Lol awesome thread. I agree with all Sainted's points, we need more constructive competitions, threads and posts, and more fun
A point i would like to make is that if you do not attack a person or alliance in a PnP harshly enough, they dont respond at all. For example (they are going to hate me for this but oh well
) the no.1 alliance in Edessa had horrible stats, and i attacked them in top 12 threads along with other top alliances who were all playing safe. I attacked them within the rules, and used stats to back up my accusations. (
Post 211 to see) However i didnt get a single response from that no.1 alliance or any of the other allainces i attacked. A few days later i was forced to join the No.1 alliance that i had been smack talking, and i got this Private message.
As you can see i was told to keep off the world forums and not to smack talk. This is what is killing the forums. The players/alliances that do talk on the externals raise their profiles over the other alliances, and become a target. Once they are targetted and taken out, they stop posting and the forums die. This is evifent by the early activity then the drop off.
So how do we improve it?? Well obviously the alliances dont want attention, whether good or bad. SO improving the world forums must be done once the players are integrated into the other parts of the forums. So i think the only solution is more non-world specific competitions, more interesting OT, more non-world specific grepo talk, and more effort made by mods and
regular members of the forums to make this place better. I would encourage all alliance leaders out there to make being a member of the forums a requirement to join. If they have time for grepo, they have time for the forums. More diverse world types would be nice as well, a 1 off 1.26 world would draw many old players back to the forums, and a faster Hyperborea would be very competitive imo, although i understand these special releases have to be balanced with normal world releases.
Sainted: I personally have had a few good idea's for PnP's, and i would have loved to have done them, the only thing that stopped me was the knowledge that nobody would look at them, and the people who they involved would not reply. So i would get no return out of it. I remember the good old days when there was PnP wars, people would make PnP's, then the other party involved would make a counter-Pnp. However these days, a world is lucky if it has 1 good active PnP maker posting in its forums. So i dont think a PnP competition, or more PnP's in world forums is a good idea, because the makers of the PnP's would only be discouraged by the lack of response. To start with PnP's again we need to raise the number of active posters in the forums.
World release times is one of the topics of debate at the moment, and while i understand that new worlds must be released, and inno has to make money, i think the slower you release worlds the more healthy it makes competition both ingame and on the forums. But Shan is already working on that so i wont go further on the subject.
Anywat gtg to work, will post more later.
