Thread: Head count

Originally Posted by SpecOpsScott

Count me among the fizzled out. Cant stand the deathmatch extreme PvP servers... if i wanted that i would install BF, and i cant stand empty or brofest servers. I spent a ton of time on the rust server even making myself a target for new joins when they happened but that went no where. I'll certainly get back into it when they release more content as the populations should pick up, and there should be less servers online by then.

Why I'm think we need to group back together on a populated server. Get back to working together, going on night raids in rad town, massive farm quests.

Rumble if you made points that weren't already flushed out a hundred times over I would discuss it. If you want to try in pull this herd of cats into a new server great, if you want to stand alone on TPG, I assure you the death clock is counting down.

Originally Posted by Rumble

The game is in Alpha. It stands to reason that when the thousands of us who do actually play are done helping them with bugs and gameplay issues it will go into Beta. You can be assured that if it goes into an open Beta there will be tens of thousands playing it.
To expect high server population on an Alpha product is unrealistic.
If we are hosting a server at this time it is to help the game through testing. That's what an Alpha Test is.

Originally Posted by Rumble

The game is in Alpha. It stands to reason that when the thousands of us who do actually play are done helping them with bugs and gameplay issues it will go into Beta. You can be assured that if it goes into an open Beta there will be tens of thousands playing it.
To expect high server population on an Alpha product is unrealistic.
If we are hosting a server at this time it is to help the game through testing. That's what an Alpha Test is.

This is the problem with open alphas and open beta's. You play the shit out of an incomplete, buggy game, get mega burned out and in the end never bother to come back when the game goes live.

If the game is simply dying due to the player base burning out, we can always try and spice things up... change the way the game is played (e.g the extreme pvp servers do change the game mechanics slightly to naturally encourage this type of play). Or,I don't know how much the game supports it, but from the mmorpg's I''ve played and the few I've gm'ed for, one of the most effective ways to keep people interested is game implemented events, i.e. the game is doing something, not just some admin saying go __ here for coliseum fights, but like adverts that do 'type !coliseum to be teleported to fight' then have it like save your stuff in limbo and port you to the coliseum if you are not in combat. Or hell, if the game supports it, we can do forum games, if you win the game, we give you something in game. Things like that lets us to differentiate ourselves from the crowd.


Ultimately if we want to make any of our servers succeed, Look at what makes our server different not only from the crowded popular servers but also the dead servers... If all that seperates our server from high traffic servers is simply that players habitually congregate in such server, then we are in trouble, but if they also host events, or change the game play a little (daily restarts, item count degration, alter health values, etc)... Implementing such activities might help us form a player base...