POLL: Defining Success

106 votes were cast by total voters.

20thmaine

writes:

My carefully researching what I want to get, placing the order and then, after gazing lovingly at all the beautiful things, carefully storing the whole lot against the coming apocalypse doesn't seem to feature on the list.

I have completed dozens of such fine projects….

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VOTING RESULTS
Answer	Votes	%	Chart
Stage 1 is a success	47	44%
Stage 2 is a success	1	1%
Stage 3 is a success	5	5%
Stage 4 is a success	10	9%
Stage 5 is a success	13	12%
other (explain)	2	2%
none of these/no opinion	10	9%
this is ridiculous	17	16%
not my cup of tea	1	1%

POLL IS CLOSED

POLL DESCRIPTION

robert piepenbrink writes:

As a follow-up to the previous poll on why wargame projects fail, perhaps it's appropriate to decide what constitutes either success or failure. I would suggest:

that a wargame project is a success if you assemble at least two armies, suitable terrain and rules and fight battles. (How many battles? Good question.)

I'd say it's a failure if you buy or build some of the necessary elements, but throw them out, give them away or sell them off without ever having what you need for a game.

You can tell yourself the verdict is still out as long as you have pieces of the incomplete project, but after a time, you're just lying to yourself. (How much time? Good question.)

You built it, but no one came. Is it a failure if the completed project attracts no gamers?

You cannibalized the project. Is it a failure if the troops, terrain or whatever were folded into another project? (For example, my 28mm Tudor English condensed scale DBA project never played, but was rebased for Lion/Dragon Rampant.)

Which of those five states do you regard as a success?

Poll set up by Editor in Chief Bill , based on this pre-poll discussion.