Worldbuilding Articles: 2025 Reader Poll Results

And we’re done!  Here are the results from last week’s poll.

Scoring Method

1st choice:  10 points
2nd choice:  8 points
3rd choice:  6 points
4th choice:  5 points
5th choice:  4 points
6th choice:  3 points
7th choice:  2 points
8th and thereafter:  1 point

Results

Sigl Recycling:  117
Essentia Capacity:  95
The Board:  88
Branch Affinities:  85
Corporations:  78
Sigl Fashion:  77
Attunement:  64
Country Affinities:  60

Conclusions

Honestly, I was surprised at how close the results all were.  Almost all the topics came in within 1 first-place vote of one another.  I was kind of expecting a few to get significantly lower ratings.

The only real outlier seems to be Sigl Recycling, which is the clear winner as far as popularity goes.  Unfortunately, it’s also one of the more difficult ones to do, since it has some major implications for how the economy of the setting works (which is one of the reasons I’ve held off on fixing numbers for it).  Still, it is important, so I should really get around to it.

After the #1 slot, though, all of the others are clustered fairly close together – the gap between ranks #2 and #8 is really not very big.  So I’ll probably do #2 through #8 in one large group.  Most should be relatively short, although some (like Corporations) will be their own mini-series.

Oh, and as for write-ins, the most popular was Animal Sigls with 14 points, followed by several asking about various secrets and mysteries of the setting, which unfortunately I had to disqualify.  (Come on, guys, ‘Beginner’s Guide’ means ‘general introductory knowledge’, not ‘closely guarded secrets’.)  No breakaway favourites, in any case.

In any case, the 8 topics above should amount to another 10-14 articles or so, which’ll probably provide me with material for a full 6 months-ish of worldbuilding essays, possibly more if I go down some side tangents.  By the time that’s done, we’ll probably be approaching the release date for Book 3!