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Offline CHHs Cyan

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Building this comunity , with your help
« on: March 29, 2010, 03:44:37 PM »
firstly, one of my favorite things about this game is the community, its a niche game with niche players, we mostly all like the same things and have similar opinions....
so what im suggesting is several levels of co-operation to help build the community and make it as a whole , more appealing to the casual crysis player.

idea 1.
we each try to personaly recruit someone new, ive done it a few times , at this point i just ask anyone whos on my steam list playing crysis.

idea 2. those of us with skills making websites/forums signatures and other various computer relates skills, help those who haven't. someone might want to make a clan but not know where to get a forum, or design/moderate it

2.1 , if say we make signatures for our friends and they use them on other forums then it will advertise the game and bring it to peoples attention. as well as a good forum might be used by the MWLL player for him and his friends who play other games, and they might get curious what its all about.

idea 3. some of us have the ability to host servers in our home, essentially for free, obviously we cant do this for everyone so it would essentially be first come first serve, but of those of you who are wiling, they set an example and as the comunity grows maybe more servers for clans will open up, personally i think we have pleanty of servers for the current community size,but having your own server is part of having a clan imho.

idea 4. we run events , community wide , once a month where we all try to play MWLL, try fill as many servers as we can a saturday or sunday maybe 9pm gmt i think suits most nations, even if just for 1hr

4.1 if we had it on the fourms as a header , "mass gaming session on xx/xx/xxxx @ xx:xx come one come all" to help premote large gaming sessions

4.2 if these gameing sessions were a sucess we could get some organised events and make recruitment videos for the game aswell as fraps some great game play and maybe run some roleplay events based on significant fights in the BT universe

idea 5. staged video recoarding events and filming, organised lances and basically doing what the director asks we would need a few spectators with highend pc's but we could make some gread videos

idea 6, somepeople can make maps , some people can flesh out a map and others are better at detail work, corpertiave map creation would produce a better and more polished end result



if you guys have any ideas about things we could all do, or contribute towards make a suggestion if its good ill edit it into this post

if you have skills to offer please post here ( http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/forum/index.php/topic,8494.0.html ) and keep this topic purely for discussion about what would be benificial if contributed to the comunity
« Last Edit: March 29, 2010, 06:46:46 PM by CHHs Cyan »
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Re: Building this comunity , with your help
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 04:52:23 PM »
I'm personally waiting for a new game mode and hopefully a few installation improvements before really pushing this mod on my non-mech inclined pvp community.  They are really fussy pvpers that at this point in their gaming careers have to have strategic gameplay objectives to stay interested.  I might even wait for a planetary league to develope because that is the fathom of depth they enjoy.  I really have one shot to get them hooked because most of them don't care about mechs for the sake of mechs or they would already be playing.

There are so many games coming out these days that unless you have a personal vested interest in a game or the IP it had better be a plain fun shooter, broad and deep strategically and pretty much flawless mechanically to hook your general gamer.  Nothing sucks worse than getting a huge population bubble, building a community on that bubble, and then the bubble bursts leaving you with something that emotionally feels really empty even though it might not be.  Having a stable community is probably just as important as having one with critical mass (e.g. Warhammer Online).  For these reasons, I am staying my hand for now.
« Last Edit: March 29, 2010, 05:08:37 PM by Blhurr »

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Re: Building this comunity , with your help
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 05:35:32 PM »
I might even wait for a planetary league to develope because that is the fathom of depth they enjoy.

Well I would refer you to www.netbattletech.com but I fear this league is really stagnant. There are really only about 30 to 40 players active in this Planetary league and trying to just register a new forum account is next to impossible because the admins are not extended the permissions to modernize the league forums. The good part is the Planetary league "Automation" is already there and working. It would need to be re-written somewhat to adapt to MWLL. Once again, the admins for the league would have to agree to do this and get the permissins to do so from the league"Automation" owner.

I really feel the people left over at NBT are content to wait for the Jordan Weisman project ... aka Mechwarrior 3015 Re-boot ... to be released before re-setting the NBT league to handle this new game.

Your uncertainty in approaching your pvp friends may well be the better part of wisdom, for now.


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