Total of 169 votes

Keep it.		33.7
Kill it.		36.1
More cash, less drops		20.7
Less cash, more drops		9.5

Comments

Cheers

Shadey, and yea, keep it.

-- Flamey

Keep Drops, decrease $ reduction

We need a "Same drops, more cash" option.

-- Demigod

Keep it but....

Have all rares spawn through drops, not just 50%. And don't decrease the cash rewards any more than they already are =)

-- Picasso

Make it go awaaaaaay

-- gols090

Hmmm?

i vote for the same drop rate and lower the cash penalty . oops it's not there for some reason.

-- Thak

Everyone would pick that

Same drops, more cash? Why wouldn't anyone pick that?

-- Flamey

DIAF

Keep It, I don't want the whining to ever stop!

-- AdminQBnovice

Keep Cash where its at, Increase % drops

Don't decrease cash rewards any further, please; it's already bad enough.

-- Solare

Demigod:

then choose top option.

-- AdminShade

I did

:)

-- Demigod

How about a poll on if you got a drop and like the change. Since most people who got one love it.

-- QBRanger

Kill It! And...

^_^ Give us back our origional cash rate, and raise it by 20% moah! lol...=P Seriously, no one item and i've been burning through 320 ba every single day. so I want meh monie's worth.

-- KittehShinobu

I will say what I said before. Make the drops special. Stuff you can not get in auctions.

-- miteke

Same cash amounts as before and harder to find items.

-- Burton

Ba costs? (expecially NcB BA)

Lower BA costs? Oh wait, this may not be the place to talk about BA costs. Please disregard anything regarding BA costs that you may find in this comment, because BA costs are not discussed here. :P

-- Eurynome Bartleby

Kill it

I'd like to see the percentage of those saying "keep it" that actually got a drop, compared with those saying "kill it."

More randomness is NOT a good thing in CB.

-- Lord Bob

Swap them with Blood Vials.

Until then, kill it.

-- Goodfish

None of the above!

None of these "Options" fall under anything I want therefore no vote from me. "None of the Above" should have been an option.

-- Zenai

Addendum

While my previous comment still stands, I gotta say I too hate randomness in CB. So, it the drops stay (Which I hope because I like them...) they should only bring with them a very small drop in rewards (Like, 5%) and a very small chance of getting an item. More ''novelty'' and less ''forcing''.

-- Eurynome Bartleby

Kill it,

kill it with fire.

-- Admin{CB1}Slayer333

Give us an Opt Out Option.

-- FailBoat[SG]

Suggestions:

1.) Drop at a fixed rate every 1600 battles or so. The randomness allows some to get likely while others can be forever screwed.

2.) Reduce rewards ONLY for the people who get the drops for about two days. In the two days after you got the drop and while your rewards are lowered, you can't get another drop.

-- Lord Bob

From the Random Item Drop Thread

Before we could make a Poll we would have to agree as a community on the options in this Poll.

My Suggestions are as follows:

1. Lower the Percentage from 20% to 10%

2. I would rather have a higher Drop Rate.

3. The option to buy the ticket for a Day/Week/Month is better.

4. Make it a Wacky Time or Day once a week!


Feel free to agree or disagree or add to these points. :)

I dropped these off before.....just maybe a few things someone may be interested in :/

-- Zenai

All I know is that I want my money rewards back please.

-- Soul Eater

I'm with Nov!

Let the moneybags continue to gripe!

-- QBBast

My vote

Can't we just make this an opt in system? You choose more cash or chance of drops? Seems like that could make everyone happy.

-- Vaynard

Moneybags?

The moneybags are griping?

I haven't used USD in a coon's age.

I have won two drops.

I still think this change is the most brain-dead modification since...well, ever.

Who are you referring to, Bast? Nov?

If your impetus for supporting the change is to cause some fun trouble, then that is testament, indeed, to getting rid of the abysmally retarded concept, no?

Or has the game simply become a game of fun meta-politics for you? If so, I would make the very solemn request you exit. At the very least, such an attitude isn't going to help with retention, as some folks seem to be reasoning as far as this new drop thing.

Make up your mind, and act on it.

-- QBsutekh137

I'm not even gonna read the above posts...

Cause BLMoA wants ALL the cash and ALL the drops and ALL THE MUSHU!

-- j'bob

Heck yeah. I got it, guys.

Solution to everything: Make cash rewards ZERO and make GoM's drop on every other fight.

-- Eurynome Bartleby

Kill it

Just kill it.

The only better option would be "almost the same cash as before the lottery, same auction spawn rates as before, EXTRA drops from combat" :)


-- Sickone

with novice

If you get rid of the drops change, Ranger will remember the Exbow. Keep it.

-- QBOddBird

kill it...

...cook it, feed it to your dog, then eat your dog.

or maybe just have more cash less chance of drops

-- Untouchable

Kill Kill Kill Kill

-- Mikel

No OB,

I have not forgotten about the exbow. It is just after 1/2 this changemonth has passed, my glimmer of hope that a well known, highly abusive item would be fixed is burnt out.

2+ years of this exbow crap and still counting.

-- QBRanger

Kill it

I voted kill it as it is 100% ridiculous but I'd have to ask all those who received something either have it deleted or at least donated to TourneyPrizes as things would need to even out to prior to the change.

-- Zoglog[T]

keep it for now!

i voted keep it due the fact that we didn't have a keep it until we get some data in and see what is going on.

my hopes though are that all the rares can be distributed in this manner without any more cash reward loss or that the cash reward loss can be tweaked more leniently if the economy allows.

i applaud jon for trying it and can see where it might help with user retention. i am definitely willing to give it the time needed to see if that pans out though.

-- Admindudemus

How long?

Do we let this last. Some people are already on their 3rd drop while a lot of others have gotten nothing. We already have a discordance of 3M vs 0 in drop worth. how much longer do we persist?

As for the "moneybags" griping, I can buy a million of CB and easily catch up to where my rewards would be without a change. I am thinking about those who do not spend USD as this effects them far more than me.

-- QBRanger

"Do we let this last."

well to see if it has an effect on player retention, i would expect it to go on for at least six months to rule out normal seasonal changes.

for the economic side of it, i would think a few months of data would be able to determine if the amount of reward reduction was the correct one.

-- Admindudemus

Not voted

Did not vote since I'd prefer some of the suggestions made in other comments - vote for another system. Something that bugs me, 20% cash less hard coded - I'm not sure whether the random item drops are a proper compensation for that or not. Would need more numbers for that (average amount of money less of a full BA day, chance for an item per full BA set / day).

Vote for change.

-- PoisoN

I like anything here that makes everyone else but ME whine and cry mwah hah hah!!

-- Shark

Make it Adjustable

make it so you can lower $ rates yourself to increase drop% and vice versa so if you dont want any drops then just adjust and if you do then adjust. sound good?

-- Pwned

Made a slightly different poll.

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002nsT

The poll is slightly different, meaning it's actually 3 polls in one, covering different aspects of this issue.


-- Sickone

Optionals...

^_^ Why not make it into a Option you could turn On or Off, but once you set your option once, you will have to pay a heavy fine to change it. ^_^ This way those that dont want drops can fight at their original rate, while those that want it, get drops at the reduced rate. ^_^ I know its going to be very complex to try this with lots of bugs, but its just a idea...

-- KittehShinobu