Unique Servers Leading to Success

[brokk]

Originally Posted by Elk

thats what i meant, those pixel edges are made on purpose, because the files are 8bit pngs... and not 24 bit, that saves loaaaads of resources

if you are into antialiased stuff, you better make something with flash

Do you mind me asking what you mean by "resources"?

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

which is pretty hilarious considering Yen pretty much pulled the gameplay together in less than a month and was able to make use of the little amount of assets we had at the time.

leaving me under the impression that the best way to success is to develop the core gameplay of a server in the less than a month and have it be fun.

using new body sprites and all that has never turned out well either unless you have development brute force behind you. it's much better to develop a server using the head/bodies everyone is already familiar with than re-inventing the wheel on something that people probably won't like.

I think Zodiac is different from the majority of other player worlds in that it is frequently updated with meaningful content. Era has similar luxuries. Perhaps the key is to have a simplistic system which doesn't limit development?

[figured]

Originally Posted by Stephen

I think Zodiac is different from the majority of other player worlds in that it is frequently updated with meaningful content. Era has similar luxuries. Perhaps the key is to have a simplistic system which doesn't limit development?

Yeah. I have noticed that if you update (even little updates) but more frequently. People will login to see what is new. If you uploaded new content every few days people would always be curious and want to see.. That might be overkill but yeah.

[Elk]

the problem is, its just the old players, that come and see whats new... its something im dealing with right now in game psychology, overcontentation

[brokk]

I wish they would do something to reach out and bring in more new players. Perhaps putting the graal client for download on the windows 8 app store, the Mac app store, Steam, etc.

If they put the player world list on facebook, that'd be fantastic.

It seems like on all the servers, everyone has 500+ hours. No one new comes in, and the old leave.

Another thought:
If there was advertisements for PC graal on the Iphone servers, kids (seems like that's who mostly play the iphone server) would wanna check it out.