Making Rheinland more attractive

[Malexa]

[font=System]Guten Tag meine Damen und Herren!

Well, I thought of a Rheinlandish introduction due to the matter of fact, that we are talking about Rheinland here.
My purpose of making this thread is to point out a few things that Rheinland could use.
Furthermore this should be used for brainstorming and maybe getting some attention towards Rheinland.

I am aware this happened in Kusari before and I am witnessing it happens in Rheinland too.
Talking about this matter really worries me.
It is about the player population inside Rheinland space.

Currently there are two big active factions inside Rheinland space.
As you can guess that would be [RHA] and the [RM].

Some smaller factions like the ALG and REP-EX are also present here and then. REP-Ex is also becoming a bit rare.
The Hessians are something special, since their activity drops to nearly zero and suddenly they move around with 15 ships at the same time.
I still see some of thema round, that is why I count them in as definately active.


Looking at the lawfull side, we have the RFP as well, but since I joined this community I could never witness any real activity and comeback of this faction.(was it even verry active at some point?)

The unlawfull side is also verry thin. We have the Bundschuh, Unioners and the LWB to mention, but still the only ones with their flags at the front line, are the NPCs.
It dropped completely. Some time ago, we still had them around. Not many like the RHA were, but still a few to recognize their presence.

When I talk of "back then", it is mostly the old version of the mod. 4.84.
What is the case of the dropping activity inside Rheinland?

Is it the server population?
A clear no. Taking 10 minutes to log in, is a clearly sign that we have enough people around.

Is it the mod?
Yes and No. With 4.84, we still had some times when Rheinland was empty. Back then, only traders passed by.
The [RM] was pretty inactive too. I could witness this my first ranks. Suddenly it got a few new faces and some of the older ones came back. It managed to float again.
Suddenly the pirates and unlawfulls came back to Rheinland space and it got quite a good population and some action.

Now talking about the "Yes, it is the new mod". Maybe the new trading system cuts off the traders from Rheinland. No Traders means no Pirates around. No pirates....you know the rest.

So what could we change here? Place 2 Rheinland Battleships, a few shiny Wraths in front of Pittsburgh or Manhattan?
"Oh! 1 want 2! Giv big ship. Where I buy?"
That would not be really a sollution.
Still the most player density can be found in the house of Liberty.
A boon and a bane.

Do some of our community members know some ideas, how we could repopulate a house and make it attractive?
The [RM] playercount is stable now, the Ranks are filled. Rheinland is not.
Also the recruitment is reopened, but only populating the military wont help bringing it back to life.

[color=#33FF33]Malexa

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