This was suggest elsewhere, but i cannot find who suggested it or what thread. But I think it needs to be restated because now, several days since the last evaluation, the same problem exists.
I walk around to every Coalition, and the top suggestion is always winning "Not by much" (which in Adoulin Terms apparently means a couple thousand votes or something)... This is generally the Flag, or in cases of Flag already being owned, the Signboard.
I, as well as many others (talking ~50-100 people) have spent the "tags" we earned since Sunday spamming Peacekeeper's Coalition for A chance to chose Signboard, so far, its never budged an inch from Flag. I know 50~100 Is not a lot in terms of an entire server, But when you consider you actually getting that many people to conciously work on upgrading a coalition, and they cant even dent the outcome because of the countless Button-mashers who have no idea what their vote goes too simply spamming enter to collect their ~500~1800 Balyd... its a saddening revelation that the entirety of progression is going to be determined by whats on the top of the list.
With that said - The actually suggestion.
Default the top option to be "Abstain", Forfeiting your vote. With this, those who actually care what their votes go to and why its important to chose wisely can succeed in improving the Coalition... While those who don't care can throw away their vote like they always do, except this time its not going to impact the rest of us negatively.
Nothing is more depressing or pointless than spending the better half of 5 days working on the same coalition with dozens of players only to find out you aren't making any progress whatsoever.
Please, please, make the top/default option "abstain". Make it actually feel like those of us paying attention and working are making a difference.
As of now, there are apparently about 7 Upgrades, though only 3 currently available, and consider all Coalitions dont rank up simultaneously, without this option, it could be several weeks, worst case scenario months, before those working on improving a specific guild item see fruits of their labor, and will only see it once the option they want is the only one remaining or the top option.
This is not so much a "WE'LL NEVER GET IT" so much as an option i feel is needed, or we may as well do away with the voting system entirely because as it stands now, without the option, it may as well just be randomly selected on leveling up, cause our votes dont matter in this current system.
Sum it up: Nothing is more infuriating and depressing than to know your votes mean nothing to the ocean of Button mashers, and without a default "None" or "Abstain" option, voting is useless.