(08-09-2018, 04:32 AM)Terran Wrote:  Slightly easier access, maybe in-game could help, and there should be different deals depending on the month, to make people interested. Maybe different types of VIP with varying effects? i.e someone who wants more drops/less cooldown for events, or someone more interested in TTT EXP/crate luck or something.

Just a thought, dunno. Like, the Blackdeath thing was pretty cool, more incentives to keep people interested would be good. Just my opinion. I like the idea of VIP, but I also don't do events so there's a big part of it useless to me. Could even go a video-game-esque route where your VIP can be "tailored", i.e more of one thing, less of another? Stuff like that. Donation incentives to keep people ponying up.

Any better ideas related to this or reasoning on why it should all stay how it is?


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Quote:Any better ideas related to this or reasoning on why it should all stay how it is?

(08-09-2018, 04:47 AM)Brassx Wrote:  Yeah I mean, I'd do more and make the donation page look better. But I'm really bad at front-end web development. I can do the back-end just fine, but making it all look pretty is rough for me. I enjoy doing it though, but finding the time to spend on it is what's hard right now.

Now that tobi is gone, especially hard. I have so many things to work on, it's a lot of work for one person. I have bug reports to fix, current updates to get out, updates AFTER this update to work on, halloween is coming up, gotta start planning out its event, gotta finish up previous updates I already got out, but only partially/rebalance what's needed... New classes, a new crate is overdue, Forerunner tiers, more Extinct items, more zodiacs, more traits in general, Realms is going to be in trouble now that I can't have tobias take over TTT while I go HAM on it to get it to a fully playable state.

It's rough my dude.

(08-09-2018, 04:50 AM)Terran Wrote:  

(08-09-2018, 04:47 AM)Brassx Wrote:  Yeah I mean, I'd do more and make the donation page look better. But I'm really bad at front-end web development. I can do the back-end just fine, but making it all look pretty is rough for me. I enjoy doing it though, but finding the time to spend on it is what's hard right now.

Now that tobi is gone, especially hard. I have so many things to work on, it's a lot of work for one person. I have bug reports to fix, current updates to get out, updates AFTER this update to work on, halloween is coming up, gotta start planning out its event, gotta finish up previous updates I already got out, but only partially/rebalance what's needed... New classes, a new crate is overdue, Forerunner tiers, more Extinct items, more zodiacs, more traits in general, Realms is going to be in trouble now that I can't have tobias take over TTT while I go HAM on it to get it to a fully playable state.

It's rough my dude.

You know, now that you put it like that I feel kinda bad...Crumbs, yeah, I guess there's not an ∞ one man can do. What if you hold some sort of recruitment drive promotion? Not for anything super vital, like how Tobias was helping out with, but stuff like HTML coding or anything else that's a bit of a nag. It just sucks to see FRG not get the attention it deserves, considering it has the most content, yet isn't pushy or flashy. Everyone currently playing will love the new content as it comes out, but it also might not interest the new folks. Speaking of that, is there still a good reason why the Lobby server has a level 5 limit? Is it possible just to remove that, because I feel like quests/dailies/etc are really good hooks.

We do get new players, but there's not a huge amount of lasting appeal, so I feel like more early-game content would be good possibly. Not like, low tiers, just more things to do. I'm sorry I can't describe this better . Also, I don't think anyone is expecting any crazy events for halloween and stuff, or at least they shouldn't. We have Grim's and Survive and Bloodwynd and lots of cool stuff, I feel like the massive amount of work they take could be focused elsewhere...Though I don't want to, like, put words in your mouth or anything.


ALSO, so what you're saying is you need professional ideas-guys to give you more work to do? That we can do. Turtle buffs is a start!

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(08-09-2018, 04:50 AM)Terran Wrote:  

(08-09-2018, 04:47 AM)Brassx Wrote:  Yeah I mean, I'd do more and make the donation page look better. But I'm really bad at front-end web development. I can do the back-end just fine, but making it all look pretty is rough for me. I enjoy doing it though, but finding the time to spend on it is what's hard right now.

Now that tobi is gone, especially hard. I have so many things to work on, it's a lot of work for one person. I have bug reports to fix, current updates to get out, updates AFTER this update to work on, halloween is coming up, gotta start planning out its event, gotta finish up previous updates I already got out, but only partially/rebalance what's needed... New classes, a new crate is overdue, Forerunner tiers, more Extinct items, more zodiacs, more traits in general, Realms is going to be in trouble now that I can't have tobias take over TTT while I go HAM on it to get it to a fully playable state.

It's rough my dude.

You know, now that you put it like that I feel kinda bad...Crumbs, yeah, I guess there's not an ∞ one man can do. What if you hold some sort of recruitment drive promotion? Not for anything super vital, like how Tobias was helping out with, but stuff like HTML coding or anything else that's a bit of a nag. It just sucks to see FRG not get the attention it deserves, considering it has the most content, yet isn't pushy or flashy. Everyone currently playing will love the new content as it comes out, but it also might not interest the new folks. Speaking of that, is there still a good reason why the Lobby server has a level 5 limit? Is it possible just to remove that, because I feel like quests/dailies/etc are really good hooks.

We do get new players, but there's not a huge amount of lasting appeal, so I feel like more early-game content would be good possibly. Not like, low tiers, just more things to do. I'm sorry I can't describe this better . Also, I don't think anyone is expecting any crazy events for halloween and stuff, or at least they shouldn't. We have Grim's and Survive and Bloodwynd and lots of cool stuff, I feel like the massive amount of work they take could be focused elsewhere...Though I don't want to, like, put words in your mouth or anything.


ALSO, so what you're saying is you need professional ideas-guys to give you more work to do? That we can do. Turtle buffs is a start!

(08-09-2018, 05:08 AM)Brassx Wrote:  The lobby is level 5 as a filter to keep trolls off of the lobby really. But lowering it a bit probably isn't the worst thing. Maybe level 2? It is a big selling point for us, and what hooks a lot of our players now is our event/bosses. No other GMOD TTT (hybrid) server I've seen has a 'dungeon run' system/AI boss fights for loot like a RPG.

It's just hard to out-do servers that focus on appealing to a more casual player base, and care less about balance and more about making players feel powerful/skilled.

(08-09-2018, 04:47 AM)Brassx Wrote:  CC2