Larian Studios Forums Dragon Commander Dragon Commander - General Political Poll Question

Quick question about this poll: does it take into account multiple playthroughs?

I'm not saying this poll has to be scientific research and all, but for any kind of accuracy you would need to figure out some way of seeing which responses are genuine vs. which ones are just players experimenting with the game's story.

I know this is just for entertainment purposes only and all that. I am just curious about what the results would be like if we had some way of removing the "errors."

I'm fairly certain that the results are taken anonymously. That means that each result collected is taken without knowing WHO did it and whichth playthrough it was.

We indeed don't know who voted what - each outcome has a counter associated with it which just increases every time somebody votes on something.

"Genuine"? As in: What the player would have done if he was indeed emperor in a Real Rivellon, with complete dependency on others for the wording of his laws, and no ability to answer beyond yay or nay?

The game couldn't possibly know when the emperor represents the player (approximately) and when the emperor is just making decisions at the player's pleasure (or despair, as yaaaaaaya-kill-them-all / nooonooo-do-nothing can be a frustrating pair of options).

There's no concept of genuine responses here. You might say that if they go back a turn (load game) upon reading the news or receiving bonuses and penalties, then it was just a test. (And we wouldn't want the game to get into that kind of information anyway.)