If we had more influence what would you change?

[Keeps]

After choosing an option.  If you could contribute in some way, post what you are willing to do to contribute.

Clarified first two questions

[Dopha]

I voted in the first option, and I guess thats what we all want?

[Higurashi]

Voted for more content, as I always have. We have polls on this already, but since this thread is also taking another direction, I'll answer that one. Don't see much difference between choice one and two.

I'll keep it short and simply state I have +10 years of experience in the following areas/positions from either volunteer work in non-profit organizations (government approved) or simply in organizations (some started and ran by me): Moderator, Administrator, Operator, project leader, HR management, card game balancing.
I also enjoy writing, a little bit of digital art and I ran a martial arts organization for two years (teamwork, organization and budgeting). I'm also an English teacher (helps) and ex military special forces (mostly helps with fun). Woo.

[Raptor6789]

I voted for the third option, simply because Zanz probably has other priorities, but the ability to implement community-created content into the game would probably allow the game to flourish on its own in a new direction. The forums here are already full of user-created material (I enjoy designing cards), so there would be no shortage of content.

[Fippe94]

I don't really see the difference between option 1 and 2. More updates = more content, no?

[Higurashi]

Zanz usually only adds a few cards with each update. I think option 1 aims to specify that we'd like more content, such as the big change from T50 to Arena and the daily quests that have been discussed, as well as in-game Trials.

[TribalTrouble]

*snip*
I'll keep it short and simply state I have +10 years of experience in the following areas/positions from either volunteer work in non-profit organizations (government approved) or simply in organizations (some started and ran by me): Moderator, Administrator, Operator, project leader, HR management, card game balancing.
I also enjoy writing, a little bit of digital art and I ran a martial arts organization for two years (teamwork, organization and budgeting). I'm also an English teacher (helps) and ex military special forces (mostly helps with fun). Woo.

Somehow I don't picture much of any of this when I look at your avatar

Voted the first option, didn't understand the 3rd at all.

[Elbirn]

Voted for "Make our own".

The idea behind this would be as an experiment. Can a card game run by it's fans maintain a fun and balanced game?

EtG has been one of the most balanced CCG I've ever seen, but only because it doesn't have a bajillion cards. MtG, Yugioh, whatever, they all are afflicted by power creep. New cards make the old completely obsolete. There is no innovation, only making more powerful cards so that consumers will buy buy buy spend spend spend.

Now, if we had a community run project as a spiritual successor to EtG, could we keep from running it into the ground in the same way? Everyone says that they want more content, more cards, more everything. Well can we do that while still maintaining an atmosphere where every card is valuable, useful? Or will we find ourselves with a few thousand card types where a small handful dominate the meta?

Furthermore, Zanz has made it abundantly clear that he will not hand over the keys to his kingdom to anyone else. If you want to make changes to what he's done, you're going to have to make it yourself. Sorry

I honestly think an open source card game could be great fun, and with a strong community like this behind it, there's certainly potential.

[Powert]

For me personally I chose other, because Zanz needs to make a simpler password recovery system.Like for example on the "homepage", if hes gonna go afk for long periods of time. Reason being, I've locked out of my account for a little over a year with no email response back and I used to donate to the game too. A shame I overlooked that this game had a forums page though.

[vrt]

More regular content updates.

I guess I can write fanfics to contribute.

[Chapuz]

More regular content updates.

I guess I can write fanfics to contribute.

I share your vote. How can fanfics help?

[Marsu]

I don't see the need for really big updates.
Connecting forum and the actual game more would be great, and a small monthly patch (1-2 new cards, maybe minor balancing changes) would really be sufficient.