Twitchy Questioning 12: A Twitch of the Horsequestions

(Apex mission briefing www.masseffect.com/apex-missions/apex-mission-brief-13)

I'm a bit curious about the choice of 4 dots per voter - I'd guess that most of us could have easily spent more.

Is there some statistical significance to that, or... ?

Thanks.

The old name of the technique is N/3 (pronounced "N over 3" as in "a number divided by 3") which is the guideline for how many votes to give people: the number of things being voted on, divided by 3. Generally rounded up.

11 categories / 3 = 4 (rounded up)

It is deliberately only a few votes to force people to prioritize.

Wikipedia has a (only somewhat comprehensible in true Wikipedia style) article about dot voting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-voting
And the more general term, Cumulative Voting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_voting#Voting

If you've ever voted your shares of stock (like electing officers of a publicly traded company), that's typically cumulative voting. I don't think there are any U.S. states that still use it, but maybe some localities do.

Their telemetry probably tells them how many games of each difficulty end in failures.  If it also tells them that most of the failures occur on a specific objective, I would think they might ask themselves why, and reconsider the design of that objective.

Ideally, all of the objectives would be roughly equal in difficulty and failure rate.  Otherwise, some teams are sort of relying on 'luck of the draw' to determine whether they complete a game - or not.

I do think they monitor balance changes and whatnot to see what kind of impact it has overall.

Let's hope that's the case.

UI: Since we have so many weapons in the list now, would it make sense for variants be placed in a folder structure under their respective weapon type?

Might be small things, but some variant weapon cards have typo/mislabeling.
bsn.boards.net/thread/12198/gave-me-counterfeit

Can we find out what the Angara Avenger actually says when her shields go down? I'd love confirmation that it's exactly what it sounds like (avatar related)

No lies, it sounds like she says "Pound the blowjob, my shields!"

All joking aside, she's my favorite character and I'd like to know what she's saying! Has to be something in the Angaran language

Angaran for blowjob still equals blowjob

need to keep my ears open as I don't know how I could miss hearing that...

Here's something fairly unimportant that's puzzled me for a while now. Why do some guns track up and to the right, regardless of which handedness I'm using?

Edit: gif added below