Congrads, many have tried before you, but the latest changes have accomplished something many before you have attempted and failed. The Final Death of Empires. Its Friday night, and there are 0 players playing. So now it appears even the weekends are without people wanting to play the game.
It's actually been like this before. For extended periods. The symptoms do not fit the diagnosis at this point. Also this is why I said if Sparty thinks he has a final vision that he wants to do in stages, well, it's not likely to make so much difference to do it all at once. Of course I don't have faith that his vision is more than 60% right, but...
For the sake of this mod I just hope Spartacus comes to senses, reverts to Tricksterpires as a solid base and adds a few of his ideas that got positive feedback here and there.
If there's one thing that I need when I get up in the morning, it's positive feedback. I just can't live without it.
Usually hope dies last, but common sense locked it away in a locker and threw the key away some time ago now.
last 6mo just have a higher resolution. although its probably a small decline overall. but it shows that empires is reduced to about what id say is its core player base - and its like that for quite some time now. plus maybe 5-10% random newbies or people that come back after long breaks - but those usually dont stay for long.
I would say more new players are joining in, because of all the updates happening every week/other week. I see less vets and more new players, that was what it looks like to me anyway. Paradox was right in a way in the new update thread, new players don't have expectations of what empires should play like, they just see what they get and think that's how empires is.
odd, whenever i see people play i recognize half of them. and thats me who doesnt play. but maybe its a timezone thing since most of the time i dont see anyone playing at all :\
There seemed to be quite a few new people there yesterday. A surprising amount, actually, considering.
NEEDS TO ADVERTISE MORE! CHANGES ARE VERY GOOD.. SHOULD PLAN A "TOURNAMENT PLAYOFF WITH RANDOM PRIZES GIVEN *SUNDAY*"" New players would like such an idea.
Yea i want to see all those pro plays by people who dont know how to spawn to get all that non existent empires 'swag'.
You recognize the people you have played with in the past, the core players. If you think about if, lets say you played 3 times in the last 6 months. You would recognize the core players every time in the 6 months. Lets say 20 ouf of 30 players. But you probably wont remember any new player over the new times. Thus 30 new players got introduced. It's always been like this in empires, new players never get counted so we have no idea what the influx is of new players in empires. We only know that there are more steady vet players than there are new players cause of how small the player base is. If you compare this to any other game, you join a server, no goddamn way you know who any of the players are unless you play the game an awful lot or its your favorite server and you play on that server constantly.
I think VIPER stats can be useful here. It shows the player that joined the server in the last 28 days, which I think is a decent indication of the game's activity. Last time I checked, we had 11 pages of active players, now we have 13 pages. So we are actually bumping up a little. We should really worry if it goes under 10 pages.
