Comstar Census

BattleTechnology Poll (Questions)

by Bob Carter

To be certain that we are serving the needs of all of our readers, ComStar has asked us to undertake a census of our readers with every issue. You may submit this census anonymously, however one entrant from each issue will be chosen at random to receive a three issue subscription or extension with BattleTechnology's compliments; this entrant will be chosen from those census answers which include a return address.

1) Issue Number (enter "13").

2) Are you a subscriber? (1 for yes, 0 for no).

3) Male or Female (M or F)

4) How old are you?

5) How many people will read this copy of BattleTechnology, including you?

6) Are you a MechForce member? (If not, and if you want to be, contact the FASA Corporation , Box 6930, Chicago,IL 60680. BattleTechnology and the MechForce are independent of each other.)

7) How many years have you played BattIeTech? (Including MechWarrior, BattleForce, CityTech, AeroTech,etc.)

8) How many hours a month do you spend playing BattleTech?

9) How many BattleTech books and modules do you own?

10) How many BattleTech miniatures do you own?

11) How many others play BattleTech with you? In order of 5=most, 4= second most, 3=third most, 2= 4th most, 1=least, and 0= I've never played it; rate which you play.

12) BattleTech

13) BattleForce

14) CityTech

15) AeroTech

16) MechWarrior

On a scale of 0= I hate it to 5=Wonderful, rate the contents of this issue.

17) News From the Home Front

18) Blood on the Snow

19) McKlostey's Valley

20) Fighting Spirit

21) The Price of Cannon Fodder

22) Guerillas on Glenmora

23) In Memoriam: Michael Hasek-Davion

24) Kurita Slays Steiner

25) Thornhill Arms Catalogue excerpt

26) BattleTechnology News Service

27) Tech Readout: Athena

28) Tech Readout : Flea-14

29) Scenario: Tales Your Mother Never Told You

30) Scenario:Death of a Regiment

31) Scenario:The Snows of Battle

32) Blueprint FLE-14

33) More Than Warriors

34) The Cover

35) Interior Photographs

36) Interior Artwork

37) This census itself

On a scale of 0= I hate it to 5=Wonderful, how do you rate the departments of BattIeTechnology? (Not all departments are present in every issue.)

38) WorldBook

39) Hiring Hall

40) MechTacs

41) Simulator: Scenarios

42) Simulator: Tech Readouts

43) Simulator: Rules Variants

44) More Than Warriors

45) Letters to the Editor

46) Technical Fact Articles like The Price of Cannon Fodder, Mech Engines compared, etc.

47) Action Accounts like McKlostey's Valley, Mech Flush, Blood on the Snow.

48) Stories and Tales in the 31 st Century like Fighting Spirit.

49) Background material such as Black Luthien, Pleasure Planet, or Solaris the Game World.

50) Personal arms data

51) Combat arms data

On a Scale of 1-5 where 1 =a lot fewer, 2=some- what less, 3=about the same,4=more, and 5=a lot more, would you like to see more or less of the following:

52) Single Combat Scenarios

53) Lance-to-Lance Scenarios

54) BattleForce Scenarios

55) AeroTech Scenarios

56) CityTech Scenarios

57) MechWarrior Scenarios

58) Coverage of House Davion

59) Coverage of House Kurita

60) Coverage of House Steiner

61) Coverage of House Liao

62) Coverage of House Marik

63) Coverage of Periphery and its kingdoms

64) Coverage of a specific region (like Raselhogue, Isle of Skye, Andurien

65) Longer fact articles

66) Longer Rules Variant pieces

More about you

67) Do you consider yourself to be affiliated with a specific House?

1 =no, 2=Davion, 3= Kurita, 4= Steiner, 5= Liao, 6= Marik, 7=Mercenary (primary allegiance is to your unit), 8 = Peripheral kingdom or regional alliance.

If you answered 7 or 8, please specify which one.

1 =yes, O=no

68) Do you play other board games?

69) Do you play other role-playing games?

70) Do you play other science fiction games?

71) Do you read science fiction?

72) Do you read fantasy?

73) Do you read science fact?

74) Do you play the BattleTech Computer Game?

75) Does your household own one or more computers? O=none, 1=1, etc

76-100) Not used this time.

Would you like to contribute to BattleTechnology? If so, please include name, address, social security number and area of interest/expertise with this census or separately, but include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for contributors' guidelines.

Is there anything you would like us to add that we don't currently include?

Is there anything you would like us to drop?

If you'd like to be included in "Where were you when the 4th Succession War Started?", send a paragraph describing the place you were in and your response to the news. Imaginary replies taking place in other than the 31st Century will not be included. Do not delay your answer; we have thirty Terran Standard days until entries must be closed so that the article may be compiled.


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