While I think Spazzy is pretty much the most successful provider of new people and returners with his YT-Channel, I can say that using "Discovery Freelancer RP" in the name of my YT-Channel has helped as well, since I usually write comments under videos of popular YouTubers without advertising. People click on my channel and see Freelancer stuff. That made some people curious.
So, maybe a few banners or something to use on other forums and social media would be cool. No need to shove them into people's throat when you can just make a picture in your signature that leads to Discovery.
(12-14-2017, 10:52 AM)Thunderer Wrote: Sarcasm enters the room. He is wearing a mustache. No one recognizes him. Sarcasm starts crying because he is unrecognized.
Try to give some of your time to sarcasm, dudes. He will be happy if he is recognized. Everyone deserves to be happy.
(12-14-2017, 02:53 AM)GrnRaptor Wrote: I intend to have children at some point, it's just not on the immediate to do list.
Nooo!!! we want more people not the end of the universe!! Besides remember that trip we took in the car when you slept all the way back home and had that funny cone around your head for a few weeks. Well having kids is no longer an option.
Anyways some things they may help. (Not anyone specific, but general things that might help not drive people away.
Don't make being in an official faction tedious, like the annoying official junkers just cause a cruiser quick docks on rochester and your blue gets away. Just let it go.
Don't do the bare minimum RP of being an arsehat to players just to pick a fight. Try actually role playing instead of pushing someone to fight right off.
Don't Meta/power game of course, or shadow log.
Don't go into a big huge argument/rage/discussions/insult flinging over someone having a different opinion than you.
Don't bait people into getting in a position to be reported, or go all report happy reporting any little thing right off the bat. Try talking to players explaining what they did wrong if possible without reporting them. I know some never respond or get all bent out of shape, then report but don't tell them you will.
I can't say we think about advertising when it comes to storyline work and, contrary to popular belief, our plans rely heavily upon the community that we have.
Though personally, I think attempting to gain new members with the community's present state will be wasted effort. Discovery has drifted from its former RP sandbox popularity to a more goal focused 'Don't do anything unless I gain something' type, evident by how few actually enter the server unless something is planned. What's more troubling is the uptake of people making ships, not characters and player factions ignoring or flat out rejecting the flaws of their NPC faction. Something that has generally watered down the rich diversity that once existed in favour of instant gratifcation.
Looking at so many new names in-game, I think you all are already doing the great job bringing them in.
But, then what happens:
1. We know lot of rules, but they know none. They wonder why everybody's killing their trader. Wow, how many factions! But why all shooting at me? What's contraband, I bought this goods fairly, for huge moneyz!? What does it mean: //stop ooRP in system?
2. Ok, they buy their first snub. Why my new shippie works on 90%, wtf? Hey, why I die in 20 seconds every time?
3. They trade more and get a GB. Why shooting others with a GB is not fair? They were shooting on my bomber yesterday!
4. They trade more and get a BS. They get sanctioned for swearing, or ganked, or who knows what.
5. They leave to play something more simple (we all do that too, time to time).
This will be like that imho, until we provide them solo player Disco, where they would grind knowledge, ships, skills and even fairplay logic.
Or we can give them systems we don't use (like driving school) and after reaching some point they could apply to be tested if are finally ready for starting in Pennsylvania.
We could start, by not driving away people from the interest in playing and dedicating time to DiscoRP. Lets face it, there are blatant favoritism here. Some peoples faction Ideas get created and approved almost out of the blue. There are some people who hold to many positions, and "clicks" that hog up role play veins, only in the interest of not having their part of the story line messed with.
To many of you use this place as a second life, and for most of us "Just-a-gamer" types, your snobbish attitude and circle-jerk ego stroking gets very old, and not worth the hassle of dealing with.
You will not get more people to play here by adverts, and YT channels, because once they get here and see what is under the surface they tend to get turned off. So, maybe start by taking a good look at yourselves first and then think about why the population of Disco has nose dived.
Maybe this is to brutally honest for some of you, but there it is, it is not an attempt to insult or downgrade anyone, it is just how I see it from my end of the keyboard.
First: /me gives Pepe a free cow came to Br and get one Pepe!
We have new ppl almost everyday. What we need is help em so they STAY in the game
The part ofthe "circlejerking" partially is true, but i wont mess much in that vipers nest because isnt trullt that worthy.
Other leaders are used to see me mocking "muh lore" or whatanot, that isnt because i disrespect or ignore RP, pretty much other way around: Lore isnt immutable, isnt set on stone. It should be affected by ppl RP and ingame doings.
And (thats just my personall point of view, sorry if offend someone) factions that keep "toys" only for the off faction id are the last in my scale of "relevance" in Discovery. Why? because of trying helping keeping ppl in game, teaching newcomers "the stones way" they instead sat over their toys and proclam whose RP is or isnt good, according to their will. As if ppl want those op guns or toys, need bow to em.
- 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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