Forum: empire-en
Board: [590] Ideas, Suggestions & Feedback
Topic: [379614] Keeping New Players
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Venom (AU1) [AU1]
:: Jan. 19, 2021, 11:33 a.m.
Hey everyone,
So today I am throwing up an idea that could well repopulate the game to a certain degree. I believe this can be mostly achieved by reducing the hassle with growing and the tutorial.
I will start from... The start. You start making your castle and with that you're guided but you reach the first problem at level 2. The tasks involved in reaching level 3 is simple. Make a level 1 storage. However the task is all the way at the bottom, the last looked at task.
Now moving on each level after follows this problem until level 5, you will require using the tasks out of sight to continue growing.
Now at level 5, you need to do lots of tasks to reach level 6 actually, I even slightly struggled and I know what I am doing (I think).
Anyways, so once you've completed the tutorial you're on your own with a few side tips here and there. Now what I am proposing is to lower the build times for these low level buildings and players. With even a higher skip time, like 30 minutes. So they can build up a castle faster.
Now once reaching level 70 these perks can start being removed, they have reached a level where they are now going to be a regular player.
Currently there is a 6 month grind to reach this level, longer for more casuals and shorter for those willing to put in the hours and money, reducing that down to say a month, 2 months for the more casual players could do wonders for the growth and competition of the server.
I believe moving these players along faster can keep a larger player base, while not affecting the current one.
So summary: Optimising the tutorial to make it more clear and avoid any bottlenecking with a younger audience (mind you many players grew up on this, myself included). And allowing players to progress faster to reach a level that contributes to the majority of the player base.
I hope I made this somewhat clear, I am usually bad at explaining but I believe these are great ideas to keep the player base growing.
So today I am throwing up an idea that could well repopulate the game to a certain degree. I believe this can be mostly achieved by reducing the hassle with growing and the tutorial.
I will start from... The start. You start making your castle and with that you're guided but you reach the first problem at level 2. The tasks involved in reaching level 3 is simple. Make a level 1 storage. However the task is all the way at the bottom, the last looked at task.
Now moving on each level after follows this problem until level 5, you will require using the tasks out of sight to continue growing.
Now at level 5, you need to do lots of tasks to reach level 6 actually, I even slightly struggled and I know what I am doing (I think).
Anyways, so once you've completed the tutorial you're on your own with a few side tips here and there. Now what I am proposing is to lower the build times for these low level buildings and players. With even a higher skip time, like 30 minutes. So they can build up a castle faster.
Now once reaching level 70 these perks can start being removed, they have reached a level where they are now going to be a regular player.
Currently there is a 6 month grind to reach this level, longer for more casuals and shorter for those willing to put in the hours and money, reducing that down to say a month, 2 months for the more casual players could do wonders for the growth and competition of the server.
I believe moving these players along faster can keep a larger player base, while not affecting the current one.
So summary: Optimising the tutorial to make it more clear and avoid any bottlenecking with a younger audience (mind you many players grew up on this, myself included). And allowing players to progress faster to reach a level that contributes to the majority of the player base.
I hope I made this somewhat clear, I am usually bad at explaining but I believe these are great ideas to keep the player base growing.
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YourBloodyBase (US1) [US1]
:: Jan. 20, 2021, 1:31 p.m.
I like this Idea. But, the grind for this character I created was actually a month give or take. I didn't buy exp either. Just got the share of exp from grinding all events. Lots of unfinished quests from lower levels.
http://prntscr.com/xahufj
But, then again... Not, a lot of people go that hard. I remember the original grinding and getting to level 50 was a bastard. I think they upgraded that to original might have been 35. So, much history so little time, and no one around to confer with.
I don't think level 70 is the issue. I think people seeing how much effort really goes into it when the full concept of the game gets visualized. Lays a mind to waste. Broke me a couple of time in the beginning. But, I kept coming back.
http://prntscr.com/xahufj
But, then again... Not, a lot of people go that hard. I remember the original grinding and getting to level 50 was a bastard. I think they upgraded that to original might have been 35. So, much history so little time, and no one around to confer with.
I don't think level 70 is the issue. I think people seeing how much effort really goes into it when the full concept of the game gets visualized. Lays a mind to waste. Broke me a couple of time in the beginning. But, I kept coming back.
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Wasso (INT3) [INT3]
:: Jan. 20, 2021, 3:31 p.m.
You missed out on Beatrice exploding.............YourBloodyBase (US1) said:
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YourBloodyBase (US1) [US1]
:: Jan. 20, 2021, 11:28 p.m.
The farthest I've ever gotten was the one with the wicked mother who wants you to build a crap ton of housing to prove you're worthy. Don't know what happens after that. I think they removed the same sex loving spearman. I am not sure about that but I don't think I got him when I built this character. So as far as some lore I am obviously missing a bunch of things I don't know of and are no longer here. Like Leviathan remember it being a huge Alliance never learned anything about it. Left for a while and it was gone. H.IV.E was Mark Walden's original shell. When he posted I made an example of them. Because HIVE was holding my outpost after I took some time away while my father had Throat Cancer. I thought the Iron that someone in my old Alliance that became the top Alliance because Mark and I recruited people from the web board to Win the Very First Nomad Invasion. Before that, it was just a fully completed shell just sitting around. And, the current leader had no respect for me not knowing who I was. I quit 3rd day in the event basically returned and said. "I love what we did here I just can't play a game that's going to not let me sleep for 3 straight days." And, we won. Because I checked in later. But, held leadership after that until the game dropped me. The only time I've ever been in a first place Alliance andWasso (INT3) said:You missed out on Beatrice exploding.............YourBloodyBase (US1) said:
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CheekyBuilder (GB1) [GB1]
:: Jan. 21, 2021, 9:44 a.m.
one way they could repopulate the game is by simply advertising it again lol, I havent seen a GGE advert in ages.. set up a few ad campaigns and people would slowly join the game..
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Wasso (INT3) [INT3]
:: Jan. 21, 2021, 6:53 p.m.
IKR? I have seen other "castle building Empire" type games adds on TV...........CheekyBuilder (GB1) said:one way they could repopulate the game is by simply advertising it again lol, I havent seen a GGE advert in ages.. set up a few ad campaigns and people would slowly join the game..