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What gender are your characters Mk. II

sovereign010sovereign010 Member Posts: 641 Arc User
edited July 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Thanks to the suggestions in the previous poll I've put together a new and (hopefully) improved version. More detailed answers than before; time will tell whether this will generate a more accurate picture of the user base. That, and launching this during weekly maintenance will in theory get more responses.

What gender are your characters Mk. II 102 votes

I'm a guy and all my toons are female
10% 11 votes
I'm a guy and the majority of my toons are female
24% 25 votes
I'm a guy and my toons are a roughly even split between male and female
24% 25 votes
I'm a guy and the majority of my toons are male
13% 14 votes
I'm a guy and all my toons are male
11% 12 votes
I'm a girl and all my toons are female
6% 7 votes
I'm a girl and the majority of my toons are female
3% 4 votes
I'm a girl and my toons are a roughly even split between male and female
0% 1 vote
I'm a girl and the majority of my toons are male
1% 2 votes
I'm a girl and all my toons are male
0% 1 vote
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  • kittyflofykittyflofy Member Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    For god sake, stop making stupid useles polls, seriously.
  • bernatkbernatk Member Posts: 1,089 Bug Hunter
    You love polls, don't you lol?
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  • walligigwalligig Member Posts: 308 Arc User
    Yeah, you could have changed it up a little. A more interesting one might be Male to Female bridge officer ratio.
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  • kittyflofykittyflofy Member Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    bernatk wrote: »
    You love polls, don't you lol?

    No i dont. I love interesting and useful polls, not the opposite.

    Dont worry im pretty sure the forum is going to be modifiyed to cap the poll creation soon enough lol.
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  • sovereign010sovereign010 Member Posts: 641 Arc User
    walligig wrote: »
    Yeah, you could have changed it up a little. A more interesting one might be Male to Female bridge officer ratio.
    The only criteria I have for BOFF selection is their traits since those are the only aspects that are fixed.
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    I've seen other forums that allowed open polling by users, and it need not be a problem. I think that once people stop treating it like a meme, it'll be fine. This one IMO is not bad, especially since it doesn't have joke options or leading questions (that try to force you into a single opinion).

    I mean, I've done one poll, in Ten Forward, about how people were going to handle Windows 10 when it became available, and it generated what I thought was an interesting, productive discussion.

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  • walligigwalligig Member Posts: 308 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    bernatk wrote: »
    You love polls, don't you lol?
    No i dont. I love interesting and useful polls, not the opposite.
    I guess it depends on what you consider useful. I think the first poll was actually interesting. I agree with you though that there is no reason for this second one. I just like seeing this kind of stuff better then stuff like "Whats your DPS" blah blah numbers numbers... Everywhere.

    And yeah, as long as their are not stupid options in the poll I don't mind.

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  • dareaudareau Member Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    gulberat wrote: »
    I've seen other forums that allowed open polling by users, and it need not be a problem. I think that once people stop treating it like a meme, it'll be fine. This one IMO is not bad, especially since it doesn't have joke options or leading questions (that try to force you into a single opinion).

    I mean, I've done one poll, in Ten Forward, about how people were going to handle Windows 10 when it became available, and it generated what I thought was an interesting, productive discussion.

    Bingo. Once the "new option smell" wears off, then polling hopefully will be something like this thread - a player-sponsored idea to gain a semi-useful metric that we're either not going to see from the Devs and/or something that might want to be considered by the playerbase & Devs...

    Such as this thread being used to point out that, as of my posting, 55% of the respondents are guys who strictly / primarily run Fem toons. Therefore, if I was a Dev / Designer, I know that I could either spam much costume sales by going risque (as the majority of guys playing ladies seem to like the "more revealing" outfits due to eye candy concerns), or I could attempt to encourage a much more appropriate gender match throughout the playerbase by making most/all the feminine clothing options "professional".

    Also, this poll may be either preventing a different poll on the subject, encouraging one, or preparing context for one. I mean, I'm now "so tempted" to write a poll asking people how they dress their female characters - professional / risque / their idea of "hot" (dresses, semi-revealing vs the much more risque ToS Mirror & Orion Native Garbs, etc.) / based purely on RP/Character concerns (Hothead Elisa Flores might have a different uniform take than cucumber-cool Vulcan gradutate, even though both wear a variant of the Oddy uniform) - and have said poll have male and female options (so the 55% or so of guys that play mostly/exclusively females can be segregated some from the females) and we can start to see if there's things like "uniform disconnect" (guys running around as risque/hot as possible - possibly / primarily for eye candy, ladies running around much more "professionally" unless their desired character concept encourages / requires the use of the skimpy/risque/"hot")...

    But, I might hold off on said poll until there's a lot more respondents (especially female respondents) and that there still is a significant majority of the userbase (40%ish?) that's using primarily/exclusively female characters...
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  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    Is poll TRIBBLE a thing? I think poll TRIBBLE should be a thing now.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    walligig wrote: »
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    bernatk wrote: »
    You love polls, don't you lol?
    No i dont. I love interesting and useful polls, not the opposite.
    I guess it depends on what you consider useful. I think the first poll was actually interesting. I agree with you though that there is no reason for this second one. I just like seeing this kind of stuff better then stuff like "Whats your DPS" blah blah numbers numbers... Everywhere.

    And yeah, as long as their are not stupid options in the poll I don't mind.
    He made a second poll because someone pointed out that a poll where people can see who voted for what was less likely to get honest answers.
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  • kittyflofykittyflofy Member Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    walligig wrote: »
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    bernatk wrote: »
    You love polls, don't you lol?
    No i dont. I love interesting and useful polls, not the opposite.
    I guess it depends on what you consider useful. I think the first poll was actually interesting. I agree with you though that there is no reason for this second one. I just like seeing this kind of stuff better then stuff like "Whats your DPS" blah blah numbers numbers... Everywhere.

    And yeah, as long as their are not stupid options in the poll I don't mind.

    Right, because knowing if people picks more males or females is an "useful" poll.. oh yeah.. now i see your point..
  • walligigwalligig Member Posts: 308 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    walligig wrote: »
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    bernatk wrote: »
    You love polls, don't you lol?
    No i dont. I love interesting and useful polls, not the opposite.
    I guess it depends on what you consider useful. I think the first poll was actually interesting. I agree with you though that there is no reason for this second one. I just like seeing this kind of stuff better then stuff like "Whats your DPS" blah blah numbers numbers... Everywhere.

    And yeah, as long as their are not stupid options in the poll I don't mind.

    Right, because knowing if people picks more males or females is an "useful" poll.. oh yeah.. now i see your point..

    I didn't say useful, I said interesting. Nvm, forget I said anything. I'm ending this before it turns into flaming and drama.
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  • empireofsteveempireofsteve Member Posts: 665 Arc User
    What about people who have a male body but identify as a female and play characters as such? What about the opposite? You have left out at least 60 more options for this poll.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    The poll feature only goes up to 10. :p
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  • newnjanewnja Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    I have 3 toons. 1 of each gender.
  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    Pollmageddon is here. we are all DOOMED!
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    he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
    In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
    He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
    He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,887 Arc User
    sovereign010 wrote: »
    walligig wrote: »
    Yeah, you could have changed it up a little. A more interesting one might be Male to Female bridge officer ratio.
    The only criteria I have for BOFF selection is their traits since those are the only aspects that are fixed.

    ^ This for me...I see no real logical reason to go out of my way to choose a all male or female boff crew.
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  • walligigwalligig Member Posts: 308 Arc User
    lianthelia wrote: »
    sovereign010 wrote: »
    walligig wrote: »
    Yeah, you could have changed it up a little. A more interesting one might be Male to Female bridge officer ratio.
    The only criteria I have for BOFF selection is their traits since those are the only aspects that are fixed.

    ^ This for me...I see no real logical reason to go out of my way to choose a all male or female boff crew.

    I do, I find that I have much more fun with the game having the crew I want rather then having random boffs on away teams and on my bridge. It makes leveling up through story missions more enjoyable seeing your customized boffs along side you. The importance of it differs from person to person I guess.

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  • captainoblivouscaptainoblivous Member Posts: 2,284 Arc User
    Quick, call the WAAAAAAAAmbulance! People are bit*hing about the polls again!
    I need a beer.

  • admiraldunwalladmiraldunwall Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    For god sake, stop making stupid useles polls, seriously.

    But does it matter though? Does this so severely hurt you that you can't go on in life?

    Some people will complain about EVERYTHING.
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  • alexsanderitaalexsanderita Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    He made a second poll because someone pointed out that a poll where people can see who voted for what was less likely to get honest answers.

    And I voted in this too.

    Interesting data... less than a male out of five only uses male characters...​​
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    I'll answer this the same way I did the previous one. I flip a coin for the gender. So far, 3 male and 2 female.
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  • freakiumfreakium Member Posts: 439 Arc User
    In MMOs I always play one main dude that uses my likeness. No other dude can be as badass as my main so all other alts of mine are female.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    freakium wrote: »
    In MMOs I always play one main dude that uses my likeness. No other dude can be as badass as my main so all other alts of mine are female.

    Can the females be equal in badassery to your main? :/

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  • dgdolphdgdolph Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    4 Males & 4 Females, and I'm a guy ;)

    To be even more concrete - my top 3 PvP toons in order:
    1. Vulcan Female (Tac - DD)
    2. Alien Male (Eng - Healer)
    3. Trill Male (Sci - Support, CC, Debuffer)
  • kittyflofykittyflofy Member Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    admiraldunwall wrote: »
    kittyflofy wrote: »
    For god sake, stop making stupid useles polls, seriously.

    But does it matter though? Does this so severely hurt you that you can't go on in life?

    Some people will complain about EVERYTHING.

    No, what matters to me (and should for everyone) is that we are going to end with the forums filled with polls like this one, while others more interesting/important are going to be missed. Is that what you want? ok sir, no more arguing here.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    gulberat wrote: »
    freakium wrote: »
    In MMOs I always play one main dude that uses my likeness. No other dude can be as badass as my main so all other alts of mine are female.

    Can the females be equal in badassery to your main? :/

    Maybe his ladies are MORE badass.
  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    After making 4 males i turned out bored. Made 4 fems and 1 more male since and turn out less bored.
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    I fail to see the reasoning behind a second poll when the first was perfectly sufficient, but I suppose I'll lump my more accurate answer here too. Why not?
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