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Right now we have "commodities" and "rare commodities" as the two kind of materials in this game.  Thoughts?

I think it's fine.
1 (5%)
I think something with fewer connotations like "materials" and "rare materials" would be better.
1 (5%)
I find it confusing, and have a different suggestion for the name.
0 (0%)
I prefer "goods" and "rare goods."
0 (0%)
I prefer "common resources" and "uncommon resources."
5 (25%)
Three categories: Building Materials (for guardian power stuff), Common Ingredients and Uncommon Ingredients (for crafting spells)
2 (10%)
Three categories: Building Materials (for guardian power stuff), Common Ingredients and Arcane Ingredients (for crafting spells)
11 (55%)

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Offline zebramatt

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Re: Poll: Commodities as a name -- confusing or good?
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2012, 11:21:27 am »
Hybrid vote:

Building materials
Common ingredients
Arcane ingredients

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Re: Poll: Commodities as a name -- confusing or good?
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2012, 11:22:59 am »
Love that!  Added it as a new option, and transferred my vote there. :)

I think that's probably the thing I'll go with, unless anyone feels strongly against.
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Re: Poll: Commodities as a name -- confusing or good?
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2012, 12:42:14 pm »
I strongly support the Building/Common/Arcane option.

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Re: Poll: Commodities as a name -- confusing or good?
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2012, 12:49:28 pm »
Personally, I don't like the word ingredients. Can we use materials or resources?

That said, I like the building/common/arcane option.

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Re: Poll: Commodities as a name -- confusing or good?
« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2012, 12:59:16 pm »
I really prefer ingredients, because that's what they are: ingredients to make a new spell.  Materials or resources are so broad that they don't really add anything, if we're splitting it out into three categories like this.

And actually, we still are using the word materials: ALL of the above are materials, but the sub-categories are the three things noted.
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Re: Poll: Commodities as a name -- confusing or good?
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2012, 02:10:48 pm »
Okay, in for the next version:

* Commodities are now known as Common Ingredients.  Rare Commodities are now known as Arcane Ingredients.
** A few of the commodities are only used for guardian powers.  These are now in their own category, combined with consciousness shards (also used for guardian powers), called Building Materials.
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