The BEST Idea for Increasing Playerbase (take it seriously)

[Davairus]

Those were just the angry ravings of an ex-player who was banned for posting who list into chatroom OOC. We have Imms and responsible players alike able to to ,onitor such places and all I can say about that is good riddance trash.

[Faelon]

[Erlwith]

[Vertas]

The best way to not decrease pbase is to play your chars... Stick with them at fifty, there's always trying to master all your skills, pinnacling your pet, and regaining your items when you die...

[Viggs]

The best way to increase the player base is and has always been word of mouth ,, If everyone got just ONE of our friends to play we double the player base.

[Mahkan]

not all of us have friends...

[Kedaleam]

Best way: Take away surge all together. Thus actually getting people to play on times other then surge.

[Thorgoth]

i agree 100% with taking away surge, but leaving in guild rewards

[Ceridwel]

Or better yet, making it perma-surge all the time.

[Davairus]

The church saw its population of worshippers rapidly declining as the world modernized, so they came up with the idea of "sunday worship" to pack the hall once a week and make it busy enough to stay interesting. Plus people like the idea of only having to spend an hour a week to get into heaven. Surge follows a similar principle. Nobody will be happy going back to church every day, except a few dang diddly bible thumpers. You can guarantee that one hour every sunday on AR isnt a total waste of time.

[Baer]

[Ergorion]

[Baer]

[Erlwith]

Going to wikipedia for accurate, valid information is like screwing for virginity.

[Davairus]

Let him believe what he wants, as long as he is making up his own mind. Fact of the matter is the church responded that way to losing its grip over people, and its a principle we use for surges. p/s/ perhaps you should go read about WHY people left for protestant groups

[Mahkan]

They had cookies.

[Mandor]

probably davairus, by looking at the play registry of people joining the forums, compared to the amount of people playing (12? laff), I'd say its easy to see that there is a bottleneck in people checking the game to people actually playing it.

Not surprising what and where the problem is, as it has been repeatedly stated by myself and others more than 4 years ago. I haven't tried AR in over a year because of the low pbase and exlcusionary cliche of imms that gestappo their own game right out of existence. (that and halfling thieves that outright murder, along with the near constant amount of people privately telling my different characters roleplay isn't required except when imms are around, or cussing me out and then talking about their bad day after my character kills theirs, all that made me lose interest too).

The last time I logged on, I got bored of a certain character and stopped playing as I lost interest. Recently I logged on to see whether it had changed at all, and I get a message saying 53 days remaining, connection lost, or something to that effect. I mean, looking at the threads on threads of why the pbase is low, and the fact its a public play MUD, advertised with voting links and all, it strikes me as funny that a person who did play before cant play for 53 days.

Now questions, why is it 53 days until I can play?

[Erlwith]

[Dispater]

I left school at 6th grade in order to focus on my mudding career. Spent 2 years mudding 18 hours a day, straight. That's as true as it gets.

[Vanisse]

we should open a send m1co back to school fund