I've created a survey just to gather information about today's TW players. This is survey Monkey and it's free for up to 10 questions and 100 reply's. We have 23 responces so far, and I will make the results public without commentary.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9VNBQYG

Thank you for your time!

Good Job! 31 responces for far

You said we can respond 100 times right?

I per IP, how many IP's ya got?

Well via proxy...you can do unlimited

Survey Results with 35 replies to date

When did you first start Playing Trade Wars?
1980's 20.0%
1990 - 1994 62.9%
1995 - 1999 14.3%
2000 - 2004 2.9%
2005 - Present 0.0%

2. How long did you play?
Less than 1 year 2.9%
1 - 3 years 8.6%
4 - 8 years 31.4%
9 - 15 years 17.1%
15 - 20 years 0.0%
Never stopped 40.0%

3. Many players leave and return to play again years later.
Did you take time off? Are you thinking of playing again?
Yes 58.1% (18) 41.9% (13)
No 60.0% (6) 40.0% (4)
1. off and on a few months at a time
2. 6 years
3. 12 years
4. from around 2004 untill last fall
5. a month here and there
6. over a decade
7. 10 years
8. 8 years
9. 1 year
10. 10 yrs
11. Took several breaks of one to three years duration. currently playing
12. Few yrs
13. couple years, ive played on and off since the bbs days
14. 8 years
15. 3 years
16. 10 years
17. few years when the internet took off and bbs' died. Loved the Twar helper.
18. years
19. 6 years
20. sometimes a year or two between playing while i travelled.
21. a year here, a year there
22. years
23. 10+ years
24. 2 years
25. 8 years

4. What level player would you consider yourself to be then and now?
Then Now
New Player - referred to as Newbie
or noob 71.4% (5) 28.6% (2)

Aquainted with the game - I know
the basics 44.4% (4) 55.6% (5)

Experienced - I've survived til the
end in most games 52.6% (10) 47.4% (9)

Expert - I've won games 40.0% (4) 60.0% (6)

Pro - I've won tournaments 83.3% (5) 16.7% (1)

Programer - I write my own
complex scripts and know the
mechanics of the game. 20.0% (2) 80.0% (8)

1. I never bothered with scripts and such. I'm sure that's totally jacked up the game. Make people play the game. Don't let them script through it.


5. What size universe do you prefer to play on?
answered question
500 - 1000 2.9%
1,001 - 5,000 25.7%
5,001 - 10,000 17.1%
10,001 - 20,000 54.3%

6. What kind of time limit do you prefer?
3 hours 28.6%
4 - 6 hours 8.6%
7 - 10 hours 2.9%
Unlimited time 51.4%
2. less than a hour at a time
3. Time limit? Dude. They're called turns. If this becomes a Facebook game, it should still use turns.

7. Do you prefer to play MBBS or TWGS mode?
MBBS 14.7%
MBBS Gold 20.6%
TWGS Gold 32.4%
TWGS Gold - MBBS Battle Odds 14.7%
What the heck are you talking about? 2.9%
Other (please specify) 14.7%
1. I prefer to play on my BBS so I guess that would be TWGS mode?
2. doesnt matter
3. open
4. I remember the WWIV, Telegard, Renegade, etc. versions (which I guess was
actually one version that ran on all of them). Didn't have any bells and whistles
beyond the available mods.
5. Doesn't matter.

8. Stock ships and planets or edits? If you like edits, what are your favorite ships and planet edits?
1. been years since I edited anything.
2. Wildstar's Revenge
3. stock
4. Space balls 1,2 and 3
Moo2
Pirates
UTW's Trademark edit
SZ
5. i like edits...planets that bulid quickly.. most ships have twarp and 200 + hold
6. I like warpable ships with 250 holds
7. pirates, poker run
8. Stock
9. Iss
10. Stock blows.
11. Stockish. Slightly faster cits and an upgraded Havoc for reds.
12. i like stock with 1/2 cit times
13. Subzero Edits. Star Trek Edits
14. Stock ships mostly, but balanced edits are ok.
Planet edits can be fun, as long as everything is balanced.
15. Edits-Battlestar and anything with super producing planets,mega-hold ships and cranky alien races
16. Stock
17. stock ships and planets
18. Stock
19. Stock Ships for the most part.
Subtle Planet edits
20. I like to add a slow ship with many holds and a t-warp, but almost zero
offense/defense.
21. Stockish with a few gold ships or planets. Under 2,000 turns
22. loved some of the star trek edits...can't remember much of them now.
23. n/a
24. stock
25. Only really played vanilla TWGold games.
26. if i'm running the game, everything!
27. i don't have a favorite.
28. no sure
29. star trek, subzero
30. I'm fine with anything, but you should have games for classic, mod, themes (ex. startrek)
31. N/A
32. stock is fine. Just dump the ability to do 0 turn mapping and bot playing
33. Subzero
34. I have a custom set of Trek races I've started on. At present, I have the Federation, Klingons, and Borg in game, each with at least 5 custom ships (the feds having 8-9, I believe). I also have 3 custom planets and 2 other custom ships.
35. Sub Zero and Fusion edits

9. Are you interested in helping with the Beta Tests?
Yes - Please telnet to twgs.21-6.com:23 39.4%
No - Thank you! 51.5%
What's a beta test? 9.1%

10. Where in the world are you?
1. USA
2. USA
3. US
4. Kraaken Univers
5. Canada
6. usa
7. USA
8. USA
9. usa
10. USA
11. US
12. USA
13. u.s.a
14. USA
15. USA
16. Usa
17. usa
18. canada
19. USA
20. USA
21. USA
22. USA
23. USA
24. USA
25. USA
26. usa
27. usa
28. USA
29. us
30. USA
31. N/A
32. USA
33. usa
34. USA
35. US

And what does all this tell you ? Some stuff of interest there... but how are you going to use this ?

Using this to promote the Beta Server, to let people know the game is being worked on once again.

9. Are you interested in helping with the Beta Tests?
Yes - Please telnet to twgs.21-6.com:23 39.4%
No - Thank you! 51.5%
What's a beta test? 9.1%

I think mostly it just confirms what we already know. I'd like to get more than 35 replies. The survey is still open.

Next I would like to create a marketing results survey for new and returning players to try to find out why they come back and where they heard that TW was still being played, or something along those lines.

Well I'm happy. Two Canadians show on that list, eh?

Hello
IMHO you putting the cart before the horse.
All your work is in vain until we have a (I don't want to say Beta, I want to say Released to Sysops) version.

As someone that has seen tradewars in the last 5-6 years and the decline in servers/players let me say one of the BIGGEST reasons of the decline was the developer/owner of Tradewars ignoring the bugs, and no new development.

We as a community have heard about the newest features i.e. JumpGate comes to mind and Guess what it is fubared.

As someone that knows someone from Missouri..... Show Me.

Burn us once shame on you... Burn us twice shame on us.

theres a lot to show your friend from missouri, maniac. first is show them how to drive.. next is show them how to talk without a stupid accent, then show them how much their state sucks.. so they can drive non-retarded like to the north and speak clear english when they get there

I figured it was you and Daala

I am actually the other Canadian in the survey ... i guess there are 3 Canadians still playing