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yes Jim good to see you out of the closet again π
How’s John? and Chris for that matter and your bro for that matter!
not seen our brethren from the west in a long timeGood to see you Jim, give John and chris a nudge, get TF2 and we’ll be back to our late night madness of a few years ago π
The problem as I see it is that we’re becoming invisible. We’ve had the greatest success in the past when we’ve been actively involved within a games community. Whether that involves community forums, or competitive games, both put you on the map better than our own servers ever can do by themselves. We’ve not been doing that for years, and the fact is that old friends move on, and we’ve not been out making a whole lot of new ones.
With all of us spread across so many games, it’s harder getting a server going by ourselves, the tf2 server for example usually takes two or three of us along with a couple of rats before it fills up. When we do get new people on it, it’s also important to acknowledge them and hopefully get a bit of banter going across the teams, it’s a rare occurrence but last week I had some brilliant 2v2, and 3v3 games late at night which ended with people asking how to add us to their favourites. Of course that doesn’t really help us much in building a player base if we are empty 90% of the time. So what I think we should do is to put ourselves out there more, find the communities and get involved. Advertise our site and server through sigs, and see where that takes us.
We could also reintroduce the idea of sections in xdc, where we have at least someone willing to go out and build a membership for each game. It doesnΓΖΓβΓβΓΒ’ΓΖΓΒ’ΓΒ’Γ’β¬à ‘ΓβΓΒ¬ΓΖΓΒ’ΓΒ’Γ’β¬à ¾ΓβΓΒ’t really have to be that formal, really just recognition that we are building a team/player base for that game. The reason I suggest this is that there seems to be confusion about who we can recruit, eg the RO players must surely have met a lot of people out there who fitted perfectly with our style of play and attitude, yet I don’t remember any RO recruitment threads. Do people think we can’t recruit for minority games within XDC, or was that more a case of we couldn’t be arsed and were happy enough with what we had? I might be wrong on that, but still my point here is that if we are to go and get a server for any game, especially TF2 and COD4 these days, we really should be thinking of expanding our own player base for that game at the same time, it’s in our own interest as otherwise we get the empty servers we’re seeing today. The problem is that it’s a time consuming job, and initial recruitment needs to be extra careful, but I’m sure we’d be up to the task.
Thoughts?
ps I’m getting COD for christmas so I’ll be joining in there soon as well as TF2.
Could we have as part of the console message on our ranked cod server, a recruitment message? just a thought.
I’ll get on Total COD4 forum tomorrow, I think they normally have some space for advertisimg your clan / server
Could we have as part of the console message on our ranked cod server, a recruitment message? just a thought.
and a poor one. if the servers are not getting attention, how the heck are people gonna see a recruitment message?
I’d have thought advertising the servers was more important than recruitment.. why do we need to recruit again, those who were recruited recently, disconbobulated.. whats to say the same wont happen again..
recruitment should be the last thing on minds at present…
*oh and I can edit the server messages.. where do you think the ones already on it came from? but again.. I dont see the point in recruiting.. I’d rather advertise the server somehow to get it full*
Some very good points made in this thread.
I agree that XDC seems to be struggling on the community side of things, though i think this is mainly due to the fact that we have blocked our forums to new member due to the actions of 1 small minded ( and dicked) fuckwit. I think it should be made a priorty to re-open the forums. I think this means, ultimately, we should make available funds to get the webspace it needs and stop relying on magickers. We all can acknowlegde his contribution over the years, but the risk to himself and Lis has become unacceptable.
The majority of us are still out there playing games on a regular basis, but i must admit, i’ve been lazy on the TF2 front, it’s been easier to go on a already full server than go on our own and biuld it up. I’ll make sure this changes and make more of an effort on the community side of things, but it’s a little pointless advertising our forums if when the punters get here they can’t easily see what XDC are all about.
The forums is the only bit with which I am involved at the moment. I just don’t have time to play games – literally the odd half hour with 2142, maybe a couple of times a month. There’s no point me getting TF2, COD4 etc as I know I just won’t have the time to learn to play a new game. I purchased Company of Heroes five months ago as I know it is a great game, but I’ve not even got past the tutorials, and the last time I played that was 4 and a half months ago π
This may change, it may not. Real life is kind of busy right now – I even feel guilty doing forum stuff.
I wholeheartedly support opening up the forums again – I disagreed with the original decision.
A note on the “visibility” topic I would never have heard of XDC if people like Turks etc had not kept popping up on the Multiplayers forum. There’s probably a lot to be said for hanging around other forums, with the website, server info etc as your sig. I guess the thing with MP was that almost by definition it was clanless, so it attracted a large number of people who were just general games players. Going into clan forums saying “come over to XDC” will not be as effective as people will already be attached. Maybe clans/sites that don’t have their own server? When Multiplayers lost their own server, that was when it all kind of died off and people like myself gravitated here.
I think people are losing sight of whats important in this thread……..
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I’d have thought advertising the servers was more important than recruitment.. why do we need to recruit again, those who were recruited recently, disconbobulated.. whats to say the same wont happen again..
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You swallowed a dictionary m8? π If you did… I know no one likes a pedant… but I think you must have spat out the bit with discombobulates definition… that sentence makes no sense! π
heh thanks I just learned a new word…
I agree on opening the forums, but Andy’s already said that’s on the agenda and it’s been discussed before so I don’t think we need to dwell on it. It will definately help, but we need to also go out and look at the communities imo. Some examples I can think of are the Jolt forums, and also wireplay (I think they’re still up and running, and if so it was always the more laid back of the two), which are both UK based and support communities for practically any game you can think of. There’s also the site the original owner of co.uk went off to manage, although it looked massive (which has a tendancy to attract a lot of wankers) and I can’t remember it’s name anyway.
Recruitment itself is not a priority atm, but it should be in the long term. The fact is we’re unlikely to find a game which ticks the boxes for all of us again. Having just the one branch of XDC is sustainable but we’ll continue shedding members, and with 4 servers now we need to consider actively expanding in those areas or there’s no point in having 3 of them. The other thing though, as Dave said, is that we do need to work on our servers, especially TF2 now that half of us have moved to COD on what looks like a permanent basis.
Regular events/matches for each game is another idea, and would help with all the above as well.
Bloody Hell Queeks, good to see you Mate. It has been way too long.
Just a little worried that if the forum is opened back up then that little cunt Legit will be back to screw us over just the same as last time.
Guys, I have chased Multiplay on getting the new web site sorted. As soon as that is done, Mag will open up the forums again.
I will also be more active in the new year
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