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wezman1492
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OK..I have been on here for 2 years soon and the necropolis UK server has diminished greatly in the amount of active players. I pay for premium all the time neccessary and keep my caravan deluxe and shortening etc. I know it is your game and it is a cool one and I appreciate that..but the game needs new people.
In my humble opinion you should maybe run a new ad campaign to reach new players....if you have not already.
Otherwise I feel you will lose more players
Heres the thing without enough active players there is no way to sell the stuff you don't want to keep up with your stats...and eventually your quest %'s are very low and people get bored...and they quit
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01-28-2011 02:54 |
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Jaliladin
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I agree. A lack of new players is really messing with the economics of this game. Lower and medium level "good" items (not as in prefix but as in general desireability) have bottomed out in value, and it is nigh impossible to sell items that used to have several K in pop value just a couple months ago.
I don't have an issue with first generation players being able to ride an economic advantage (of being able to drop and/or buy better gear and then sell their old sets at a premium), but I agree with Wezman that the player drought affects everyone's enjoyability. Does anyone have any ideas of how to bring in new players?
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Originally posted by wezman1492
OK..I have been on here for 2 years soon and the necropolis UK server has diminished greatly in the amount of active players. I pay for premium all the time neccessary and keep my caravan deluxe and shortening etc. I know it is your game and it is a cool one and I appreciate that..but the game needs new people.
In my humble opinion you should maybe run a new ad campaign to reach new players....if you have not already.
Otherwise I feel you will lose more players
Heres the thing without enough active players there is no way to sell the stuff you don't want to keep up with your stats...and eventually your quest %'s are very low and people get bored...and they quit
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Why don't we do it?
The devs have said its not worth spending the money on huge expensive campaigns.
Ive seen one internet banner i think for bloodwars while ive been playing.
So, why don't you reccomend bws to your friends, or think of other ways we can help to increase the circulation of this great game!
I'd participate if someone found a nice way of doing this, with little or no cost.
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01-28-2011 03:42 |
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Szeszej
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You already have an way to advertise BW elsewhere - the links in your profile, FB integration and prolly some others like browser games top lists.
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Mortis
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There are still some working banners made by C47 which can be used. Try to put them in your profile or into your signatures on other forums you are visiting.
Maybe someone literary skilled can write some short game description. Some short summary and differences between Underworld and Necropolis servers and we can make some adverts or to put it into these game top lists for voting.
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01-28-2011 17:21 |
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Pops
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Registration Date: 10-22-2008
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there are a few ways for people to recruit friends and family to this game, its even a task (z5 i believe) to recruit one other person (on underworld)
it would be a good idea for someone to write a brief description, or even post links to bw wiki.
word of mouth, emails, instant messenger, facebook, just recommend bw as a boredom killer.
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01-28-2011 18:07 |
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The above post is not entirely accurate. I believe it needs updating since legendary update, so there will be more than 400,000 items.
Maybe i am wrong. In another thread i raised a question about this introduction transcript, but it turned out to be outdated and very much in need of an update to become accurate.
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01-29-2011 23:37 |
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Evangelion
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The general formula to count the amount of items:
(No of prefix +1) * (No of items) * (No of suffix +1)
(sum of all items) * 18 (quality lvls) * 2 (legendary)
The numbers of prefixes and suffixes must be +1 since no pref/suf is possible. Quality lvls already include +0.
Helmets: 20*10*19=3800
Ring: 29*3*21=1827
Amulet: 29*5*21=3045
Armour: 17*10*21=3570
Pants: 18*4*16=1152
1h melee: 21*10*23=4830
2h melee: 22*10*19=4180
1h gun: 1*7*1=7
2h gun: 1*7*1=7
Ranged: 1*11*9=99
Sum = 22517
I have no idea where did the number 22918 get from. That's 401 more items...
This needs clarification since I based my calculations on the auction system...
Anyway, 22517*18*2 = 810 612 unique items.
And to the list I'd also add server events.
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01-30-2011 02:00 |
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Ichor jnr
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What about advertising on a site like this? I imagine the cost would be small.
http://www.mpog100.com/
Another game I play gives you in game benefits for voting on sites similar to this.
I like unholyemporer's idea too, if someone did make some good looking flyers I could stick them up at my university in the computer suite, that would surely get us a few more players.
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01-30-2011 10:04 |
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OTNC
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At the moment, you get pop & premium as far as i am aware!
When they level up or buy premium, you get pop & premmy i think.
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01-31-2011 05:51 |
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Ba_al
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At the moment, you get pop & premium as far as i am aware!
When they level up or buy premium, you get pop & premmy i think. |
u get 1 day premmy if they buy 30 day and u get more days the bigger package they buy
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01-31-2011 09:37 |
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Miggymop
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Registration Date: 06-02-2009
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I like the idea that everybody (on premium) have the same baseline. Don't give out pop as a reward for recruting players. You earn your pop in the game...not by recruting or even worse...pay real money for pop. That would screw up the whole game plan I think. A reward in Premium days is fair and much better in my opinium.
I agree to all saying that the game needs more branding. A good thing is to get magazines (paper or internet) to write about the game. Don't have to be a huge article...the important thing is to be there and have the magazines write about BW. Best way is just to get on the phone and call the magazines. I bet they will be interested if someone gave them a proper introduction to the game.
The server is really dying and something needs to be done!
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Enea
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At one of previous posts someone mentioned FB. How about completely port game in facebook? There are plenty of games there. Majority of them are poor or worse, yet these you can call at least medicore have no problem with deserted servers. I don't know if this helps this particular server, but it's worth a shoot. FB it's a huge market. And BW as a whole, is already transated for few languages.
So it's question for devs. Is porting BW to FB is possible? I meant economics, no tech problems of course.
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02-02-2011 01:29 |
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sqeshu
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Registration Date: 10-03-2007
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what ?????
sorry enea, its BW, not farmville or other pig farm
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Ichor jnr
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I like miggypops idea, all it would take is a little effort. It would be relitively low cost.
Could also try having the vassel task at all zones, that would force players to tell there friends about the game.
I don't like the idea of porting this to facebook, all of those games suck. Some advertising on facebook couldn't hurt though.
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02-02-2011 02:21 |
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smierc
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relatively low advertisement cost? they're not paying that bit extra atm, and trust me, K2M Investment Advisory are doing just fine on what they're making, aint you lads?
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02-02-2011 02:28 |
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Jackel
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Well that doesnt change the fact that the UK Necro server is dying. I mean prices of everything went down by 80% in like 2-3 months. There is almost no PoP out there and everybody can feel it. Basically the entire server is just the old veterans who progress slow and have done all the tasks.
I think there should be a Necro patch. Shouldnt be that hard to do right? And seriously the operators can ask anybody and they would say its needed.
Perhaps something like double PoP(not double exp) from Arena battles? Would sure make that more interresting... With perhaps PoP instead of PoH for PvP in the Arena? Other things could include selling Junk to the system for PoP? Like lets say 1 Junk would be 60 PoP. This price could of course have variants. That would generate more PoP.
Basically a way of getting more PoP into the server before it bleeds out completely. Since I think that the server is in such a bad shape at the moment that even recruiting new players wont balance the server again unless its really massive.
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02-03-2011 21:15 |
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Moonbootsboy
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how about giving the lower players access to the clan armoury and market earlier in the game.
it maybe prevent that the below lvl 20 players get bored to fast.
i remember that i really hated it to be not able to buy an item or trade with a buddy at the beginning of the game.
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02-03-2011 22:02 |
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Ichor jnr
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Even just being able to trade form day 1 would make a difference..
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02-03-2011 22:44 |
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Kreepz
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tweaking the necro server could help as well as it seems to run with the underworld rules. Make some of the tasks easier eg. the z4 lgo one. Make the cost of bringing stat points up cheaper leaving more pop for the market or even having a different system for lvl'n up stats.
shorten the time of pillgramges down who really wants to spend 6hrs to fail 12 quests (non-prem) you need to get them hooked before they will start paying money for a game
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02-04-2011 00:48 |
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VomitorY
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Well,in necro,aside the player base,the problem is this :
You can get items in only 2 ways:
- Buying them from someone else
- Questing
With less players,there will be less questing. And with less questing,there will be less trade...
And,we all know that the best items are from pilgrimages.. Maybe fix that,because we do not want this to happen : http://r1.bloodwars.net/showmsg.php?mid=...&key=8b1d9c1f4f (courtesy of Evangelion)
Or maybe,make trade available earlier...
i don't know...
The thing is,necropolis is a forsaken server... Someone need to do something about it.
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02-04-2011 15:50 |
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OTNC
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Originally posted by VomitorY
Well,in necro,aside the player base,the problem is this :
You can get items in only 2 ways:
- Buying them from someone else
- Questing
With less players,there will be less questing. And with less questing,there will be less trade...
And,we all know that the best items are from pilgrimages.. Maybe fix that,because we do not want this to happen : http://r1.bloodwars.net/showmsg.php?mid=...&key=8b1d9c1f4f (courtesy of Evangelion)
Or maybe,make trade available earlier...
i don't know...
The thing is,necropolis is a forsaken server... Someone need to do something about it. |
Some of the best items i have seen have been dropped via expedition.
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