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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9115740" data-attributes="member: 7034611">I sure hope so, because I flat out told you why I did it. Your need to contradict everything, including me telling you why I do something rather than just what I am saying, is a bit weird thoughI did not do that because of your Coke statement, as I had said. I said it because your position is a combination of unfounded claims, contradictions and plain nonsenseor rather, you provided nothing that rises to the level of evidence and therefore I summarized it as 'I do not know' for you. Would have saved you hundreds of words and still be accurate.Your position is 'WotC is a large company. Large companies know what they are doing and would have considered all concerns being raised here. Therefore WotC conducting the survey the way they do shows that there is no issue with it', which as far as evidence goes I find quite a bit lacking. I summarized your position earlier as 'I got nothing, but I am not convinced by your claims', and this is still all it is, you just needed a lot more words to get thereI would differentiate between the two if WotC did. As it stands, there is no need for that. If you want to insist on there being a difference, then you have to show 1) that WotC has defined ‘good design’ differently from ‘popular design’ and 2) is using a different metric for this, that wins out over the popular vote. If you do neither, then WotC is equating the two, just like me. So far you have not been able to show either and have agreed with me that the popular vote wins out even if there were a second metric, so....This does not show that WotC is using some other metric for good design, in fact it reinforces that they do not.Nice to hear, so we finally agree that they use the percentages to decide what to include / improve / abandon. Until now you claimed that this is not what they are looking for and that is why they are not asking for it explicitly.So now we should be back to 'are the questions they are asking the best way to get to the answers they are seeking', and my answer to that is still 'no', and you still have not explained why it is a good way.good = popular. Until you provide WotC’s definition for good design and that is different, you have nothing to counter with, as usual. All you do is express your incredulity, that is not an argument, let alone evidence.They have metrics for balanced, but not for good design, which is why they ask us about the latter, not the formerthey have some ideas, so it is not entirely random like you pretend is the only alternative, and numbers are about balance more than design. If they were so good at this, 4e would never have happened and 5e wouldn’t have subclasses rated in the 20s.... this already shows you wrong</blockquote>

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