Just an idea that doesnt necessarily encourage new blood, but it might help to get some of the new ones to stay more than 5 mins. How about this as an alternative for new players.. Instead of setting your daily reward for energy or stamina, how about they were able to set it for Captains. Im not talking about the 1000 hired guns, if they want them - they still have to buy them, but the normal captains, that some of us were lucky enough to be able to complete using invite codes, but new players have zero chance of achieving. It might only be 1 or 2 a day, but it would give people a chance, that over time and with enough commitment, they could have the same basic 1000 Captains as everyone who got them via codes and add me threads. As I have said before, Im sure the lack of any prospect of being able to get 1K captains turn alot of people straight off the game. This way they still have to grind it out to get the captains, and it would be a task that is completed in several months (6+ minimum I would say), but at least it is a task that people can see actually is achievable. I actually think this might be one of my better ideas.... but Im braced for the obvious pitfalls Ive missed?! Have at me ya scurvy dogs!!! PS - I originally made this post in a thread about new blood for Kong which suffers badly from lack of players, but there is no reason why it should be available to all platforms across all the games.
On FB it is not a problem to get clan, never has been, being it is a social network, and Kano made the clan code thing, even though I will not clan a code, myself, also of course do not need clan, but I try to clan those that have a viable FB account who send me requests if they have a FB account that is unavailable they get ignored. But as you said, , if I read it right, there are people with full clan who have used the invite codes or the add me threads, so why don't you guys clan the new players and give them a helping hand.
The trouble is, the active players do, the underlying issue is there is at best estimates only about 300 active players on Kano and this takes into account players that come over from Armor games, that we platform share with. The problem is massive and needs a bit of blue sky thinking to try and get some of the players that do find us, to stay. It might be a sticking plaster for a broken leg, but its got to help a bit.
If there are only 300 players then how on earth do you think your idea would even help,( sorry not getting this,maybe I missed someting), if there are no people to fill the ranks. Are you talking about filling that first real 1,000 people with ghosts?? The old myspace has had the same problem especially when myspace closed down gaming on that platform, but any non social network is gonna have this problem, I would assume from what I have seen thru the years,which is why , I cannot understand why experienced gamers would make a choice to play on that of a type of network, but I wish you better luck.
Yeah - thats exactly what Im suggesting, basically ghosts. Theory being - it will help keep some of the real people that do come through. Come and open a Kongregate account and add some people - every little helps !Lol
No love at all for this then? I guess the people that make it as far as the forum, probably all have 2K captains, or heading that way, so dont see the need. Shame.
Thats kind - thanks, but Im one of the lucky ones with 2K. I add as many people as I can, but some people are doomed to never get to 2K.
Even on FB some people don't cause they don't try, or care about it, have the time or commitment for a variety of reasons, sometimes people open a game check it out and never come back, not everyone is a game addict
Little bump for this idea - I still think it was one of my better ones and some people might have missed it!
Well, it's like you say in your original post: "an idea that doesnt necessarily encourage new blood". From Kano's point of view it's better to have new blood. That's the whole idea behind getting 1000 real players in your mob/clan/guild. That's what's interesting for Kano, people asking their friends and other players to join the game. Maybe Kano could encourage this a bit more by giving some kind of bonus (special item, FP, ...) for every new player you attrackt to the game?
I'm not going to play on Kong but I added the 4 games there. Feel free to share with your friends if they need more mob/captains/chieftains/squad. http://www.kongregate.com/games/kan...e&kv_kam=user&kv_kap1=25511077&kv_language=en http://www.kongregate.com/games/kan...e&kv_kam=user&kv_kap1=25511077&kv_language=en http://www.kongregate.com/games/kan...e&kv_kam=user&kv_kap1=25511077&kv_language=en http://www.kongregate.com/games/kan...e&kv_kam=user&kv_kap1=25511077&kv_language=en
I think the idea has some merit.... But i say instead of giving the chieftains out daily, maybe be able to trade in your 7 days of dailies for a chieftain or 2 or 3....somethin like that would be better I think
