Another player-based server merge alternative

[Tscheuss]

Target audience:

1. You play on a low-population server.
2. You want to play with a higher population
3. You do not want to give up your investment in your current server to roll a new character on a high-population server.
4. Willing to admit that Turbine will not be any help.

Plan:

1. Gather cool DDO images.

2. Use the images to create promotional flyers.
2a. Highlight best features of the game.
2b. Direct new prospects to select your server.

3. Distribute flyers via any/all social media, or even *gasp* by hand.

4. Profit.

There is more than one way to support the game you love. :D

Another good idea:

Here's my modest proposal.

Get a couple of guildies together for a poaching expedition.

Log in to whichever server is Default for newbies.

Make characters and start posting LFMs

Be friendly, nice and competent, not "stand in that corner and observe" during quests.

Mention that you have an open guild invite on your favored server and suggest they try it out.



<constructive criticism of other OP>

Pick a target server one that is relatively consistently high population and ask people to join you on it, set up a guild with a clever title and keep it and your movement highly visible by as many means as possible: Twitch feeds of raid night, Youtube channels run by officers, forum posts, and Signatures detailing the concept of the guild, all might help.

You could also set up satellite "sister guilds" on all the other servers recruiting in Korthos... To let new players know they are on the lower populated servers, and that if they value lots of people to play the game with ideally helpful people who can deal with new players; they should roll another toon and get into the main guild on the chosen "big" server.

[Tscheuss]

Hmm. There were a few objections to my first plan, but no comments on this one. This plan lets you stay where you are, keep your investment, and increase your server's population without relying on Turbine to do more than simply keep the lights on.

[Azarddoze]

Hello, I am here to give you the attention that you seem to need/seek!

But your idea doesn't deserve any :).

[Tscheuss]

Hello, I am here to give you the attention that you seem to need/seek!

But your idea doesn't deserve any :).

Okay. What is it that you don't like about this idea?

[Rykka]

Target audience:

1. You play on a low-population server.
2. You want to play with a higher population
3. You do not want to give up your investment in your current server to roll a new character on a high-population server.
4. Willing to admit that Turbine will not be any help.

Plan:

1. Gather cool DDO images.

2. Use the images to create promotional flyers.
2a. Highlight best features of the game.
2b. Direct new prospects to select your server.

3. Distribute flyers via any/all social media, or even *gasp* by hand.

4. Profit.

There is more than one way to support the game you love. :D

Here's my modest proposal.

Get a couple of guildies together for a poaching expedition.

Log in to whichever server is Default for newbies.

Make characters and start posting LFMs

Be friendly, nice and competent, not "stand in that corner and observe" during quests.

Mention that you have an open guild invite on your favored server and suggest they try it out.

[Tscheuss]

Here's my modest proposal.

Get a couple of guildies together for a poaching expedition.

Log in to whichever server is Default for newbies.

Make characters and start posting LFMs

Be friendly, nice and competent, not "stand in that corner and observe" during quests.

Mention that you have an open guild invite on your favored server and suggest they try it out.

Finally! Someone who gets it. :)

Excellent example of players actively trying to increase their server's population. I am putting a copy of your suggestion in the OP. :)

[Singular]

Few replies b/c we're all lazy and loot farming.

Making youtube videos entitled "best free game ever!!!" and so on might get people into the game. Or, if possible, some crazy idea that makes a DDO youtube webisode go viral. All we have to do is hire the actors from the Guild and get a camera crew together. No problem!

[Tscheuss]

Few replies b/c we're all lazy and loot farming.

Making youtube videos entitled "best free game ever!!!" and so on might get people into the game. Or, if possible, some crazy idea that makes a DDO youtube webisode go viral. All we have to do is hire the actors from the Guild and get a camera crew together. No problem!

*/roll irony check <unsure>

Youtube videos would be great, if done well.

DDO is, imo, the best f2p/p2p game on the web. I finally got around to looking at some others, and their f2p options are far more restrictive than DDO's. There was one that seemed to have a liberal f2p, but it was in a very different genre. If we don't think Turbine is advertising their product enough, why not do our own? There are people who already spend $100's each year on this game. Why not spring for printed flyers and postal distribution? Or tuck them under windscreen wipers in parking lots? Worried about the cost? Use social media to spread the word.

[Tscheuss]

Hello, I am here to give you the attention that you seem to need/seek!

But your idea doesn't deserve any :).

Still waiting to read your specific objections to this suggestion. Could it be that you cannot think of any? :)

[Azarddoze]

Still waiting to read your specific objections to this suggestion. Could it be that you cannot think of any? :)

/hug

Hope this can appease you for at least 24 hours this time...

[Tscheuss]

For the U.S. based players that have money to spend on the game, here is a tool that can help you distribute your DDO <server> flyers. You know that this is the best f2p/p2p mmo, so why not tell the world (or at least your ZIP code). :D

https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm

[Missing_Minds]

Okay. What is it that you don't like about this idea?

You lost people when you stated they had to actually do something.

[Tscheuss]

You lost people when you stated they had to actually do something.

Perhaps, but maybe some of them are actually thinking on this idea for a while before making a decision. *crosses fingers

[Ausdoerrt]

Do you think DDO is really in such a bad shape as to offer volunteer services? Might as well do a donation drive at this point, then.

Except, I think you're exaggerating quite a bit.

[Tscheuss]

Do you think DDO is really in such a bad shape as to offer volunteer services? Might as well do a donation drive at this point, then.

Except, I think you're exaggerating quite a bit.

Mmkay. What is it that you think I am exaggerating? :confused:

I haven't made any claims about the "shape" of DDO.

[Azarddoze]

Mmkay. What is it that you think I am exaggerating? :confused:

It's akin to these people who hold a lie for so long that it ends up being part of who they are. They have to fake it on a daily basis.

That's pretty much what those kind of threads remember me. Just why in hell could you find this a good and creative enought idea that you would want to defend it... at all? Even if you came up with it.

There kind of has to be something behind it. Hmmm I wonder what it could be... Any idea? Perhaps your great sense of trust in a united collectivity and love for charity work?

I gotta admit it makes me laugh everytime though so kudo.


That was your extra dose for today!

[Tscheuss]

It's akin to these people who hold a lie for so long that it ends up being part of who they are. They have to fake it on a daily basis.

That's pretty much what those kind of threads remember me. Just why in hell could you find this a good and creative enought idea that you would want to defend it... at all? Even if you came up with it.

There kind of has to be something behind it. Hmmm I wonder what it could be... Any idea? Perhaps your great sense of trust in a united collectivity and love for charity work?

I gotta admit it makes me laugh everytime though so kudo.


That was your extra dose for today!

You don't find promoting the game we love to play a good idea?

Or don't you believe that players should take initiative in solving problems that are within their reach?

To be honest, I am not entirely sure just what you are trying to say.

[Tscheuss]

Few replies b/c we're all lazy and loot farming.

Making youtube videos entitled "best free game ever!!!" and so on might get people into the game. Or, if possible, some crazy idea that makes a DDO youtube webisode go viral. All we have to do is hire the actors from the Guild and get a camera crew together. No problem!

I thought over the first sentence, I think the following more likely:

1. This is the weekend, and most of my target audience is actually playing the game or spending time with family rather than crawling the forum.

2. There is nothing popcorn worthy with this idea.

[MrTastyHead]

3. People just aren't interested in your "become a volunteer marketing department" idea.

[Tscheuss]

3. People just aren't interested in your "become a volunteer marketing department" idea.

Possibly, but then neither are they interested in shooting it down. :D

Is it really volunteering when it is done to get something you want?

[Tscheuss]

I have added another good idea to the OP that kinda fits both threads I have opened regarding merge alternatives.

[Ungood]

Another good idea:

Just let them wallow in their self inflicted misery, that seems to be what they want, There is no greater effort of futility then trying to help people that don't want to be helped.

[Cathimon]

Just let them wallow in their self inflicted misery, that seems to be what they want, There is no greater effort of futility then trying to help people that don't want to be helped.

You might be right, but I personally won't stop trying to help even though it appears quite obvious that the DDO staff just don't want to make this game great again as it was back in 2009. I'll grant you that the current state of the game we owe it to them most entirely through bad decisions, but I can't fathom that they wished for what they got and/or that they would intentionally let it die. Maybe it's misery, maybe it's a lenghty period of agony for DDO, but hopefully it'll get back on track sooner or later. I hope so, I like this game, but I'm not the one that's piloting this sinking ship...

[Uska]

Still waiting to read your specific objections to this suggestion. Could it be that you cannot think of any? :)

Well I can't think of any