We need help getting our shard name out there, idk if i didnt write out a good enough ad on here or not , but we are losing our small bit of people on there due to the lack of people...
...I'm better than you because I have help...I sometimes struggle when i read things like
I hope you don´t forget, iam not native english, so somestimes i mismatch phrases....I'm better than you because I have help...
Sorry, I may have been paraphrasing.
When i read your first post it looked more like you want get more people because of donations.When it satisfy you to run a shard with less people and no donation its also fine. I just think its wrong nowadays making a shard with the mind " donators will pay me up" and then cry when the finances arent up. In the past there were also some shards did so. Running a shard for a few months and offer tons of donation stuff like luck deeds and sdi deeds and such without brain just in order to collect money. Then one day decide to add a cap after some people donated for 10k sdi Armor parts and loosing the whole community. NP make new shard new name new nickname and change content a bit, try same again.im not quite sure how to take the replies... we wanted to open our shard bc a lot of the shard owners seemed like they neglected the player needs, or didnt quite satisfy that certain taste that people had... so we made what we seemed would be right, and thats what everyone has done... am i wrong? look at how many people have their own shard or have opened one.. all people who had the same thought.. i was simply asking advice.. i dont have the financial background to throw hundreds of dollars at anything.. im just trying to make a place for people to play... not a business... thats where the line gets drawn... are you making a fun place for people to play or are you trying to draw income from it. that hasnt been any of our thoughts and it wont be, and i guess till then we will stick to our 3-4 people and stay happy.
You also should share your burdens within the players. If the players complain there are too less new players it should be in their interest to vote for you or grab more people around. I always tell this our players, that i honestly not care if they are 5 people or 50 people. I don´t care if they donate or not or if they only play my shard when their loved content is overpowered. I go the way i think is right and people who follow the same vision will stay.Thats more what i was looking for.. a little bit of advice lol thanks, i dint intend on being money hungry. haha
I have to agree with you there Dian. My shard is running over 200 custom scripts, a lot of which I got from RunUO or here, but they are all customized for my shard. The other trick is getting all that stuff working together and behaving lolYou know one thing that turns me off from any shard is their advertising custom scripts/systems, only to see the stuff is just released forum scripts, that anyone can grab.
I dont think many people realize this, but doing that kinda gives the idea that the shard is not really capable of doing their own work.. or is only able to add work from others as if its their own.
Im not meaning this in any way towards your shard, @Mr Garrison ... mmmm kaaaaay? Just something that I have noticed a lot of 'shard owners' do. Its great to add in stuff from the forums, just be careful how you advertise them.
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