What can we do to help get the population back up?

[keelonzo]

Talk with the new people when you see them, get to know them a lil. Take them out on hunts. That way we get less posts like Timelords post. He been here a month and hardly anyone took time to talk to him! Most people play because they made friends here, rather than omg i got 1 mil, now I got to stay!

He said he was here for a year.

Speaking from experience - the hardest thing, when you're a young player, is acquiring gold. While knocking the rust off, I had forgot most of the old hunting grounds and some I hadn't bothered to learn before I quit in OSI days. I read the wiki and the forums for the best way to start out - bard. Ok... now I have a bard... what next? Where to go? I finally had the pleasure of meeting a nice person who showed me how to get to cyclops valley.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=45656 Just this simple act of kindness was all the glue I needed to stick around. Couple that with a lengthy convo with overamp in-game when I was 1 day old helped tremendously.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day - teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

There should be a group (not a guild) of established players "on-call" (similar to some of the housing brokers) to help newbies. The forums and IRC are very intimidating for the UN-initiated. I like the idea of having the town cryers directing new players to a place for them to start - forum threads/signs/places etc... how hard could it be to have a webform for new players to "page" helpers via email or PM to meet at a location/time this address could be what the town cryers are directing them towards.

[liinniejj]

you mean bring counselors back?

[Freight Elevator]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day - teach him to fish and he will macro->tower->quit

[Elk Eater]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day - teach him to fish and he will macro->tower->quit

Give a man a fire and you'll warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you'll warm him for the rest of his life.

[Populus]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day - teach him to fish and he will macro->tower->quit

Give a man a fire and you'll warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you'll warm him for the rest of his life.

I personally think this is the best way.

[keelonzo]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day - teach him to fish and he will macro->tower->quit

Give a man a fire and you'll warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you'll warm him for the rest of his life.

I personally think this is the best way.

I Heart UOSA! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

[Jakob]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day - teach him to fish and he will macro->tower->quit

Give a man a fire and you'll warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you'll warm him for the rest of his life.

This is what I do all the time! It really works!

[Menkaure]

Not a bad idea Abe. Since all the UOSA counselors are apparently gone, lets have in game counselers now, that can actually help the newbie. Ill volunteer for this, I know Im never really on, but any time I am on, I would love to help new folk. Usually my only play times are late night on the weekends.

[Blaise]

Not a bad idea Abe. Since all the UOSA counselors are apparently gone, lets have in game counselers now, that can actually help the newbie. Ill volunteer for this, I know Im never really on, but any time I am on, I would love to help new folk. Usually my only play times are late night on the weekends.

How about form a Counsellor's Guild. Do not accept newbies. Only take on Veterans that will hold the hands of new players until they're ready to make their way or go PK like everyone else. Not just in game but in IRC as well. Perhaps if there were a channel they could get answers in from active players instead of just shittalking and ubad/umad, they might stick around and pay that forward.



Or not.

[Abyz]

Blaise actually said something constructive here. ^

[Blaise]

Blaise actually said something constructive here. ^

I say a lot of constructive things, if you fanboys would get your hating heads out of each other's asses and stop being so butthurt that I play another shard, you might see that. But nooo, every post is 'omg Trammy go play Telamon's shard'.


I do and will continue to do so, just as I will and continue to support the goals of UOSA. It's not likely to ever be my primary cup of tea again but I'm sure I'll enjoy a cup on occasion with some old friends.

[keelonzo]

^

Blaise actually said something constructive here. ^

Couldn't be for long though.

[Abyz]

Blaise actually said something constructive here. ^

I say a lot of constructive things

Naaaah, usually it's just an annoying, pointless chime in.

[Pro]

could just realise the same thing happens every year to every game.

[Guerrilla]

Nothing.

Seems to be the absolute approach thus far.