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Taisharaman Wrote:If there is going to be a vote on the server, what happened on ARP needs to be avoided. People were making sock puppets to sway the vote. Also the poll results should be hidden during the polling period so as to avoid the problem of people voting what is seen as the most popular selection instead of........Ummm....Those from ARP, HELP! I'm a little foggy as to what happened there and I need your brains.
The community ended up being divided between those who wanted to stake out an unofficial RP server and those who wanted to build the unofficial RP server on the unofficial "hardcore competitive pvp" server for the sake of higher population. Add in multiple polls and NCsoft trying to throw in a poll of their own after the fact and the entire community became a warzone.
I'll agree that if we want to avoid that problem, we need to make a poll with hidden results until it concludes. If we can prevent people from rolling multiple accounts, that's great as well. I think Averis disabled new registrations during the poll period, which was unfortunate but necessary.
Keep in mind though, as I mentioned in the 'What-ifs' thread, there's much less need for people to try and stake out a special-interest server in an international and PvE-focused game. I'd hope that we don't have people fearmongering about server populations and the need for a competitive environment when the game lacks any such form of competition, but there's no guarantee for that, so I'll second the suggestion to hide the poll results (its just a good practice in general), but maybe we don't need to worry so much about shutting off new registrations in this case.