No News is Bad News

How about interlopers?
you should start sending mails to them to krenzo, they even have a active forum comunity

 

FOR GODS SAKE LISTEN!!!!

they are not going to publicise the mod untill they feel that it is ready for it.

jesus do people even read the friggin posts here or is everyone so fucking worried about getting a high post count they just type something , anything so long as its vaguely relevant.

 

I think they should wait for the mod to be spit polished before starting up the hype machine.

Many players that play empires came from Natural Selection... And are more used to this gameplay, and even for them its still a bit of a change.

If more CS spammers come here I swear they will do the same thing that happened to NS (Combat >.<) I think Empires equivelent of this are Escort and District, those types of maps should be kept to a minimum

 

Omfg

 

Jim, I dont recall seeing any posts about 'Not starting up the PR department until its finished' so if its not on the front page I aint gonna looking for it

 

It´s all about the post count:p

 

Jim your the one to talk about the post count... we joined on the same date... and you have 20x the posts I have...

 

He´s very active

 

Kudos to him, he should be in game not in forum

If everyone played then we wouldnt need more CS lamma's... :D

 

We should probably wait untill at least 1.06 is released what with it's apparent boost in sexiness, which everyone loves. To prove to people that the lag is gone, that there community video Idea seems to be the best way.

If we don't pimp it after 1.06 then we should leave it unpimped untill the Planes/Blimps/Flying squids/Roflcopters :D/ are implemented.

 

ROFLcopters
AFK47's
TTYLnukes
LMAOplanes
OMGbombzor tanks
AFK apcs
WTFsubmarines

Could it get any better than that? Maybe ^_^
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/feuer.php

 

Ok you win... Ill go an hide in a crator in emp_valley... make sure not to get you AFK APC stuck in one...

edit: sorry my spelling is horrible

 

Creator?
I didn't know god was living in emp_valley

Tell me where that SOB is...LET ME AT HIM!

 

3D ASCII models would be Teh Pwnage.

Hmmm, Rammstein music built into the Empires servers... Brilliant!

 

What about space Nazi marches?

 

I thought about the issue of publicity for a while, and I can't help but come back to the same old conclusion. This is now more relevant then ever before, as I am having more and more trouble finding an active server in the US, especially one with a ping of less then 100 and with more than 15 players. (I envy you European players). I still feel that this game badly needs any type of publicity. It needs this publicity because, quite frankly, it needs the players. Just playing a game in other more popular (non-CS) mods showed me that most people don't know what Empires is, and those that do haven't played it because they couldn't find an active server. This situation is a downward cycle--no one knows about it, so no one plays it, and no one plays it, so no one knows about it. We've got to break this loop! I reiterate PHASERS’ position that word of mouth will only take you so far in the e-world; one must have some sort of official recognition, as this is the only way to alert a large number of people to the mod.

To those of you who argue that drawing attention to the mod too early would jeopardize it's future, I can only ask what harm could be done that wasn't done with the buggy release of 1.00, anyway? Furthermore, to those that believe the long-term affect of early publicity will be a reduced gamer population, if we use server activity as a yardstick, I can only note that the game's population has already been dropping to precipitously low levels already. This may not be a problem with UK servers yet, but I remember when 1.01 was out--I could get into an Empires game at any time of day, and at least have a playable match. Nowadays, I can only play a game with an active US server after a certain time of night, and I'll be lucky if I can get a good server once or twice all week. I know I'm being a little paranoid, but just ask yourself: what if this trend continues? Sure, 1.06 will result in a short-term increase in players, but if things remain as they are, that gain will be temporary. Hell, by the time the actual game is finished, we'll have one server active once a week. I can imagine how the game would end up as defunct as NS. There are images of shinier, more hyped up RTS/FPS games circulating even now (check Off-Topic), and each one of these means one less gamer that could play Empires.

There are no major glitches and no major balance issues. The only thing that requires immediate attention is the somewhat linear gameplay of emp_district. As long as the same Devs remain in charge, I seriously doubt that they’d abandon the vision of the game to something straight FPS like NS-Combat. In fact, I imagine that the only thing that would force a switch into NS-Combat type of gameplay would be a shortage of players, forcing the Dev’s to try some sort of crazy stunt to appeal to a larger gamer market. (I could be wrong, I’m not too well versed on the switch to NS-combat.)

So I say, when 1.06 comes out, pimp the hell out of it. Email the half life sites you know, tell your friends, and make community videos! The more publicity, the better. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In other words, quick publicity now will prevent problems with the game later.

Sorry for the long post, I’m kind of just typing as I think of each thing. Some of the opinions may be ill-informed, and I hope you can prove that my fears are misguided.

 

I'l mention it when I can to try and attract some more players

 

Somebody should really give him a plaque or something for that.

WALL 'O TEXT

Anywho, I'm all for giving Empires a little more love. It's not as if we're still at the laggy release. The game's pretty stable at this point, and I have a great time with it. At the very least, tell your friends! >;O

 

If you are looking for a really good HL site where you could promote the mod, go to hlportal.de. They have extremely active posters (Some dude keeps posting in the middle of the night).

OKok, now some of you might say: But it's German..
Don't worry. They are all capable of speaking English and you shouldn't underestimate the German playerbase. Here are some numbers from the BF2 player stats:

Playercount:
1. USA: 146.051
2. Germany: 72.993
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Germans are teh roxxorz
^_^