Am very very happy with you firecracker!!! ... helping by improving this mod to stay in touch with the recent needs of our players.
Thnx!!!
You asked my opinion about our server as it is now ...
Well I honestly don't exactly know how to improve popularity ...
But I can tell what I think of it now ...
After years of idolizing this server as one of the best mods I've ever seen (Still think so) ... I still feel I'm totally at a loss whilst playing it.
So after all this time i feel like a total n00b.
For instance:
It was until after most of the old players went away ... and only a few months before Turrils server went down for a long long period of time ... I discovered THE map made by Chaozrulez (Thnx for that Chaoz!!) ... before that time I only followed other experienced player-groups to places I just couldn't find on my own afterwards. And most of the time I just hadn't a clue why we went there in the first place.
Now I have the map I finally know little a bit more what to expect in some places and how to get there.
BUT ...
lacking a lot of travel tokens I still never have visited lots and lots of places ... just because the distance and almost always the resistance in some areas is just too great ...
It also still leaves me quite clueless about a lot of other things ...
for instance ... where can I find the "Bosses", how high in lvl should you be to defeat them and what kind of quests are there around and where can I start them? What kind of nice gear is there to win/find? And how do I know what/who/where is worth fighting and dying for over and over again? ... and how can I learn or read this?
Roaming the forum just ain't covers it at all.
Also ... having new means of earning travel tokens ... is just great ... only I still have not a clue how to obtain them ... yeah by doing some quests ... but which quests then? Where to find them? And which level do you have to be for these quests? ... BTW ... How many quests are there anyway?
Just some examples about cluelessness and frustrations ... new players will probably have these too
I think ... That we need to remove these frustrations and questions as first priority, to keep new players playing at all.
Other thing:
We still have a very happy few who still play quite regularly.
Maybe they can start a topic about when they are probably online and willing to group and for what quest or goal?
This can attract some extra players who still read these forums but almost never play.
Just a couple of my thoughts ...
Please do add more thoughts people!!
Otherwise I truly believe this server will officially be declared dead in months to come.
Just for the record ... am digging into this mod slowly but deeper and deeper every time I dig ... and begin to collect a lot if info I never knew before ... (for instance ... learning about all kind of programmed conversations and journal comments is learning me somewhat more about existing quests ... maybe I should post something about that somewhere?)
1 example ... I never knew there was a cold essence "partquest" ... needed to give to Beorn so he can give you a special ward which in turn you can use for another "follow-up-quest"