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What we need gentleman... is a marketing strategy, with a set date for a rebirth of the game. A couple of stupid internet posters, and maybe a 30 seconds youtube clip that's fun, coupled with some direct targetting strategies.
Call it the Defibrilation plan
BOOM, you'll have everybody back in here.
Think about it, if they said SEPTEMBER 1st is the next wipe, even if it was just a simple reset from EXACTLY what is, and we had all the tools in place, and targetted/emailed everyone who has an account on this site, and had all the links and information ready for people to download streamlined on one page view, you'd almost surely get 50% of the membership interested, buzzing about this place, and their friends. We're back in business.
If you REALLY want to make it interesting, pose a new threat, or create a mystery, in the advertising, that leaves people wanting more. For Example, *Towns are being wiped out! Everyone is Modoc is DEAD, the HUB is a smoldering ruin, People are going missing throughout the wastes everyday. The wastes is in search of the chosen one, who will rise to save the wasteland again.
All of this work could probably be pulled off by 3 people in an afternoon.
People want more of this Genre, something they haven't gotten yet, that's why the come here. Dare I say, the game would suddenly be that much more exciting to play too.