When did you respond the general surveys? Or when will you? When should I respond?

[Natural Six]

I've been putting off the general surveys until I thought I had a good enough grasp of rules and play at the table to give better answers. The trouble, of course, is that "good enough grasp" changes each time there's another update, until you've put it off too long to be as helpful as you could. So here's my situation: My group has finished Chapters 1-4, and we're in the middle of running Resonance Test. My best judgement is that Resonance Test should be done with update 1.4 to get the data yon developers want, so I won't be running 1.5 and 1.6 until December, when my fifth player once again becomes available and we jump ahead to Chapter 7.

Those of you who have filled out the surveys on classes, magic, rules elements, and et cetera, what do you think would give the best bang for the buck? Do it now and get Paizo some more results, or wait until we've had a chance to use the last two updates, then send in responses at what will be the end of the playtest window?

[ErichAD]

I've been doing them when I completed the relevant portion of the test, and held off on the broad mechanical polls till after I ran and played a character who interacted with that system. I'd recommend just getting them done at this point, we're near enough the end of the test period.

[Doktor Weasel]

I've been doing most as they came out. But I put off the Class and Ancestry surveys until now, when I've played all the classes and ancestries that I was going to. This did make it a bit awkward going the Ancestry survey based on an earlier update.

Doing the surveys earlier seems like it would have been more impactful, considering the updates were based on survey data, so now all results just kind of go towards long-term planning instead of being acted upon sooner.