ████████████████ 157 Slow Zombies
   ██████████████████ 170 StatsThroughSkills
   ██████ 59 Tough Zombies
   ██ 22 Zombie Nightvision
   ██████████████████ 178 Experimental Z-Level Buildings (0.C)
   █ 17 No Rivtech Guns (0.C)
   ███ 32 Other

8. Which operating system(s) are you using to play the game?
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   ████████████████████████ 190 Windows 10
   ███████████████████ 150 Windows 8
   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 393 Windows 7
   ██ 20 Windows Vista
   █████ 40 Windows XP
   ██ 19 Mac OS X 10.11 - El Capitan
   ██ 17 Mac OS X 10.10 - Yosemith
   5 Mac OS X 10.9 - Mavericks
   2 Mac OS X 10.8 - Mountain Lion
   2 Mac OS X 10.7 - Lion
   2 Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard
   0 Mac OS X 10.5 - Leopard
   0 Mac OS X 10.4 - Tiger
   ███████ 56 Ubuntu
   ██ 22 Debian
   3 Fedora
   ███ 26 Linux Mint
   ████ 32 Arch Linux
   3 Gentoo
   1 CentOS
   0 PCLinuxOS
   1 Slackware Linux
   1 openSUSE
   0 FreeBSD
   0 OpenBSD
   0 NetBSD
   0 SteamOS
   █ 8 Other

9. What terminal size(s) are you using?
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   █████████████ 43 Default values: 80x24
   ████ 13 Around 80x30 or VGA (640x480)
   ████████ 28 Around 100x38 or SVGA (800x600)
   █████████████████████████ 81 Around 128x48 or XGA (1024x768)
   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 158 Around 160x45 or HD (1280x720)
   ███████████████████████████ 86 Around 160x64 or SXGA (1280x1024)
   ███████████████████████ 74 Around 200x75 or UXGA (1600x1200)
   ████████████████████████████████████████████████ 154 Around 240x68 or FHD (1920x1080)
   █████████████ 42 Around 240x75 or WUXGA (1920x1200)
   █████████████████████████████████████████████████ 157 Fullscreen
   ████████████████████████ 76 Fullscreen Windowed Borderless
   ███████████████████ 61 Other

10. Which of these world generation options do you use?
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    ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 694 Static spawn (Initial monsters)
    ██████████████ 200 Wander spawns (Zombie hordes)
    ██████████████████████████████████ 477 Static npcs
    ██████████████████████████ 367 Random npcs

11. Regarding the other world generation options, are you adjusting them to make the game harder or easier?
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    ████████████████████████████████████ 219 I adjust the world generation options to make the game harder
    ███████████████████████████ 166 I adjust the world generation options to make the game easier
    ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 297 I adjust the world generation options without making the game harder or easier
    ████████████████████████████████ 191 I use the default world generation options[/tt]

You can also download the raw responses.

[Mattamue]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for putting this together. A random insight from me is the paper doll in chesthole is why I’m using graphical over console.

[sparr]

82% on Experimental? Wow. I think this is a good sign that 0.D is overdue.

4 people playing in isometric mode. Woo! I look forward to expanding that number. It will soon be polished enough that I will be comfortable putting isometric screenshots on the wiki.

[Malkeus]

I’m one of the 32 who tagged OTHER in the mods list. I listed about a dozen mods that I’ve picked up from the forums. I’m curious enough about what other people put there that I’m going to dig through that csv to see…I’ll post my findings.

Edit:
In no particular order - Ok…I put the stuff I can’t find in the forums on the bottom -
Noctifer’s Survival Mod (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11248.0)
Noctifer’s Bio-Weapons Mod ---------------------------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11355.0).
Updated Vehicle Additions Pack by blaze [Blob vehicle parts!] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=8060.0).
Updated Medieval Stuff Mod by Random_Dragon [Shields!]—(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10822.0).
Artyom’s Gun Emporium (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10759.0).
CDDA:Extra Professions and Fantasy Factions by Marte ------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11583.0).
Stats Through Skills modified by xfin and ZRU (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11353.0).
Jury-rigged Robots by sunshine-------------------------------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10667.0).
Nimian’s Manufacture weapons by GreatTuna (file hosted at rghost, a known malware site. fix or gtfo).
“Removes Nether Creatures [WIP] by TheMightyHercules---- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11032.0).”
“Plus a few extra monsters and changes to the zombie spawn ratios.” - This is my entry. It’s Pisskop’s data though: (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11746.0).
“No Shocker Zombies (self-made).”
“Own Personal Tweaks.”
“A bunch of custom made items and recipes.”
“Custom mod, which doubles melee attack power of all enemies.”
“A few blacklists and extra gear (mostly OVERSIZE items) I made myself.”
“My own tweaks.”
“Personal Tweaks.”
“Remove dildos mod.”

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I found these while looking for the ones mentioned above. In the order I found them in The Lab:
Guns/Equipment/Expansion Mode by AKnifeInTheDark [0.C] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11823.0).
Motorized Mobility Enhancement Pack by Steelmaniac-------------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11792.0).
chezzo’s Ambient Sounds [Opens to the correct message to download this sexy beast] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10390.msg260491#msg260491).
Alec White’s ‘Needful Things’-------------------------------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11791.0).
Nanite’s Mod by zveroboy (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11315.msg250201#msg250201).
CDDA: Fantasy Mod [Goblins and Elves and Orcs, oh my.] ------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11191.0).
Noctifer Custom Professions (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11164.0).
Bionic Overman by ChairmanPoo --------------------------------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11110.0).
Sunshine’s Reworked Item Groups (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10830.0).
Integrated Weapons Mods by RADIALTHRONE1---------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10720.0).
Survivor Kane’s Junk [6 mods total] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10692.0).
Skateboard Mod by unglued_bracelet--------------------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10341.0).
secretfire’s Vampire Mutation branch (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10092.0).
CommanderXor Wermacht Pride-------------------------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=9814.0).
Wilderness Overhaul Mod by MormonPartyBoat [0.C only] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=9568.0)
Duro’s Mods [Airdrops, 3D-Printing, Chemical synthesis]----- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=7270.0) <-Everybody pm him to get him back to work on this, it’s great!
Werty’s CDDA Mod [Home Improvements] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=5424.0).
Hazerithious’ Mods--------------------------------------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=9546.0).
XStuff by Enke [0.B] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=7029.0).
Coolthulu’s stuff [most of it’s been PR’d looks like]------------ (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=9023.0).
ok…gonna stop here at 8 pages deep. some of this stuff is a year old, I would be careful of the last few mods listed here, probably won’t work without some alterations.

This started as a statistics game and turned into a mod list. I’ll probably relocate it to it’s own message after I clean it up a bit. I didn’t make any of this content, I’m willing to help you with it, but I’m not responsible for any damage you do to your games trying to add any of these mods to it. Read carefully, ymmv, the bathroom is on the right.
If I messed something up or you want me to add something, pm me. I’ll move thisto it’s own thread soon n I don’t want to clutter up this one.

[Noctifer]

Pretty comprehencive list of player choices and mods. I might start a “Mod resurrection” project…but I am to lazy at the moment.

[Graphical]

Holy shit, I didn’t know the survey would pay off so much for the actual players.

[quote=“Malkeus, post:4, topic:11095”]Edit:
In no particular order - Ok…I put the stuff I can’t find in the forums on the bottom -
Noctifer’s Survival Mod (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11248.0)
Noctifer’s Bio-Weapons Mod ---------------------------------- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11355.0).
Updated Vehicle Additions Pack by blaze [Blob vehicle parts!] (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=8060.0).
Updated Medieval Stuff Mod by Random_Dragon [Shields!]—(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10822.0).
Artyom’s Gun Emporium (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10759.0).
CDDA:Extra Professions and Fantasy Factions by Marte ------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11583.0).
Stats Through Skills modified by xfin and ZRU (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11353.0).
Jury-rigged Robots by sunshine-------------------------------(http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10667.0).
Nimian’s Manufacture weapons by GreatTuna (file hosted at rghost, a known malware site. fix or gtfo).
“Removes Nether Creatures [WIP] by TheMightyHercules---- (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11032.0).”
“Plus a few extra monsters and changes to the zombie spawn ratios.” - This is my entry. It’s Pisskop’s data though: (http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11746.0).
“No Shocker Zombies (self-made).”
“Own Personal Tweaks.”
“A bunch of custom made items and recipes.”
“Custom mod, which doubles melee attack power of all enemies.”
“A few blacklists and extra gear (mostly OVERSIZE items) I made myself.”
“My own tweaks.”
“Personal Tweaks.”
“Remove dildos mod.”[/quote]

Hahahahaha. Someone actually did it.

And I’m amazed that theres an actual GUY, who decided to double creep damage.

I am definitely looking at your post again when I get back home. THANK YOU!

[scorpion451]

I’m fascinated by the 8 people in the “other” category under operating system.
Even accounting for things like obscure linux branches and homebrew legacy updates, that’s a surprising number of people.

[deknegt]

[quote=“scorpion451, post:7, topic:11095”]I’m fascinated by the 8 people in the “other” category under operating system.
Even accounting for things like obscure linux branches and homebrew legacy updates, that’s a surprising number of people.[/quote]

Probably those guys playing the game on their Win 3.1 and their IBMDOS

[rremyroy]

[quote=“scorpion451, post:7, topic:11095”]I’m fascinated by the 8 people in the “other” category under operating system.
Even accounting for things like obscure linux branches and homebrew legacy updates, that’s a surprising number of people.[/quote]

Here is what they wrote:

[ul][li]ssh from android - would love a native port :)[/li]
[li]I think it’s CrunchBang Linux on my crappy dev netbook I sometimes use.[/li]
[li]NixOS[/li]
[li]iPhone App[/li]
[li]iOS[/li]
[li]Void Linux[/li]
[li]Linux From Scratch[/li]
[li]iOS[/li][/ul]

[scorpion451]

So were there any major surprises here for people? (@ both dev/mod folks and just plain players)
I know I was a bit surprised at how many people play hordes mode.
(I can see the appeal, just way too !!FUN!! for my tastes as a all-the-time thing.)

[pisskop]

Im personally suprised so many people play with hordes off. As oppressive as classical spawn was, static and nothing else was worse.

I actually modded in a wildlife ‘zombie’ set and used them at one point.

[rremyroy]

[quote=“scorpion451, post:10, topic:11095”]So were there any major surprises here for people? (@ both dev/mod folks and just plain players)
I know I was a bit surprised at how many people play hordes mode.
(I can see the appeal, just way too !!FUN!! for my tastes as a all-the-time thing.)[/quote]

I did not think people play with that many mods. I appreciate the vanilla experience but I might be missing on some of those additional stuff.