Hire a marketing team - please.

[LF]

I vote we make a special shirt just for Heisman with that exact spelling. Maybe add a few of his quotes on the back. People would think he was retarded and maybe donate to our cause

[Crescent Seal]

should make a special cap for bat too then

[roxxkatt]

Trench Wars won't go to ASSS because tt's called A SMALL subspace server for a reason, it's only "tested" in small populated zones, putting it in TW could really do more harm than good. TWCore works perfect for Trench Wars, I don't see why moving to ASSS will do TW any good. We would need to spend and invest alot of time in converting all our modules on the bots into a different language where it does the exact same thing atm but works.

One day we might* see TWCore's MatchBot's recording TWD Games...

* = I mean MIGHT!

this only proves that you know absolutely nothing about it

the real reason tw is still using subgame is that the bots would have to be rewritten in another programming language
& its still on priit's server

[the_paul]

Guys lets listen to Cheese! look at his sig hes the real authority around here on what it takes to run a real sized zone

[Heisman]

annnnnd this is why nothing will ever happen. Bunch of idiots here.

[Jones]

I don't see why moving to ASSS will do TW any good. We would need to spend and invest alot of time in converting all our modules on the bots into a different language where it does the exact same thing atm but works.

this only proves that you know absolutely nothing about it

the real reason tw is still using subgame is that the bots would have to be rewritten in another programming language

ok

[Riverside]

Lack of organization, lack of communication, lack of action. Someone needs to really get on top of this by posting once a week about updates on the marketing funds, ideas, plans of action as well as updates to the website. I haven't been in TW for a long time but I'll tell you one thing that is just as important if not more important than revamping the tw website...in game tutorial. I don't know if it's been done, I do know that I didn't have the original idea to do it but I pushed hard to have it done a couple years ago and it's always been 'in the works.' How good will any advertising be if a player logs in, doesn't know any buttons or commands, get's frustrated and immediately quits? If we have an in-game tutorial finally but it sucks revamp it. How many people that play this game were originally introduced by a friend? I was, and it helped because he told me what the controls were and the objectives and everything. The tutorial should not be some boring text-based crap, it should be interactive and intelligent. Offer $300 for someone to make a damn good in-game tutorial. Also, if some money is being spent on the game itself or indirectly on the game itself (Arobas is making a website) then spend some more money on the game and hire someone to convert TW over to a different server, maybe ASSS or something that would allow the game to be more customized or offer other features. I still think it's impressive that HZ has replays. We could easily do highlights from TWD/TWL matches after the game is over.

tl;dr: weekly updates for the progess/status of TW funds/marketing/website, consider spending some money on the game itself for an in-game simple but powerful tutorial and considering changing server for TW to offer more functionality

Uh... this?

Still not enough being done roflroflrofl. I understand it takes time, but it's been a full year now since donations 'opened up'. What the hell is the holdup? (No, i'm not asking for 1000 excuses, just get crap done and get it done right).

[fLaReD]

not sure if you guys are aware of it or not but there IS already a tutorial in pub. also, staff are alerted of new players and have a way of getting their attention through objons which show up on their screen asking them if they need any help.

[Demonic]

this only proves that you know absolutely nothing about it

the real reason tw is still using subgame is that the bots would have to be rewritten in another programming language
& its still on priit's server

Not exactly true dezmond, as ASSS is alot more powerful and since its controlled server side means it cures issues with bots going down, and makes alot of extra commands possible which the bots cant handle currently or would never be able to handle. Take the football module in hz, where you can put designated phases on powerballs etc. Also hz handles 150+ during big rshl games, which is only half of tw's population so a little demeaning to call them small.

However, it would be a massive project to change a zone as established as TW into an ASSS server, something that with the current level of dev in terms of programmers etc would probably not be feasible, so on that side i agree with you.

[Dezmond]

I did not say ASSS was not "powerful". I said that what is the point in completely changing something that was created for TW alone, to waste time to convert everything into something that would need careful watch because we will definitely have a hell alot of bugs, no doubt. TW would also use more modules than probably any other ASSS zone atm, due to the demand of bots etc. I agree with you, having ASSS would cure bot down times because they are on the server, the only way a bot can go down is if the actual zone is down. I think using HZ is a poor excuse, because their game play is obviously different from Trench Wars apart from our ?go hockey. Our hockey won't be good as HZ's hockey in terms of how it's coordinated via the bot, but Spooked and people have tried their best to make it suit your needs and comparable to HZ, yes, one day we might actually have stuff that record games like that...but it's not just dependent on OUR bots, it's dependent on our server as well, as well as many possible updates that could use ASSS features.

There are many advantages to ASSS, but they advantages require programmers which we don't have. (So cheese, back off, all you'd code is a redirect to people who enter TW into your pathetic distension zone which has what? 0 population?!)

I was not knocking on any zone's current population count, but as you say HZ gets 150+ "on big rshl" games, which I don't think runs everyday does it, so it's not very constant in terms of what TW has everyday.

I'm not going into a debate over ASSS vs Subgame, cause the fact is TW won't move to ASSS for more reasons than I mentioned. And a big reason (by sadly what that *** Cheese said) is Priitk still has ownership of our zone as far as I know. So technically he would need to be involved in the decision :P

Sorry for the long ass story, but that's an outline.

Cheese, don't bother trying to argue with me.

[Cojafoji]

maybe an ad on reddit? anyone try that? target the gamer community there.

just a thought. it's cheap as hell, and you can target whatever sub reddits you want.

[roxxkatt]

distension zone

nice bandwagon, HMS

all you'd code is a redirect

you are dumb

your pathetic distension zone which has what? 0 population?!)
I was not knocking on any zone's current population count

lol'd

Cheese, don't bother trying to argue with me.

who said this was an argument?
arguments only happen if both parties know something.
i am telling you.

[Supreme]

[kthx]

Yeah dezmond leave cheese alone, he has much more experience running a zone than you do, it doesn't matter that the years of work he put into making modules never got tested because his zone never had more than three players in it at one time.. I am sure they all work just fine and would work even better if 300+ people were currently in the zone using them. He obviously has much more experience running bot dev in major zones than you do, how could you even try arguing.

/sarcasm.

[Raver420]