Do eAussies have Friends or are we just online nigels?
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by StewartB
I would like everyone to look at their profile and how many of us have the society builder award? My guess would be not many of us at all.
I checked the Top 10 of our citizens and only 1 SRG91 had this achievement. What does they say about our community? Australia's population is very low compared to most countries in this game. What are we doing about this? Does our latest CP Venja have a plan to increase our population?
As individuals do we encourage friends to join the game? Do we all play this game as we have no friends and this is away to escape the dreary day to day and feel like we are accomplishing something?
I am interested in peoples thoughts on how we can encourage people to the game and keep them interested past the level 10 point. Do we still have a Ministry of Culture? Does it still welcome newbies and coach them in the game?
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Who'd delierately bring someone into this game??? It's a very brave person indeed that does. Personally Im far too embarrassed by Admins constant flip flops, blatant denials, changing rules and idiotic updates to invite any one of my friends to this game. The countries and players that have high populations, and have people who have achieved the society builder, how many are multies??? most of them would be i assure you. As for Education??? We have tried very hard in Dept of Education to retain and keep new players interested. The trouble is, that when admin changes everything that the game is about, every few days, it discourages people greatly. Low population??-- Blame admin
So why are we here? There must be some redeeming aspects to this game otherwise we would not be playing?
those of us that have seen the good days of erep dont want to see our work go to waste, as much as admin try to take it away from us. Other than that, its a 2 click game and after you are done, we all go back to playing real games.
Well, all us cool kids Spammed GE and SWC Forums to get theirs back in V1 😛
Except i think only two continue to play now 🙁
We can't all be as cool as you AC.
Point taken Stewart but you have to ask yourself: who would have the nerve to invite people to an online game? We're addicts .. but some folks have a life.
I have the nerve to ask randoms to join this game but they won't. Who would want to play this crap game, I only play because I'm addicted as much as I hate it. Please unless someone works in Radio, Journalism or in Televisionm don't even try to get people to join this game!
One could make an argument that many of the people with Society Builder medals got them from multis. Not all, by any means, but many.
I am embarassed to say I play this game lol
I've brought 4 - 5 people into this game; I'm half way to society builder.
I brought seven, only one of them is still alive, rest didn't even reach lvl 5 lol
I brought in Redrhys who is sort of kinda alive. A mate from school, i am one of the brave who told people of this wicked game.
'So why are we here? There must be some redeeming aspects to this game otherwise we would not be playing?'
Two reasons. One is the community that is independent of the game, and the game acts solely as a tie to the community.
Second is the fact that humans, once they invest time and money into something, find it harder and harder to abandon it and invest more and more time and money into it.
Not to mention that, when you get down to it, it's incredibly hard to recruit Australians to a game like this.
The only people who do recommend it to their friends is the people from the Balkans and shiz. Countries who hate their neighbours and what to defeat them in a game - The game is definitely past it's peak.
Darn, I must have missed the peak
Where are your friends that you have recommended to join erep Stew?
I got schoft to join erep.
I've told all the voices in my head to join ....
None of my friends are nerdy enough to consider playing this game.
It's not like we haven't tried to get people to join either; this game just requires people of a certain type.
Schoft - I have had the same issues as many are describing here it takes a certain type of person to play this game. I have had about 10 people join but never made it past level 10. Hence this article to get the brains trust working. I have also recently posted some ads on facebook and trying some targeted marketing at the moment.
to be fair, majorly of my 10 only lasted until level 5 or 6 (or watever the requirement was), i told them to keep clicking until that day, and after, only 1 or 2 stayed for a while, then left as well.
Let's face it - most Aussies just aren't nerdy enough for this game. That's actually a good thing...
or maybe aussies dont have patriotic feelings
try to bring nathionalistic stuf to the game and people will come
I dont think australian nationalism translates into online gaming.
I also think that Baby booms aimed at mass markets of random people will have very low retention rates. The people that come into the game by their own volition are far more likely to stay - even this group has a retention rates of about 10%.
Our best strategy is to target this latter group of new players and educate them about the game and the community aspects, in an attempt to boost that retention rate. If we could lift it from 10% to say 30% we would be adding around 200 new citizens a month which would be an enormous boost if we could sustain it for several months.
LOL pity most new players are just multies
Venja good strategy. How do you purpose to target the new players and mentor them?
stewart... we have been sending messages to noobs as ong as i can remember. The problem is now tho if you cared to read or look at new players, MOST ARE MULTIES
do you understand yet????
Like the good ronnyJnrJrn said, I value my real life friendships too highly to recommend this game..
I am most certainly not a Nigel. Or am I?? OH GOD
What the hell is a Nigel?
if you wanna attract aussies to the game, then add some sporting content...or gambling...lol