KoL Community Survey 3/2006

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  1. How old are you?
  1. Are you male or female?
  1. Are you:
  1. What is your sexual identity:
  • Heterosexual: 86%
  • Gay: 2%
  • Lesbian: 2%
  • Bisexual: 8%
  • Asexual: 2%
  1. Does your spouse/partner play KoL?
  • Yes: 14%
  • No: 86%
  1. Do you have any children?
  • None that I know of: 91%
  • 1: 4%
  • 2: 3%
  • 3: 1%
  • 4: .5%
  • 5: .5%
  • 6+: .5%
  1. Do any of your children play KoL?
  • Yes: 3%
  • No: 92%
  • N/A: 5.3%
  1. In what country do you reside?
  • Australia: 4%
  • Austria: .5%
  • Bangladesh: .5%
  • Belgium: .5%
  • Canada: 8%
  • Chile: .5%
  • China: .5%
  • Croatia: .5%
  • Finland: 1%
  • France: .5%
  • Germany: 2%
  • Hong Kong: .5%
  • Ireland: .5%
  • Israel: .5%
  • Italy: .5%
  • Korea, South: 1%
  • Lithuania: .5%
  • Luxembourg: .5%
  • Malaysia: .5%
  • Netherlands: .5%
  • New Zealand: 2%
  • Nigeria: .5%
  • Norway: .5%
  • Pakistan: .5%
  • Philippines: 1%
  • Poland: .5%
  • Singapore: 2%
  • South Africa: .5%
  • Sweden: 1%
  • Switzerland: .5%
  • United Kingdom: 10%
  • United States: 65%
  1. How did you hear about KoL?
  • Referred by real-life friend(s): 57%
  • Referred by online friend(s): 16%)
  • Linked from a website or bb: 14%
  • Heard about it through another game: 4%
  • Other: 9%
  1. Are you currently:
  • Employed full-time, working mostly at home: 3%
  • Employed full-time, working mostly outside the home: 27%
  • Employed part-time, working mostly at home: 5%
  • Employed part-time, working mostly outside the home: 16%
  • A full-time student: 56%
  • A part-time student: 8%
  1. Please select the highest level of education that applies:
  • Still in Primary/Secondary School: 23%
  • High School Graduate/Equivalent: 19%
  • Some College: 27%
  • College Graduate: 15%
  • Art or Trade Certified: 2%
  • Some (Post-)Graduate School: 6%
  • Master's Degree or equivalent: 4%
  • Ph.D.: 2%
  • Graduate of the School of Life (no official degrees): 2%

How Do We Play The Game?

  1. How many active accounts do you have (on which you log in at least twice a month)?
  • 1: 91%
  • 2: 4%
  • 3: 2%
  • >4: 3%
  1. How many days in a typical week do you log into KoL?
  • 1: 3%
  • 2: 5%
  • 3: 9%
  • 4: 9%
  • 5: 20%
  • 6: 12%
  • 7: 43%
  1. How many hours in a typical day (in which you log in) do you spend on KoL?
  • <2: 59%
  • 2-5: 33%
  • 5-7: 3%
  • 7-10: 1.5%
  • 10-12: 1%
  • >12: 2%
  1. Of the time spent logged in on a typical day, how much time do you spend...
  • Adventuring:
    • <25%: 5%
    • 25-50%: 11%
    • 50-75%: 26%
    • More than 75%: 57%
  • Chatting:
    • <25%: 74%
    • 25-50%: 13%
    • 50-75%: 7%
    • More than 75%: 6%
  • Trading:
    • <25%: 62%
    • 25-50%: 28%
    • 50-75%: 8%
    • More than 75%: 2%
  1. Have you ever used a script to speed your adventuring (e.g. KoLMafia)?
  • Yes: 23%
  • No: 77%
  1. Do you often use a script for adventuring?
  • Yes: 10%
  • No: 90%
  1. Have you ever used a script for some other game aspect (chat, moving items into your closet, etc.)?
  • Yes: 13%
  • No: 87%
  1. For each of the following game aspects, rate its importance to you on a scale of 0 (not at all important/enjoyable) to 10 (absolutely important /enjoyable).
Average ratings:
  • Finishing the quests: 8.2
  • Collecting stuff: 6.8
  • Being rich/owning rare items: 6.6
  • Getting trophies: 6.1
  • Helping other players: 5.7
  • Ascending as much as possible: 5.5
  • Figuring out the game mechanics: 5.2
  • Being famous/infamous: 4.2
  • Playing the market: 4.1
  • Hanging out in chat/on the forums: 3.7
  • Being in an exclusive chat clan and/or chat channel: 3.0
  • Finding bugs: 2.8
  • Being on the leaderboards: 2.7
  • Owning at PvP: 2.2
  1. When you're stuck on a puzzle in-game, how often do you:
  • Figure it out for yourself-
    • Never: 2%
    • Rarely: 7%
    • Occasionally: 27%
    • Frequently: 39%
    • Regularly: 25%
  • Ask for hints in chat-
    • Never: 50%
    • Rarely: 26%
    • Occasionally: 17%
    • Frequently: 7%
    • Regularly: 2%
  • Search KoL forums and/or post in Help forum-
    • Never: 40%
    • Rarely: 18%
    • Occasionally: 26%
    • Frequently: 13%
    • Regularly: 4%
  • Use a spoiler site, such as Coldfront or the wiki-
    • Never: 10%
    • Rarely: 14%
    • Occasionally: 34%
    • Frequently: 26%
    • Regularly: 17%
  • Google-
    • Never: 54%
    • Rarely: 25%
    • Occasionally: 16%
    • Frequently: 5%
    • Regularly: 2%
  1. How often do you PVP?
  • Always: 3%
  • Never: 58%
  • Occasionally: 29%
  • Only to get access to a chat channel: 5%
  • Regularly, but only at certain times during a run: 5%
  1. Have you ever offered or accepted a trade in-game?
  • Yes: 64%
  • No: 36%
  1. Have you ever sent an item or buff to another player?
  • Yes: 88%
  • No: 12%
  1. Have you ever received an item or buff from another player?
  • Yes: 92%
  • No: 8%
  1. Has anyone attempted to scam you in KoL? (In a trade or otherwise.)
  • Yes: 24%
  • No: 76%
  1. Have you ever used an off-site trading site like KoLBay?
  • Yes: 4%
  • No: 96%
  1. How do you feel about the amount of content in the game?
  • I'm bored; I wish there were more things to do in the kingdom: 21%
  • I'm generally happy with it: 73%
  • I'm overwhelmed; I feel I'll never figure everything out: 6%

Clan Life

  1. Are you in a clan?
  • Yes: 88%
  • No: 12%
  1. How many clans has you main account been in (as a member, not just visiting)?
  • 1: 56%
  • 2: 27%
  • 3-5: 14%
  • 6-10: 9 2%
  • >10: 1.5%
  1. Do you talk to clanmembers in clan chat?
  • Never: 36%
  • Rarely: 27%
  • Occasionally: 20%
  • Frequently: 5%
  • Regularly: 12%
  1. How often do you check your clan message board (or external forums)?
  • Never: 17%
  • Occasionally: 42%
  • Every time I log in: 33%
  • More than once per play session: 8%
  1. How did you choose your first clan?
  • Answered ad: 7%
  • Friends from another game/site: 7%
  • Haven't been in one: 9%
  • In-game friends: 3%
  • Invited by another player: 15%
  • Made it myself: 11%
  • Real-life friends/family: 33%
  • Searched in clan recruiter: 16%
  1. How did you choose the current clan on your main account?
  • Answered ad: 6%
  • Aren't in one: 10%
  • Friends from another game/site: 6%
  • In-game friends: 6%
  • Invited by another player: 13%
  • Made it myself: 19%
  • Real-life friends/family: 28%
  • Searched in clan recruiter: 12%
  1. Do you use the whitelist feature?
  • Yes, regularly: 5%
  • Yes, occasionally: 15.3%
  • No: 80%
(Of those who chat more than 25% of their time, 35% use the Whitelist feature regularly/occasionally.)
  1. Do any clans you belong to ever hold events (in-game or real-life)?
  • No: 63%
  • Yes, both: 4%
  • Yes, community-wide: 6%
  • Yes, within the clan: 26%

As The Chat Turns

  1. Have you ever entered the chat?
  • Yes: 82%
  • No: 18%
  1. How often do you chat?
  • Never: 23% Once, and I'll never go back: 6%
  • Rarely: 27%
  • Occasionally: 17%
  • Most of the time: 13%
  • Whenever I'm logged in: 14%
  1. For each channel, select the percentage of time you spend chatting in or listening to it (of total time spent chatting) across all accounts.
Averages-
  • /clan:19%
  • /newbie:18%
  • /trade:13%
  • /normal: 10%
  • /games: 10%
  • /radio: 8%
  • /hardcore: 6%
  • /haiku: 5%
  • /valhalla: 5%
  • /veteran: 5%
  • /foodcourt: 3%
  • /pvp: 2%
  • /villa: 2%
  • /other: 2%
  1. Have you colored your chat channels?
  • Huh?: 40%
  • Yes: 28%
  • No: 32%
  1. How often do you roleplay in chat?
  • Never: 75%
  • Rarely: 12%
  • Occasionally: 10%
  • Frequently: 2%
  • Regularly: 2%
  1. Have you ever interacted with a bot in chat (e.g. chatbot, repbot, rafflebot)?
  • Yes: 38%
  • No: 62%
  1. Have you ever participated in a contest or game (trivia, etc) in chat?
  • Yes: 35%
  • No: 65%
  1. How often do you chat with KoLers outside of the game (in IM, IRC, or similar)?
  • Never: 48%
  • Occasionally: 19%
  • Rarely: 18%
  • Daily: 10%
  • Whenever I'm online: 5%

On The Way To The Forum

  1. Did you know before this survey that the KoL (Asymmetric) forums existed?
  • Yes: 84%
  • No: 16%
  1. Do you have an account on the KoL forums?
  • Yes: 40%
  • No: 60%
  1. How often do you check the KoL forums?
  • Never: 32%
  • When there's a real-life event I'm interested in attending: 1%
  • When there's an announcement and/or new content: 13%
  • Whenever I'm stuck on a puzzle or question: 8%
  • Rarely: 29%
  • Every few days: 10%
  • Daily: 5%
  • More than once a day: 4%
  1. Which forum(s) do you generally read?
  • Gameplay-Discussion: 48%
  • Community: 16%
  • Help: 16%
  • Contests: 10%
  • Random Ramblings: 8%
  • Lair of the Pretentious Artist: 7%
  • Ring of Flame: 6%
  • General Asymmetry: 4%
  1. In which forum(s) do you generally post?
  • Gameplay-Discussion: 19%
  • Community: 6%
  • Help: 4%
  • Contests: 3%
  • Random Ramblings: 3%
  • Lair of the Pretentious Artist: 2%
  • Ring of Flame: 2%
  • General Asymmetry: 1%
  1. Have you ever participated in a contest in the KoL forums?
  • Yes: 13%
  • No: 87%

Meating Us

  1. Do you play KoL with "real life" friends (whom you knew before KoL)?
  • Yes: 64%
  • No: 36%
  1. Have you met anyone in real life whom you met for the first time on KoL?
  • Yes: 7%
  • No: 93%
  1. Have you attended an organized KoL meetup?
  • Yes: 3%
  • No: 97%
  1. Do you have plans to attend a meetup in the next 6 months?
  • Yes: 6%
  • No: 94%
  1. What's the farthest distance in kilometers or miles (specify) you've traveled to meet other KoLers?
  • Haven't: 86%
  • less than 10 miles (16 kilometers): 8%
  • 10-100 miles (16-160 kilometers): 3%
  • 100-1000 miles (160-1600 kilometers): 2%
  • more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers): 2%

This-n-That

  1. Have you ever commissioned art from a KoL artist?
  • Yes: 5%
  • No: 95%
  1. How often do you listen to Radio KoL?
  • Never: 57%
  • Occasionally: 32%
  • Often: 7%
  • Whenever I'm logged in to the game: 2%
  • Whenever I'm online: 2%
  1. How often do you listen to WKOL?
  • Never: 84%
  • Occasionally: 12%
  • Often: 2%
  • Whenever I'm logged in to the game: 1%
  • Whenever I'm online: 1%
  1. Have you ever donated to the game?
  • Yes: 34%
  • No: 66%
  1. Do you plan to donate in the future?
  • Yes: 73%
  • No: 27%

Non-KoL Stuff

  1. How often do you engage in the following?
  • Other online RPGs (WoW, Guild Wars)-
    • Never: 37%
    • Rarely: 22%
    • Occasionally: 14%
    • Frequently: 9%
    • Regularly: 18%
  • Console video games-
    • Never: 16%
    • Rarely: 14%
    • Occasionally: 22%
    • Frequently: 18%
    • Regularly: 31%
  • "Real life" board or card games-
    • Never: 7%
    • Rarely: 17%
    • Occasionally: 39%
    • Frequently: 19%
    • Regularly: 18%
  • Pen-and-paper RPGs-
    • Never: 49%
    • Rarely: 19%
    • Occasionally: 14%
    • Frequently: 6%
    • Regularly: 13%
  1. How would you rank the amount of time you spend on KoL vs. time spent on other computer/video games?
  • Much less: 10%
  • Less: 27%
  • About the same: 26%
  • More: 19%
  • Much more: 18%
  1. How would you rate the quality of time you spend on KoL compared to other computer/video games?
  • Much worse: 2%
  • Worse: 5%
  • About the same: 53%
  • Better: 27%
  • Much better: 14%
  1. What other activities do you regularly do in your free time?
  • Watch TV/movies/videos: 80%
  • Play a musical instrument/sing/compose: 34%
  • Team sports: 20%
  • Individual sports and fitness: 30%
  • Reading: 75%
  • Digital art: 14%
  • Non-digital art: 18%
  • Computer programming and/or building: 24%
  • Legos, model-building, or other similar activity: 17%
  • Knitting, sewing or other textile crafts: 8%
  • Hiking, boating, hunting, or other outdoor activities: 28%
  • Dance: 7%
  • Writing: 33%
  • Animals: 20%
  • Community service: 12%

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