Population Solution?

[Nixon]

Hmm..

As the servers are all very low populated nowadays but there is several of
them, one possibility to liven up the game would be simply removing other
servers and going for only one or two. That way the server population would
probably be 400-500ish on peak hours rather than this ghost world.

Pro's of this would be simply making the game alot more fun to play, more
variety on op wars and general more colourful playerbase. You wouldn't have
to search for tradeskillers and you would meet other players everywhere. i'd
like that, atleast. This could even bring back old players and keep the new
ones in game longer than 2 weeks.

Con's would probably be the languages.. Loads of german talk and so on, but
which one would you choose? current ghostworld or seeing foreign chatting
every now and then?

What do you think? Absurd idea? Someone else must have thought about this..

edit: just realized german servers are probably germanized serverside.. thats a problem :)

[Tratos]

All of the scripts and blurb like that are done client side it seems so it should work in theory. There is as always a couple of problems to this...

Losing characters.
People have multiple characters on multiple servers either from playing both or being capped and moving to another, alot of people wouldn't take too kindly on losing a server or two full of capped chars not for the items and money but for the time they'd used to level them.

Language Barrier
Like you said this may cause a big problem and probably would but alot of games have wide varieties of languages, WoW caters for English, French and German officialy but you see many many European languages on their servers and the server i played alot was unofficialy dubbed the Russian server as for some reason all the Russian players gathered there, lol

Perhaps having a few OOC channels General, English and German would allow for easier chit chat between players.

Events would be a bit trickier but perhaps two 'Event Channels' could be created allowing for english or german event coverage deppending on preference but ofcourse this would need more GM Man power.

Of course there would be some pluses too...

Potentialy better support
Due to there being 2 servers instead of 4 the SGM presence would be doubled on the remaining server allowing for SGMs who speak both english and german to switch between english and german support tickets if there is significantly less of a certian language on duty.

Better economicly for ReaKKtor
Less servers. Less cost.

OR

Potentially better server stability
More hardware to handle one world would lead to better stability and support more load wouldnt it?

In an ideal world it would be a cool thing to see but nothing works out perfectly and to the theory its based upon i think the majority would like to see the situation become...
1 International 4 slot server
1 international 1 slot server

Then once populations rise and income is boosted along side it, more severs could be added due to demand as at a push the peak populations of all 4 servers as of late could be supported by the far off peak of 1000 people, infact in theory that server should run perfectly as i think it was said when the hardware was upgraded for the Neocron 2 servers that they could actually support 2000 users at once.

[Skusty]

Free porn for everyone if you signup now!

Wonder if that does attract players. :wtf:

[Richard Slade]

Make storebought weapons useable..
That would stop the newbies from running away from NC like red-headed stepchildren..

[Skusty]

Yepp! Thats a good idea accually richard, if you buy a storebougth gun you can't aim it as a noob and you do crap damage.

[l8m0n]

nice idea, i know enough german to keep me going if we mix up the servers but the char problem is a big one and cant see a way around it tbh :(

[xyl_az]

actually its very simply, KK just needs to start doing something... anything... because it seems that they went back to their usual schedule, which is... uhm... not enough...

I just fear that their famous marketing strategy called "promise" wont be that much effective as in the past.

[Nixon]

I'm quite sure such drastic changes will not happen, they never do.

However the current situation would require such changes whether 'they' like it or not, supposing that this game is still a priority.

It's interesting to ponder these things tho, in the end it's all we can do anyway :)

[-FN-]

Hey... did anyone ever win that DELL advertised on neocron.com? Just crossed my mind when I started thinking about population increasing gimmicks...

[Tratos]

I asked a couple weeks ago - didnt get an answer.

[nobby]

sell neptune to another company

try Television advertising with over the top looks...





There's ya population boom...I hope...

[Karandras]

Make the server automatically translate other languages into yours :D

[Tratos]

Make the server automatically translate other languages into yours :D
Neofish....or....or....bablecron!