Make a userbase in 1 easy step

Hello,

I read a rather depressing post about some gangster player world failing almost immediately because of your small player base.

Would it not be quite easy to simply make sure one of your servers such as Beholder’s is all set up with quests and stuff, even use the classic playerworld maps etc so that its actually fun and then simply spam loads of zelda fanboy sites with “a multiplayer zelda game”

Thats sure to drag the suckers in. Also open up your IRC channel so people with any nickname can log in… e.g start with me so I can log in :stuck_out_tongue:

and hopefully they will start making some userbase…?

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Lol, I haven't even worked on Sentinel in over a month :[
The 13kb char limit for online weapons scares me, the lack of a serverside playertouchsme annoys me. Then theres having to draw everything and 'blah blah blah'.

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It would be easier if Reborn ran on a 100% original codebase, but it doesn't. Being an unsanctioned spinoff of an already-known game is terrible for PR, especially when players have to be informed that it's an older version and isn't secure.

In my experience, even when GServers weren't a Graal taboo, a good world would have been lucky to hit 20 members, only 8 or 9 of whom would be online simultaneously at peak hours.

And because you still insist on a centralized listserver, it means Reborn is too big. individual worlds can't do their own advertising without pointing out that it has to go through here, which can be an automatic turn-off for some players, and for the rest it spreads the playercount like a thin sheet of butter.

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I don’t think that zelda fans will bother, i think we need to convert graal players, i think all these “new users” we keep getting but never see are trial account players that played servers like Unholy Nation, but they seem to just think “wtf, no players! bye…” We need atleast one practical working server finished and hosted regually, and to then log in to graal and pm everyone about gr constantly, if you occasionly convert one person, they will log in and think “3 players…bye bye” if you convert a big group of newbies in one go, they will think “oh, cool 10 players” and then they’ll actually bother to play again the next day.

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(Sorry for double posting, it's not letting me modifiy)

Stuff we need to get players:

Atleast 1 finished server, at the most 4 or somthing (otherwise its just going to be huge list with loads of number 1's, and 0s down the side)

A more persuasive site, its just plain and green at the moment, what i mean is like, graalonline.com now is a load of crap, its like TRY for FREE now then PAY US. MONEY MONEY MONEY!,
but think about before V5 it was great, it had lots of pictures everywhere, tons of information but at the same time it was straight forward, and it just made people think “awesome” and want to play straight away

To play more, makes it look like theres no people to new comers if we only exist on the forums and RC.

We then need to just log into graal with “guest mode” constantly and advertise and bug people like hell, downloading the client needs to be simpler aswell (it’s completely idiot proof atm!!!) so that people dont think “its not worth it” and give up, also then we can just pm links to the download, screenshot page etc etc.

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World of Warcraft? Ragnarok Online? Uses older versions?

I doubt even 90% of the people here have the knowledge of setting it up – also things like guilds, and other things were eventually 'hard-coded' in for easier use I guess.

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Actually they try to keep up to the very latest versions, makes it easier for people to get the client software too cough

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Sure, it's plain and green, but the layout is based of GraalOnlines website
http://www.graal2001.net/?theme=graalonline

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what i mean is like, graalonline.com now is a load of crap, its like TRY for FREE now then PAY US. MONEY MONEY MONEY!,
but think about before V5 it was great, it had lots of pictures everywhere, tons of information but at the same time it was straight forward, and it just made people think “awesome” and want to play straight away.[/quote]
Tell Joey to fix Listserver to work with my ServerHQ system and I'll add the function to add screenshots for every playerworld that is registered. 10 random screenshot-thumbnails will show up on the screenshot-page.

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[quote=Joey ]
World of Warcraft? Ragnarok Online? Uses older versions?[/quote]
Actually they try to keep up to the very latest versions, makes it easier for people to get the client software too cough[/quote]

Actually, we're trying to do this too, but the crackers slack off from time to time so nothing ever gets finished.

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downloading the client needs to be simpler aswell (it's completely idiot proof atm!!!) so that people dont think “its not worth it” and give up, also then we can just pm links to the download, screenshot page etc etc.[/quote]
Torrent isn't that hard to handle, lol. I'm always seeding the torrent.

If we put up rapidshare-links on the download-page. The rapidshare files will get removed because of Unixmads complaints.

The easiest way would be to figure out how to get Graal v5 to work with our system. Then people can just download the client from graalonline.com and download a patch for the game to work with our listserver instead of graalonlines.

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Ragnarok might, not sure but I know the WoW emulators always support the latest version really quickly.

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Umm, anyone with any name (provided you aren't banned) can go on the IRC channel, at times the channel may be +R (registered users only) but it's not exactly hard to register your nick. Just type
/nickserv register
and you're done

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Yes I know about the +R after bot attacks, it's somewhere else in forums.
Just letting people know that we never stop people from joining our chan.
Sorry about leaving for months, just been distracted by life.

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except if they're nazi… Noone wants the Nazis

Also back on the original topic, advertise on all those rpgmaker/gamemaker sites would probably net a ton. Openzelda / Rpgmaker2k2 / Beyond engines suck compared to graal reborn.