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| Fizban Dantares | Jul 13 2008, 01:30 PM Post #1 |
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First of all an old scripture by Lord Sunnycool back in the early days:
Activity has been dying lately, except for the RPG which is likely to never die. OGame is also quite healthy. But apart from those two aspects of our forum it's beginning to get quite difficult for activity to prosper here. It's time we try and recruit some people again. Currently most of the new members have come from IPU/OGame and that is great! It really wonderful how that game (thanks to the leaders of IPU) has brought people to the forum. But we need to try and get other people here again. Previously the GW-forums was an important part of our recruiting process and most of the oldest members have come from that part. Those forum do not excist anymore (bloody GW) so we need to try elsewhere. Both your locals as well as the network communities you are members on... try and get people to join TWC. Any other ideas or solutions? |
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| Gorfang | Jul 13 2008, 03:09 PM Post #2 |
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Nathaniel Drakkon
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The only other idea I can think of is to bulk e-mail members to see if some inactive people will come back. Unfortunately for me the only other forum I visit nowadays is Warseer. I could try putting a link in my sig but I'm not sure of their rules on advertising other forums, need to check that first. EDIT: I'd also add that a lot of people are probably on holiday at the moment so that might be adding to inactivity which will return. |
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| Jimjjo | Jul 13 2008, 05:13 PM Post #3 |
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The Great Commander!
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I'll try and get two of my mates to join. They're both used to forums as they are members of the ONM forums and are big Nintendo fans. |
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| HIC | Jul 13 2008, 10:41 PM Post #4 |
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I've tried before with little sucess, however a mass e-mail seems like the way to go. |
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped" "Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower." Former name(s): haradiscool, David | |
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| Lathaon | Jul 13 2008, 10:49 PM Post #5 |
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Currently, the only forums I ever post in, apart from TWC and, very rarely TMTOA, are Ulthuan and the Ogre Stronghold. The only reason I even joined the latter was because they have a working LDTTW system and members willing to battle, so I can hardly say I have a lot of influence there. As for Ulthuan, well it's a possibility, but you know what we High Elf players are like. We whine a lot... If someone can be bothered to design a recruitment banner for a sig, or at least come up with an idea and persuade me to make it something, I will gladly display it though... ...so long as it clearly puts FHAG as the most important part of TWC, that is
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| Gorfang | Jul 13 2008, 11:17 PM Post #6 |
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A banner to display in sigs would be good. I don't know about ideas, but how about combining Rudder's Castoden picture with some sort of Realmer picture with some sort of battle sequence in the background. Slap For Honour and Glory on there with perhaps some sort of tagline. |
![]() Anubis, IPU is dead, long live IPU! A-Team member. "If a loyal servant of Weissland is threatened, I will aid him to my dying breath, with every drop of my blood. There are older and more powerful things in the world that have faced me and underestimated my resolve, to their end." - Nathaniel Drakkon "For what is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger!" - Aeron Damphair, a Song of Ice and Fire. Visit the Drakkon Grimoire - The Collected, Completed Nathaniel Drakkon Fiction | |
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| Lathaon | Jul 14 2008, 04:29 PM Post #7 |
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For the Realmer, how about a picture of Ariakas? j/k Sunny maybe? |
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| Gorfang | Jul 14 2008, 04:41 PM Post #8 |
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Sunny would be the obvious choice. |
![]() Anubis, IPU is dead, long live IPU! A-Team member. "If a loyal servant of Weissland is threatened, I will aid him to my dying breath, with every drop of my blood. There are older and more powerful things in the world that have faced me and underestimated my resolve, to their end." - Nathaniel Drakkon "For what is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger!" - Aeron Damphair, a Song of Ice and Fire. Visit the Drakkon Grimoire - The Collected, Completed Nathaniel Drakkon Fiction | |
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| Alex | Jul 15 2008, 09:04 AM Post #9 |
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Getting members is easier said than done, simply because few people are interested in the Lord of the Rings aspect of things nowadays. However if we advertise the FHaG RPG on several RPG sites, maybe we can attract some activity that way. |
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| knoxy | Jul 15 2008, 09:20 PM Post #10 |
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Ehhhhhhh (in the syle of the fonz) im here. |
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| Lathaon | Jul 16 2008, 07:51 PM Post #11 |
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Do you know any? I think any kind of fantasy-related forum could be good for FHAG, though it might be good to see expansion in the other areas of TWC as well. |
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| Captain Andy | Jul 20 2008, 05:19 PM Post #12 |
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I too could try on the ogre stronghold, tis a good site
Specially for an ogre player like me. A few people liked my writing on it so I will see if I can convince them to come here for the literature.
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"Should you ever feel agony for the loss of your Brothers due to enemy guns, bear through it with a stern smile and let your enemy know that you will get into combat soon enough. His judgement cannot be avoided! Should your charge falter under heavy resistence, roar your devotion in His name and amount whatever strength you have left at one enemy point and crush it utterly! Let the enemy feel your pain by turning their's into agony! Should you lay beaten and dying on the field, laugh with pride for even in death our enemies will fear us, leave them with a scar that will haunt them till the time of their retribution!" - Chaplain Valorus | |
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| Lord Sunnycool | Jul 21 2008, 07:07 AM Post #13 |
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Hey folks I am now back from my 3 weeks vacation to Bulgaria (it was great
) and I am very glad to see this initiative coming up!Now - I think you guys come up with some good ideas. I will comment on a few of them: 1) Bulk e-mailing is somewhat useful - last time I used it was for the anniversary, but we really did not get many members back. We got a glimpse of Pezza and that is about it. I will try it again though, but not before mid-end-august, because Gorfang is absolutely right in the vacations being activity drainers. 2) Advertising on forum sites has recruited us some of our best members but it is also somewhat hard to do. Most moderators on other sites do not really like it and I know, from experience on TWC itself, that when people advertise, few are bothered to register, even fewer to remain there (The Golden Counsil was sort of born out of the whole TWC thing, and although the best of its kind, it died (several times)). Back on the GW forums it was not even allowed to advertise, so I used my sneaky plan of asking for msns from regular GW-users so that we could chat and they could help me. I got quite a few MSNs in these sessions (most notable: Chris (Brannalbinn), Locky and Lathaon - sorry if I have forgotten someone notable - my brain is slow at the moment )So that worked back then, but needless to say that it is not guaranteed to work. Now - I still think we should attempt some good old advertising and for that purpose I agree on a recruitment banner as well as focus on For Honor and Glory. Make the concept sound really awesome and interesting and we might have some people joining in. Of course the problem with the vast FHaG activity is that we have so much lore and RPG done that it is pretty hard to get into it all. I, myself, probably only know of 75 % or less of all that has happened in the FHaG forums (probably much less) and so I think that we should prepare people that it may be overwhelming in the beginning. I don't know. 3) At the mention of LDTTW by Lathaon, I couldn't help but feel that we should give it another shot and use it is a recruitment weapon on GW-fansites. I have drifted away from the hobby, but I am sure I can easily get back into it if we got LDTTW from old working. It would be so awesome to play skirmishes with you people. I know we can make it great, but do we have enough interested people? Maybe we can advertise with LDTTW being in-development so newcomer GW-veterans/players can have their say in its development? This opportunity for involvement from the start may prove to be useful. My problem is that I have been far away from any forum sites for a long time, so I could join in but people who join in to advertise usually are not looked well upon in my experience. So in our "Get Members Campaign II" I think that we should focus on FHaG, but that would probably just result in more activity in FHaG - we need to make sure that activity blossoms in the other forums as well and so I think we should rekindle the fires of the GW hobby by continuing the work on LDTTW. Just a few points I thought of. I am very happy that this has been brought up, but now I come to think of it, we should probably wait till mid-end-August rather than waste our time, effort and energy on a Recruitment Campaign during the vacations. This is all up for discussion of course (I have always loved discussions in the top category of the site ))
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| Alex | Jul 21 2008, 11:01 AM Post #14 |
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Well then, Stanislav, fancy a game of LDTTW sometime soon? I'll use Lord Vader, my Uruk captain, and take on your entire army again
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| Lathaon | Jul 21 2008, 11:36 PM Post #15 |
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They have WHFB LDTTW on the Ogre Stronghold already. What we need is for me to finish WLB
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| Lord Sunnycool | Jul 22 2008, 06:30 AM Post #16 |
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I was thinking of perhaps refining that system somehow? And get more people into it? I am up for a skrimish anyways even though I have forgotten most of LotR SBG, but I wouldn't mind trying again some time soon
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| Alex | Jul 22 2008, 07:36 PM Post #17 |
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Sounds good, but yes, it does require some tweaking
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| Lord Sunnycool | Jul 23 2008, 07:03 AM Post #18 |
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I had been thinking of maybe making some template circles to represent units that can be used in the excell battlefield instead of the rectangles of the Excell cells. As images they can be moved around easily and through the select funtion more than one can be selected for fast movement of several units on the same time. Being circles, it is also more like the real miniatures. As for movement, we could have some "radius" circles which can help show exactly how far a unit can move. Just thoughts
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| Lathaon | Jul 24 2008, 08:14 PM Post #19 |
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Use powerpoint!
Seriously, I already have a kill team board ready for when I was going to battle Jimmy, even set so that 1 nudge = 1 inch. And with powerpoint, you can put all the terrain on the slide master so you can only click on the troops. There's still the problem of diagonal movement with that but you can of course make a line however many inches (I don't use your crappy LotR cm measurements ) and rotate it to measure how far you can move diagonally.Or go the WLB way and make a hexagonal movement system. |
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| Lord Sunnycool | Jul 25 2008, 06:35 AM Post #20 |
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Powerpoint sounds like a great idea. As for meassuring, why not just make large "template helping circles/lines" for range and movement and use them. It should not be too hard. Sounds exciting, I must say!
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Specially for an ogre player like me. A few people liked my writing on it so I will see if I can convince them to come here for the literature.

) and I am very glad to see this initiative coming up!
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