More players.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 6:19 am

So i was looking at dowload count.

3.1 is like 11000 dowloads, and the latest version is like 2700 downloads, would it not make sense to maybe force people to make an account to access the newer downloads? to try to increase how many people play in tunngle and such.

And maybe not make it exclude people without accounts.  But you could post patch 3.1.3 is released, sign up for a free account to get it... or wait until the next patch comes out to get 3.1.3 this way, people are not exlcluded but if they want new stuff, they need to make an account oh here, which would hopefully increase activity among all of us and them, because to be honest, i think there are at max, maybe 100 people here who are active in forums, and playing in tunngle, and 2700 have already dowloaded since may 3rd, and 11000 since jan for 3.1, shouldnt we try to tap into that?

posted on May 18th, 2010, 7:15 am

Just make some advertisement on the game magazine forums...eventhough this will icrease the number of nubs.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 8:36 am

Bad, extremely bad idea.

Forcing people to do something against their will does not work.
A forced membership / account  does not generate more people which will play online.

In a best case scenario they will register but not play online, they just will be pissed.
In a worst case scenario they will just turn away and never return.

If you want to get people to play online you just can advertise. Nothing else works.


Oh by the way, an advise: real life persons do not like to be forced or coerced into something.
Doing so will just create negative emotions against you and will end up standing there alone.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 9:02 am

but some others dont mind being forced to do something because their thinking is different. you will always have these 3 groups at any point,

1. that dont take kindly to be threatened or forced into anything and like to do things for themselves.
2. those who sit on the fence and watch 1 & 3 beaten the crap out of each other.
3. those who want to be controlled or who dont realize it like sheep, as they think its the right thing to do.

encouraging people to play the game of their own free will and desire, adverts do this but the problem here is, this game is a modification, it is not a stand alone game, if FO take kick backs from any person who clicked the ad link, how long do you think it would take before Blizzard/Activision come knocking on the door. adverts need exposure but in order to use that space, a certain payment is required and i doubt the money FO has is good enough for even a small space on a mainline site.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 12:42 pm

You can't exactly pigeon hole people like that, but still, the idea is quite polarising.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 12:46 pm

Like 1% of the newly registered members would never ever bother to be active in the forums and 50% of the people would be pissed of by the fact that they have to register. Also: how about the distribution on of the new files on other sites?

I think it is fine as it is now.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 12:48 pm

indeed tparis.

posted on May 18th, 2010, 2:40 pm

Aye, most of the people who play Fleet Operations are not active in the forums, don't ever visit it, or visit it just to make PM's to the devs - forcing people to make accounts would probably destroy a lot of the player base 

posted on May 19th, 2010, 12:50 am

first off, whoever said it would be forcing people, um... no it wouldnt, the devs arnt forcing us to play, we arnt being forced to dowload the game, having the game here is not a right of ours, optec and doca and others made it, so its not a right for anybody to have it

all it is, is in return for getting a the latest version of a sweet game, they need to join the forums, the hope being that some would be more active and get involved, while your right not all would, but maybe somone once they had an account, would be more likely to use it, and we could generate a larger base of supporters and better players

and if they dont want to get the latest version of the game, then they can wait for a few months till its released

posted on May 19th, 2010, 1:02 am

So basically you want to force everybody who doesn't get an account here to wait until long after the rest of us have the patch. Yeah... no thank you.

posted on May 19th, 2010, 1:05 am

well you have an account dom, and if people who dont have accounts want to object, well then they can just make accounts

haha,

on the serious side tho, i dont see it as forcing, i see it as being helpful to fleetops

thats what many games do, sto to be one of them, people sign up for other shit so that they can get the trial first or stuff like that, like i said, nobodys forcing you to download the game in the first place, you dont have to pay money for the game, would signing up for an account, and contributing with your ideas and such to these forums be such a large inconvenience and price?

[Tyler]

posted on May 19th, 2010, 1:07 am

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All it would probsbly do is greatly increase the number of dead accounts; join, download, bye.

posted on May 19th, 2010, 1:09 am

like i said tho, it is likely and hopeful that some of those people would be active, and we would grow, wouldnt that be worth it, its not that hard of a thing to implement, and if we can possibly gain some active users why not give it a try?

posted on May 19th, 2010, 1:09 am

Pre-game 'hints' include the FO address and suggest joining the community, yet people playing don't always join. That tells me they might not be interested in the forum.

posted on May 19th, 2010, 1:10 am

That's called forcing, and it isn't helpful in the slightest. Have you paid attention to who plays online, and seen how many of them are part of the forum? Much more than half of the online gamers don't even have an account here. They might peruse the forums on occasion, but that still does not change that basic fact.  B)

I would never want to use STO as an example - nor most other games - as that is a money making ploy, pure and simple.  :pinch:

Also, look every once in a while at the people who actually are active on this site, and those who post. You'll see that hundreds of people are active, while the posting pool is in the dozens. That wouldn't change most likely. People should have the freedom to do as they wish - whether that be downloading this game and joining the forums, or downloading and not joining - and that's I'm going to say on the matter as there is no way that's going to change.  :whistling: