Post by generatorkiller on Jul 22, 2007 21:13:15 GMT
Okay, after chatting with everyone tonight, a whole bunch of problems became clear, along with some solutions to them.
- Recruitment. Absolute most important thing.
First stop for most people is our wiki page, which is in real need of an update. A seperate thread for wiki ideas may be best, but some ideas thrown out tonight included making it less cluttered/ long, redoing the design and adding "clincher lines" to get people to joni, such as referrals.. this one's good:
"<cloud6272>I've been with you guys what? a week. already gained 6 lvls"
since it pimps the "easy for newbies to find food" part.
- Retention.. keeping people interested once they've joined. We're getting a lot better at the whole X:00 thing, so the main thing is keeping people informed. 'arm's going to work on a "welcome pm" to send to everyone that joins these forums. Any other ideas are welcome.
- Outside connections - we could send zeug out on another forum tour advertising the calvert mall siege. I'd also be happy to do this.. if done as an invitation to join in the fun, it could work out pretty well, maybe even get a few player's zombie alts to join us.
- Salting the land - We've lost Dakerstown and Judgewood, and Roywood's looking a bit shaky too. Need some sort of strategy for regular "upkeep" on our NT's, to make sure the corner stays wasted.
Ideally, extinction's "dead zone" stretches from dakerstown/ roywood to quarlesbank/ gatcomben. Figuring out the best way to do this is all well and good, but worthless unless we have the numbers to do it. Which, at the moment, we still don't.
..just some random thoughts, as always
- Recruitment. Absolute most important thing.
First stop for most people is our wiki page, which is in real need of an update. A seperate thread for wiki ideas may be best, but some ideas thrown out tonight included making it less cluttered/ long, redoing the design and adding "clincher lines" to get people to joni, such as referrals.. this one's good:
"<cloud6272>I've been with you guys what? a week. already gained 6 lvls"
since it pimps the "easy for newbies to find food" part.
- Retention.. keeping people interested once they've joined. We're getting a lot better at the whole X:00 thing, so the main thing is keeping people informed. 'arm's going to work on a "welcome pm" to send to everyone that joins these forums. Any other ideas are welcome.
- Outside connections - we could send zeug out on another forum tour advertising the calvert mall siege. I'd also be happy to do this.. if done as an invitation to join in the fun, it could work out pretty well, maybe even get a few player's zombie alts to join us.
- Salting the land - We've lost Dakerstown and Judgewood, and Roywood's looking a bit shaky too. Need some sort of strategy for regular "upkeep" on our NT's, to make sure the corner stays wasted.
Ideally, extinction's "dead zone" stretches from dakerstown/ roywood to quarlesbank/ gatcomben. Figuring out the best way to do this is all well and good, but worthless unless we have the numbers to do it. Which, at the moment, we still don't.
..just some random thoughts, as always
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