Vertigo3
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My Ideas.
Drop the monthly fee. Allow users to have the choice to play for free, or make donations to receive incentives like /mudbot, add lives, sys map, possibly sys gotos.
This bbs is competing with other bbses, like all others are doing. Unfortunately, there are ALOT of free bbses, and lets face it.. people choose free over pay. I'm positive you will be receiving alot of donations, which should not decrease your income from mud.
To improve our bbs, we need to increase the numbers. The people that are playing are the same people that have been playing 6 months ago. We occasionally get new people, but they don't stay around.. so how do we attract new users? Allow them to play for free, but make it tempting for them to donate.
A larger player base is what makes mud fun. There will be new clans, new politics, new battles, and new consequences.
I've seen ALOT of players from Ghetto BBS come here and try it out for a couple of weeks.. remaining at low levels at the end of two weeks, and realizing they have to pay to continue, sends them away.
I really really like holodeck, and I really hope it stays around. I've been trying hard to get all my friends from other muds to play here, but they shy away when they see $.. and i don't blame them. Why pay when you're already playing mud for free? I know that if this BBS were free, I would get atleast 5 people from Quicksilver to join up.
This idea is a good way to attract new people, and also make money to support you and the bbs.
Please consider this option, or give it a 3 to 6 month tial
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4/3/2008, 5:48 pm
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Priest Highlander
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 Re: My Ideas.
After reading this post, I tend to agree with Vertigo. I am currently not as active as I used to be so I don't know the current 'mud atmosphere'
Yes, FREE boards are prevalent and we'd get a lot more players if we went free, but I thought the 'quality' players would only pay... I could see more abuses for dupes so I'd probably suggest if we go free, then we'd need like a 1 dupe max rule otherwise the realm would be like 20 actual humans with 80-90 mud chars online.
I would propose an increase to my fee schedule for sys commands then, probably a straight $5/mo per command.
More to come
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4/3/2008, 6:15 pm
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