Ideas for server population

[Shiverblade]

I was connecting to void and saw that discovery had 200 people online o.0 Proycon 13 and hamburg something like 60 lol

We all know that this mod is what?..The best mod of the freelancer history?

So, anyone ideas to make the void more popular?

CheersZ

[F-200-Efreet]

Tv commercials?

[anoyingnomad]

Are you gonna pay for those?

[zyraxes]

Focus on roleplay.Discovery is a roleplay based server with certain rules: the result is 200 players every night,100 players in the morning...
Hamburg City: a simply mod,with some roleplay,destroyable clan bases(thats an excelent idea),console auto roleplay anouncements,like "Syndicate base is under attack...etc),The result is about 70-80 players every evening.Basically,people join servers where they can have some roleplay and servers that have a strong FLAC(like both HCC and Discovery). Oh,and of course people are joining servers where players are fighting ingame...not only on forums...


Cheers

[Shiverblade]

[quote="zyraxes";p="222320"]Focus on roleplay.Discovery is a roleplay based server with certain rules: the result is 200 players every night,100 players in the morning...
Hamburg City: a simply mod,with some roleplay,destroyable clan bases(thats an excelent idea),console auto roleplay anouncements,like "Syndicate base is under attack...etc),The result is about 70-80 players every evening.Basically,people join servers where they can have some roleplay and servers that have a strong FLAC(like both HCC and Discovery). Oh,and of course people are joining servers where players are fighting ingame...not only on forums...


Cheers[/quote]

I think you might have a point there, but void has never been a RP server. The only RP whats here is pirating whats being killed by the CMs, since u can just cruise around a building start cruise and spam cds and u get away lol. People RP on void only to pew pew in their advantage. But u still might have a point there.

Maybe Void needs to set up some clear rules, add some organization into the server(population) since everything is pretty basic now: U come, get money, u go to sparta and u pvp for the rest of your life Perhaps join a clan, and still pvp in sparta ll your life and maybe head out somewhere else xD

Take the hell systems, AWESOME systems, just the downside is that u have to fly 300k just to find out a starflier is sold on that planet

Perhaps some organization and clear rules would be a idea? Correct me if im wrong please, just trying to help thats all no need to flame ^^

Dac'Orash
PS.
AWESOME avatar zyraxes xD Reminds me of indiana jones lol

PSS.
I see allot of people in these forums, but WHY dont u see some of those peopls IN game? I see many of the forums ingame, but for example enoying nomad ive seen just once..I havent seen shyne around, orion/order, only 2 dacia? The most active people/clans atm are:
-some freelancer(old-voidians and new freelancers)
-ESF
-Black Legion
-4S_Squad
--|Nomads|-
-[AoF]

Cmon people! Maybe a idea for the admins to send a PM to ALL people on the forums? Saying that the server has new mod, blablabla. Void forums has MANY members, sending them a PM sends a mail to their e-mail. When they read the PM-Mail, they read the PM and then could return to the void?

[Gr8-Lizard]

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[anoyingnomad]

Lizard i have no idea what your onto xD

Ive not been ingame lately cause its pretty much what you say. PvP the rest of my life in sparta. Not entirely my thing.

I still vote for the Alexandria gates to be back in place. It worked. Why removed them? It all gone downhill on that moment.


Second, no one ever gets in the 3D systems cause there all the same and have nothing special in it.

And wasn't Strail working on some news letter to our e-mail accounts? That would surely help alot i think. Just to know theres like 8,640 people registered here! SURELY around atleast 100 would come and check this place again. 100.

[Battor]

I think that RP is the only saviour for this lovely place we call Void.PLayers should play (BE/BEHAVE) as factions,have same diplomacy relation as their own faction they playing.All should have faction tags in their character names and should defend/mostly fly/play in their "faction" territory systems.If that happens,there would be players all over the Sirius,not only in Sparta,Alexandria and Babylonia.Bretonia,Liberty,Rheinland and Kusari are being empty cos players fly only in those 3 systems i wroted...

cheers

[anoyingnomad]

When the Gates were still in place, you had people in all those systems as well. Why? Trading was ''easy and quick''

But you had a whole load of pirates onto you cause of that. Wich also meant navy on those pirates. Wich fills the circle of RP.

[cmdrsaman]

About ideas for drawing in more players, and making the Void more interesting in general: we're discussing some of those, and you might just be surprised in the near future. In the meantime, though, there is an old poll on the site (check the left side, survey tab), called "In Multi Player, I would like to be able to do more...". I recommend you vote there, or maybe someone could put up a new one. Right now, "roleplay" is leading with 655 votes, and "organised events" is second with 427 votes. (2020 votes in total.) But that poll is an old one, so it might not be representative of the opinions of players now.

Oh, and at the two Dacia players: let's keep this thread clean, so resolve your differences elsewhere please.
Also, servers don't have "strong" or "weak" FLAC, as FLAC is developed by third parties. Some servers do use other anti-cheat software, though. That doesn't mean FLAC is configured uniformly on all servers that run it, though. It's a pretty complex piece of software, after all.

One more thing, @ Shiver: you might notice that the Reavers are still hanging around. There are just pretty few of us who are still regularly active atm. Well, three to be precise. I saw the same level of activity from ESF around these days too, though, and you did mention them :)

[Blackheart-X-]

Greetings,

I read this with great interest.  Ages ago I posted that the void would need to change its ways or it will die.  200 people every night on Disco and 10 - 20 here is the sign of a dying server. Do you want this place to be like TT mod or Crossfire, which are brilliant but only 2 or 3 people play there.

Listen, I love this place and have helped out with ideas and donations  (I offered the idea of a rp only board which was put into place by Strail and I donated to buy our own server when my old friend Watchwolf asked us to chip in and help.)  I have gave loads of ideas to help the server but it always falls on deaf ears.  

The void has always been a PVP server and has always been very relaxed on rules.  Isnt it funny how the most popular server is stricly RP and very strict on rules?  I have said this about a year ago and nobody bothered their arse.  The void MUST change from being a PVP server to a RP server before its too late, it aint fucking rocket science, but nobody pays attention.

FFs enforce strict rules, make people who are in clans, tag their traders bring back the 5 gates in Alex. Make Tohoku a ghreat trade route as it used to be 4 years ago.

Why does it take a player like me who only plays now and agian to point this out to admins.  

Everything I have said above has been posted by myself (in eithetr this char or one of my others) more than a year ago, and NOTHING has been done.

I absolutely love this mod and only post this shit because I feel so deeply for it. TBH I don't play here because it isnt fun anymore, but FFS I wish it was.

PLEASE take action NOW before it really is too late.

Thanks, Alan. aka BLACKHEART, SAVAGE, VOODOO etc etc lol

[Shiverblade]

[quote="Blackheart-X-";p="222340"]Greetings,

I read this with great interest.  Ages ago I posted that the void would need to change its ways or it will die.  200 people every night on Disco and 10 - 20 here is the sign of a dying server. Do you want this place to be like TT mod or Crossfire, which are brilliant but only 2 or 3 people play there.

Listen, I love this place and have helped out with ideas and donations  (I offered the idea of a rp only board which was put into place by Strail and I donated to buy our own server when my old friend Watchwolf asked us to chip in and help.)  I have gave loads of ideas to help the server but it always falls on deaf ears.  

The void has always been a PVP server and has always been very relaxed on rules.  Isnt it funny how the most popular server is stricly RP and very strict on rules?  I have said this about a year ago and nobody bothered their arse.  The void MUST change from being a PVP server to a RP server before its too late, it aint f***ing rocket science, but nobody pays attention.

FFs enforce strict rules, make people who are in clans, tag their traders bring back the 5 gates in Alex. Make Tohoku a ghreat trade route as it used to be 4 years ago.

Why does it take a player like me who only plays now and agian to point this out to admins.  

Everything I have said above has been posted by myself (in eithetr this char or one of my others) more than a year ago, and NOTHING has been done.

I absolutely love this mod and only post this sh** because I feel so deeply for it. TBH I don't play here because it isnt fun anymore, but FFS I wish it was.

PLEASE take action NOW before it really is too late.

Thanks, Alan. aka BLACKHEART, SAVAGE, VOODOO etc etc lol[/quote]

1 thing to say...Amen.

-Strict rules(dont make the server a pure RP server like disco, just mix some soft RP with some pvp)
-The clan-tags/templates should have solid reps. For example if your playing outcast clan u should have corsairs on solid red, just like the europe navy and the houses. That way, people will scatter more aroudn serius.
-As everyone mentioned make the 5 gates in alex thing back
-Organize some things.
-Maybe a idea to give every HV to VHF ship 2 gun/missle mounts. Then people still can use missles, and then it wont be spamming. But also reduce the projectile/turn speed of the torpedos cause some people who fight them hate getting hit so easely by them, and the cannonballs projectile/turn speed have to be reduced SLIGHTLY so it actualy takes alittlebit aim to hit ^^
-Maybe a idea to make sparta a gate-way system? A system with serveral jumpgates to serveral places. Since abandoned city is nomad tech, the europeans took the city to secure the jumping through those gates? Place some npcs in sparta too

There is 1 thing what ALL other good FL servers have in comment(i think) what void hasnt: They all have a continue in RP story. Disco has for example now kusari vs bretionia wars and liberty vs rheinland wars. The RP story still goes on there, void is still living just after the nomad war! ;p vector once sended in a pictur on forums, well i once suggested that those creatures were creatures who killed the Dom'Kvash, that the Dom'Kvash dissapearence happened because they sacrificed theirselves to lock those creatures in? And now they are free and the hole serius sector is in terror now. And the technoligy what the Dom'Kvash left the nomads to study, has been partly discovered by the humans and the nomads..So to win the nomads and humans have to work together what they wont. Something like that would be MAYBE nice.

It could be that my ideas are good, could also be my ideas SUCK, im just trying to help like everyone is. No one wants to play on a low populated server. This server needs something more then PvP all your life on 1 spot, the clans who play here/old voidians they love it but the new people: They hate it, and the new people is the future of the void!

The server needs SOME change and/or SOMETHING new/exciting. Wether is RP mixed with PvP, or just PvP ->Maybe some ideas of above will help. And i heared someone was busy with a newsletter, then finish that quickly cause it would certaintly work!

CheersZ Dac'Orash
PS.
I know this is the final mod, maybe a idea to make with all the ideas from this entire topic and a few ideas the devs allready finished: A V8.5 mod? Dunno xD Cause the mod is awesome, just the gameplay hasnt changed heh.

PSS.
This would be a thing what would also help:
I see allot of people come online, then they see only 5 people are playing then they log off: That isnt helping..If EVERYONE just STAY online, then other people will think ah some players lets join, then others will join too: Dont think: Meh just 5 ppl on, going to do something different. Think:5 people online, toobad..Lets stay online trying to do something solo while other people might get online.

[AoF[X]STS[X]]

well the server is bater now but if they keep the goods and Fix all the BS proplem we well hav good namber of players

but after all the server is Rise Again  :D  :D  good luk VOIDS

[Cursed_One]

Ey shiver, even thou I dont contribute anything I like to think Im pretty active X=

now keep on discussing this topic, its intresting oO

PS: I support Battor, unless he edits his post to something else, in which case I do not support battor : )

[Zsoca]

I only play FL since October 2008, so I have no idea what "trends" was before that but, what i see now is that all the uprising and populated servers are RP or relaxed RP. Discovery, Shattere Worlds, Hamburg City, Freeworlds...Why is it? Maybe players are bored of random shooting to each other, flying with no real purpose, just for sake of flying and fighting. Lets take for example me. 1 and half year ago I played only at Void, shooting...and shooting, but now I play at 2 RP servers and 1 PVP - Void. Its aint funny for me anymore to just do nothing but fight. The problem is that I think Void will never be a RP server. These was and is a PVP server. Players will hardly adopt to RP. Over the years players here has got ultimate freedom RPvise. You want Corsair weapons on Outcast ship? No porblem. Nomad gear in Robot ship or GC gear on KNF ship? No problem. Its PVP no RP. So imagine to old players when they will be able to mount stuff in the ships only if it is in RP...Well I have nothing more to say ATM  :D