Marketing, speed & action
MasterPTG
Join Date: 2006-11-30 Member: 58780Members
Join Date: 2006-11-30 Member: 58780Members
Flayra, make guest passes available for 2 weeks b/f the release. Coded, invite only, all forum members get emails with temp. cd keys, and 5 available 'invite' emails (like what gmail did). They would login in with their forum ID (or an ID emailed to the forum user) and could email their friends an invite. Then they in turn could email others. Etc, Etc. It's like what you were saying about marketing, but better.
Or just make it available to everyone for 2 weeks...and then no one DL's it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. Gotta make it rare and hard to get <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. lol.
You'd at least build up lots of people who sorta know whatz going on, so that when the newbs hit--they can be shown WTH to do (instead of no one knowing WTH to do).
I think an increase in the speed of the mobile part of the game (players) could be stepped up a notch. Have the rines jog (not walk), aliens run (not jog) or whatever. One of NS's main advantages is that it encapsulates non-stop action for 20-30 minutes (unlike CS that resets itself quickly after 3-4 minutes of play).
If you make a game that produces a high adrenaline octane flow (lol) for sustained periods of time with more intensive atmospheric map layouts, then I think the game would get a very large draw from the CS pop. But it needs to have a skill depth similar to an abyss, a clear-cut clean HUD, lots of game information to draw upon, intense action, and gameplay that is as fast and furious as the map itself. If you can make the infestation grow fast, make the aliens move that much faster.
Travel does not need to take 15 seconds to get to the closest resource node <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. Fast&Furious ftw.
Or just make it available to everyone for 2 weeks...and then no one DL's it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. Gotta make it rare and hard to get <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. lol.
You'd at least build up lots of people who sorta know whatz going on, so that when the newbs hit--they can be shown WTH to do (instead of no one knowing WTH to do).
I think an increase in the speed of the mobile part of the game (players) could be stepped up a notch. Have the rines jog (not walk), aliens run (not jog) or whatever. One of NS's main advantages is that it encapsulates non-stop action for 20-30 minutes (unlike CS that resets itself quickly after 3-4 minutes of play).
If you make a game that produces a high adrenaline octane flow (lol) for sustained periods of time with more intensive atmospheric map layouts, then I think the game would get a very large draw from the CS pop. But it needs to have a skill depth similar to an abyss, a clear-cut clean HUD, lots of game information to draw upon, intense action, and gameplay that is as fast and furious as the map itself. If you can make the infestation grow fast, make the aliens move that much faster.
Travel does not need to take 15 seconds to get to the closest resource node <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />. Fast&Furious ftw.