10-03-2014, 02:12 PM
Well this game really needs a boost in promotion and be on Steam. I think the thinning of the herd is being noticed more and more by the regular player base.
Now from the stats there seems to be lot of players joining everyday but not too many are sticking around. Not sure why, my thought is that the current player base is quite experienced with the game and new players are get bum rushed out of the game.
I don't want to hear well your free to promote it, well if I had the resources and the skills/time to make promotional materials I would but I don't so on my part I run a set of servers that hopefully be around for a long time.
I know there is a new player server that doesn't allow experienced players to play but maybe we need some for minsta+hook, Overkill etc... Maybe a in game system that would disallow high ranking player from joining the new player server and then once the players get past a certain level they are also not allowed to join.
Maybe having a central YT/Daily Motion/or custom server say using Media Goblin channel that hosts videos made by players. With one channel it'll be easier to brand it and stick into peoples minds better "Oh yah need to check out the Xonotic channel"
Getting on Stream would put new player numbers fast for a time being but even if 70% of them leave that 30% could still be a huge boost to the populations and possibly the community gaining devs, video and art creators and etc...
I started a map repo site here http://www.killer.xxx but kinda ran out of steam/time to get more done on it and not sure if I even like the domain name anymore. In reality it would be much better to have it all under one site like xon.org or something similar that can be tied into with game videos/etc... but I guess not all maps are GPL/OS so hosting them for Xon.org might be a problem.
Although most of those maps predate Xon by many years it would still be an asset to say look there's 1000+ maps available for the game.
That's my 3hrs of sleep and 2.5 hours of driving to work this morning rant....
Now from the stats there seems to be lot of players joining everyday but not too many are sticking around. Not sure why, my thought is that the current player base is quite experienced with the game and new players are get bum rushed out of the game.
I don't want to hear well your free to promote it, well if I had the resources and the skills/time to make promotional materials I would but I don't so on my part I run a set of servers that hopefully be around for a long time.
I know there is a new player server that doesn't allow experienced players to play but maybe we need some for minsta+hook, Overkill etc... Maybe a in game system that would disallow high ranking player from joining the new player server and then once the players get past a certain level they are also not allowed to join.
Maybe having a central YT/Daily Motion/or custom server say using Media Goblin channel that hosts videos made by players. With one channel it'll be easier to brand it and stick into peoples minds better "Oh yah need to check out the Xonotic channel"
Getting on Stream would put new player numbers fast for a time being but even if 70% of them leave that 30% could still be a huge boost to the populations and possibly the community gaining devs, video and art creators and etc...
I started a map repo site here http://www.killer.xxx but kinda ran out of steam/time to get more done on it and not sure if I even like the domain name anymore. In reality it would be much better to have it all under one site like xon.org or something similar that can be tied into with game videos/etc... but I guess not all maps are GPL/OS so hosting them for Xon.org might be a problem.
Although most of those maps predate Xon by many years it would still be an asset to say look there's 1000+ maps available for the game.
That's my 3hrs of sleep and 2.5 hours of driving to work this morning rant....