Plans to Raise the Population

[Venkman]

Ok let me first start with the gameplay.

- Whoever came up with the idea of making those Derelict Space Stations is a genius. Giving people chance to look for something, explore areas, go to places where they wouldn't usually go like those far away nebulas and so on is a good way to motivate them to log in and play the game. You never know what you're going to find on those bases, but sure is fun to explore and it definitely feels great when you actually find hidden base like that. I remember when I first found the Corsica Station in Omicron-85, it was great and so are these bases.

Scientific Data is also a great addition. I have yet to see someone gather 5k of those and request a unique POB model which if I am not mistaken is locked at the moment ( don't know for how long it will remain like that) . The fact that you can spent those Data on unique things such as weapons, engines and whatnot is fun and again you'll feel good after purchasing whatever you were collecting your Data for.
It gives you a sense of progression which is very important. We need more of those and people with good ideas should give their opinions and help make this Mod and give it more content.

I personally love grinding and mining and trading was so fun to me, but not to all players. I love mining - sitting hours in the field and shooting floating rocks isn't boring for me, but other players love action and are easily bored with trading or mining. There's also people who like competing, I am one of them.
A few months ago we had a list on the forum - a leaderboard on which you could see how many units have you sold/traded and being at the top or being first even included different rewards.

Giving players a chance to compete also improves the gameplay and makes them want to stay. I think that those leaderboards and events should start again, they should be short, for a weekend let's say and then the next weekend something else, like a rotating game mod on LoL.

Remember ΤΩΣO? That was also amazing and kinda easy to change/rotate. ΤΩΣO should be a thing once again.


Now something about marketing.
- Most of you know @sindroms YT videos. A lot of people came to this server after watching several of his video. Honestly they were fun and this Mod needs fun YouTubers. Uploading a video of an event is great it really is, but you will have better chance of luring the player to try the game if you upload something that isn't regular even or pew, but some shenanigans like Spazzy did.

There are a lot of funny people here that do funny things and if they start uploading those things we could interest some new players to give it a shot and try the Mod.

As for the Moddb... to be frank, I don't really go there nor I check the mods of the games and I don't know how many people came to the server thanks to the Moddb's marketing. I'd rather focus on YT marketing than on Moddb. That doesn't mean that our Moddb page should stay outdated or anything.

To sum it up; more content, more variety of things such as equipment, unique rewards and so on, and more YT videos.

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