14 Mar 14, 12:30PM
Hey guys. The situation is clear. Even if I smell a lot of complains from the old pro players, I think this release is a good one and there is no reason to ratify the death of AC, as I saw in some posts.
Tho the picture is quite depressing: very few players online, old clans are shirking, no new clans on the horizon. True.
But as someone who has been here for a long time I say that a turnover is simply physiological. Old players think that the good ol' times are gone and mates disappeared. Well... it happens: it is normal. If you are not able to water yourself at the fountain of eternal youth (as I did!) just move on. But there is a world full of people that can start it all again and a new era can shine. We just need a few things to make it happen.
First: every community needs an agorà , every town needs a central square. In a game that place is the ladder (and ladder servers). I always wondered why this hasn't never been clear to the dev team. People like to join pubs and see their results: they like to see their ranking and check if they improve. This generates fun (and addiction).
For a too long time we have been missing it. Do you remember Hi-Skill times? And before Tyd Ladder (apollo one's)?
Well I know Tyd Ladder is still alive, but (sorry Tyd guys, I love you!) for some reasons it never really worked as an efficient meeting point.
The BoB Ladder did and reached the leading position. Then with the new release it was offline for a long time: too bad. It would have been correct to release the new version in synch with a new ladder.
But we can still fix this. BoB ladder is working again. We just need more servers and ADMINS (hey BoB guys, how could you forget to move old admins to new servers?). Active admins are a very important part of the job: do not forget this..
I think that the dev team should sponsor the Bob ladder and make it in a way "official". Then this must be publicized (many ways are possible: for instance giving a fixed (sticky) first position to ladder servers in the masterserver list of servers, stressing it on the home page of AC website, if possible giving it emphasis at the opening of the game etc etc). I remember that when I was a noob (or maybe just MORE noob then now) it took me months to figure that there were ladders... The existence of a ladder is not something that one has to find out: it has to be clearly advertised! What if in a town there were no signs pointing to the center of the city?
Do this and and noobs will start to join again, they will get better and better, they'll form clan, and new life will spread in the desert.
It is so simple: just add water...
Tho the picture is quite depressing: very few players online, old clans are shirking, no new clans on the horizon. True.
But as someone who has been here for a long time I say that a turnover is simply physiological. Old players think that the good ol' times are gone and mates disappeared. Well... it happens: it is normal. If you are not able to water yourself at the fountain of eternal youth (as I did!) just move on. But there is a world full of people that can start it all again and a new era can shine. We just need a few things to make it happen.
First: every community needs an agorà , every town needs a central square. In a game that place is the ladder (and ladder servers). I always wondered why this hasn't never been clear to the dev team. People like to join pubs and see their results: they like to see their ranking and check if they improve. This generates fun (and addiction).
For a too long time we have been missing it. Do you remember Hi-Skill times? And before Tyd Ladder (apollo one's)?
Well I know Tyd Ladder is still alive, but (sorry Tyd guys, I love you!) for some reasons it never really worked as an efficient meeting point.
The BoB Ladder did and reached the leading position. Then with the new release it was offline for a long time: too bad. It would have been correct to release the new version in synch with a new ladder.
But we can still fix this. BoB ladder is working again. We just need more servers and ADMINS (hey BoB guys, how could you forget to move old admins to new servers?). Active admins are a very important part of the job: do not forget this..
I think that the dev team should sponsor the Bob ladder and make it in a way "official". Then this must be publicized (many ways are possible: for instance giving a fixed (sticky) first position to ladder servers in the masterserver list of servers, stressing it on the home page of AC website, if possible giving it emphasis at the opening of the game etc etc). I remember that when I was a noob (or maybe just MORE noob then now) it took me months to figure that there were ladders... The existence of a ladder is not something that one has to find out: it has to be clearly advertised! What if in a town there were no signs pointing to the center of the city?
Do this and and noobs will start to join again, they will get better and better, they'll form clan, and new life will spread in the desert.
It is so simple: just add water...