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Why there are not enough players?

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Bantz:
There is a huge czech Fallout community around madbrahmin.cz and about 80 players tried Fonline during first era and then left.

They left because they didnt like the lags, the bugs and so on. And now when you talk to them, they ask if we still play that buggy laggy game, that crashed every few hours. They dont know that the game is stable now, lagg-free and fill with more content then in the start.

So I agree with Sarakin fully, no need to advertise that much, not now. After the wipe people will show up and give it a go and then you might advertise it when it will be new and exciting even for the old folks.

Plus, if you really want more players to play, write suggestion, create some maps, graphics or dialogs, report bugs and dont act like imature idiot ingame.

And about server being dead, look around how many guys still play the game or wait for wipe and care about it. Thats hardly dead. And all those glorified new servers, there is only one decent one running and many abandoned projects.

Johnnybravo:
The game is not dead, long wait for update might have hurt a little, but the way nobody absolutely moved finger to replace grind with fun content might have made many not so hardcore players quit. Fallout fans quit the game as well (not talking about those Bethseda published Fallout namesakes) due to various issues that has been already discussed around - let it be tedious beginning, lack of various content or the already mentioned grind. But to be honest this is not something that much wrong with beta, as long as people understand it's beta (and thus possibly checking it out later when it is finished).


--- Quote ---Good "product" will advertise itself.
--- End quote ---
It does not work just like that (for example Total Annihilation was often considered the ultimate RTS game of 90s and yet Starcraft sold better). But then again, moral, legal and economic issues prevent advertisement of 2238.

By the far easiest way to increase population over time is PR (like posting news on new content, even if it is trivial, like those sand robes, or replying to community feedback - it takes some guts to digest it all and still be polite :d) and it's really questionable whether they really care about population or whether they should, because as far as we are all concerned this is still not complete game and it is in test phase.

JovankaB:

--- Quote from: Bantz on October 14, 2011, 04:17:14 PM ---create some maps, graphics or dialogs
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But first ask devs if they need it/want it. Or you will most likely do a lot of work for nothing.

ElSlayer:
I've stopped playing FOnline about year ago because of awful balance in weapons.
The only thing is really good was BG (LSW, Rocket Launcher) and mutants party.
And I hate'em both. Just plain dislike.

Top tier armors have high energy resistance, SG are just plain shitty peashooters (e.g. FN FAL - the TOP CRAFT SG RIFLE - that have extremely rare ammo and did lower DPS than BG).

Aimed fire is whole crap. In real time fight you have to click on the enemy, then choose eyes (or head, or whatever), while that guy with rocket launcher... OH MY GOD A ROCKET! BANG! Sliding away... standing up... and... he hides away behind the obstacle, reloading and... HERE AGAIN! LOOK! SAME THING! BANG!

Well... you've understood.

In TB mode... well yeah sometimes (about 8-12% of time) I have couple of nice crits with my plasma rifle. Most of time I don't.
So when I standing in wasteland against guy with LSW - it is just plain DPS competition. He needs 3-4 bursts to kill me and making 2 per turn. Well I'm shooting him too. For... 40 damage per shot.

Also funny thing that enemy (especially in Real-Time) can just turn away his eyes from you, so you have shoot head - and the difference between shooting eyes and head is damn huge.

I don't see reason for making 3D graphics while there are such flaws in the game balance. When I heard of developers plans about implementing new graphics - I've left. I love tasty pixelized graphics of old games. I liked graphics of Fallout. But 3D models in the game are looking... just awful (argh those rats and desert stalkers... yuck!).

Now (after about a year) I've came to this forum to see what's new. And what I see? NOTHING!
No balance updates, no new features. Only grapichs coming soon. It doesn't makes gameplay better.
So I won't play it.

That is *MY* reasons "why there are not enough players".

Pedosmile:
Because the devs don't give two shits about the game or the community. If it were so, there would've already been a wipe and less Nazi GMs. Simple as that.

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