Mmmkay, collection of ideas I've had over the past few months/weeks about non-gameplay changes that could be made to improve the game.
1st.
A new 'Community Manager' for want of a better title, someone to provide a direct liason from the playerbase to Azzer, and from Azzer to the playerbase, whilst also managing the other staff elements (Helpers, Forum Mods and IRC Ops). Other roles could include dealing with multies and other offenses ingame to save Azzer from having to, etc.
2nd.
Audio/Video tutorials on Youtube of basic gameplay elements, by various volunteering helpers/experienced players to provide simple, easy to understand how to guides for the basic gameplay ideas, planting, harvester/gardener management, land purchasing and acre selection, simple attacking (flakking, simple let attacks etc), the basics of AR and the basics of how H/F works (in theory). (Idea somewhat shamelessly stolen from Penguin)
3rd.
Dunno if this one would be possible, probably would be though at least in theory, a Facebook portal to the game, so you can play through Facebook, fairly straightforward I'd guess.
4th.
Kinda follows on from the Facebook idea, a Lite version of the game for phone access, make it easier for anyone to get online via a phone (even though I personally don't like the idea of being able to login anywhere anytime, the phone gaming market is getting larger all the time and making the game more accessible to it can't be a bad thing for playerbase size). Basics of this would be a removal of custom colour schemes, removal of some of the unnecessary for gameplay pages like Statistics, World Tables, Combat Stats etc. (Lafin was working on something along these lines a while back)
5th.
An Advertising campaign, via Facebook and potentially Google AdWords if feasible.
6th.
A Twitter feed, managed by Azzer and any other future Admin staff or Community Managers, allowing quick and easy communication with the Admin staff.
Opinions, constructive criticisms, and other ideas are welcome.
1st.
A new 'Community Manager' for want of a better title, someone to provide a direct liason from the playerbase to Azzer, and from Azzer to the playerbase, whilst also managing the other staff elements (Helpers, Forum Mods and IRC Ops). Other roles could include dealing with multies and other offenses ingame to save Azzer from having to, etc.
2nd.
Audio/Video tutorials on Youtube of basic gameplay elements, by various volunteering helpers/experienced players to provide simple, easy to understand how to guides for the basic gameplay ideas, planting, harvester/gardener management, land purchasing and acre selection, simple attacking (flakking, simple let attacks etc), the basics of AR and the basics of how H/F works (in theory). (Idea somewhat shamelessly stolen from Penguin)
3rd.
Dunno if this one would be possible, probably would be though at least in theory, a Facebook portal to the game, so you can play through Facebook, fairly straightforward I'd guess.
4th.
Kinda follows on from the Facebook idea, a Lite version of the game for phone access, make it easier for anyone to get online via a phone (even though I personally don't like the idea of being able to login anywhere anytime, the phone gaming market is getting larger all the time and making the game more accessible to it can't be a bad thing for playerbase size). Basics of this would be a removal of custom colour schemes, removal of some of the unnecessary for gameplay pages like Statistics, World Tables, Combat Stats etc. (Lafin was working on something along these lines a while back)
5th.
An Advertising campaign, via Facebook and potentially Google AdWords if feasible.
6th.
A Twitter feed, managed by Azzer and any other future Admin staff or Community Managers, allowing quick and easy communication with the Admin staff.
Opinions, constructive criticisms, and other ideas are welcome.