A Proposition

[Ilya]

not to be a dick but don't waste your money on this

this will not increase the player base

but if you wanna buy prophetstatement.com, i'd be willing to sell it to you for my friends & family discount of $500

[Kahlan]

Off topic. I play Diablo 2 on US East. Accnt names Brondius, Brondius2, Brondius3. Hit me up Diablo players haha. But I think the idea overall probably wouldn't ever work.

[Reaver]

Saying it wouldn't work is like saying advertising wouldn't work and that's a billion dollar industry. Let's take an extreme example, let's suppose a millionaire comes a long and offers to pay for a superbowl commercial for continuum, the ad is watched by millions of people, are you implying that this wouldn't increase the player base at all? I mean, I can spend some time here proving to you guys that advertising works and that there are people who have never heard of continuum that would be interested in playing but I'd rather not waste your time and mine. You're either in or your out, it's that simple fellas. If there are enough people in then I'll spend a decent chunk of money on it

[Chao.]

I'd be willing to help you out, Reaver. I'll PM you my email address later so we can keep in contact.

[Burnt]

Well it says there's 245 active members of this forum. Say 10% (which is probably optimistic not to mention most won't be able to post about diablo because they nothing about it) of those agree to post on your forum and each do an average of one post a day. That's 25 posts per day and 175 posts per week. Is that going to be enough to help make your forum popular enough so it's worth your investment?

[Kahlan]

Well if you make it, I'll be happy to post a bunch of junk in your forum to keep it active. I think you would just need Ilya, though. Then you'd have plenty of ridiculous posts on the forum.

[paradise!]

To reach the critical mass needed to get it moving would probably require those 175 posts to be talking actively about Diablo. New "hot" threads would need to get caught in some search engine algorithms. Heated debates, discussions about strategy, cheats/bugs, etc. Those are the things people are interested in.

The domain name is another gamble in itself. If it is significantly better then the lower tier names, then it could be worth it. If not, we could pluck a lower-tier one and establish a presence. I've read (skimmed) a few PDFs on SEO's, and what I'm hearing a lot about are having "hot keywords" and consistent activity and longevity.

to 24:
For right now I have zero free time. But, I bet a few of you guys could put your heads together and get something done. I don't play any other PC games besides this one, so my knowledge on the PC gaming world is limited. But, I expect some of these LoL and that one star wars RPG type of guys (TURBAN YOUR CUE) to have at least some working knowledge of how "real" gaming sites work.

[LF]

I mean this in the best possible way because I respect the shit out of you Reaver (As much as you can respect a 2d spaceship pilot i guess) but I honest to god cannot urge you strongly enough to not waste your money on this particular project. You mentioned you were anticipating a 40% backout rate from people who "pledged" to help. I am telling you with 100% certainty based on my last year in TW Staff (Including SMod time) that that number is more likely going to be around an 80-90% backout rate.

The general population in this zone preaches solutions day in and day out but when the time comes to act in order to fix things, everybody is suddenly "too busy". Even the people in this thread that volunteered to help, I didn't count exactly but lets assume 15... I'd be amazed if any more than 2 actually followed through with their promise. Your faith in our community is seriously jaded if you think our group of fully grown trolls and societal rejects deserves $2200 out of your own pocket.

Once again I urge you as strongly as I possibly can to reconsider your stance, I can provide you more specific details via PM if you desire, as some things the public should never see. In short: The ends would not even come close to justifying your means.

[Downfall]

LF, what kind of things have been asked of the community that can be compared to something such as posting on a forum?

If that money tournament was a thought, cancel that because the backout rate will easily be double that of the tourny. All this is, is just going on a thread to post w.e, if anything people might just repeat a topic that they've posted here.

But yeah, idk abt others, but i really don't see myself backing out from something this simple, where there is no real loss to me, but a buncha minutes per day (And I'm sure most people here have their screw-around time where they just surf the net and realize how boring it is)

[Salubrious]

Will your new forum have a private subforum for ages 18+ where we can post rambunctious naked female elves covorting with salicious also-naked-and-female dark elves?

[roxxkatt]

Your faith in our community is seriously jaded if you think our group of fully grown trolls and societal rejects deserves $2200 out of your own pocket.

in case you missed it

[Supreme]

You know if you give me a link where the game (continuum) is explained and you can download it I can easily spam it a round a little. (literally spam links but also make posts on forums and maybe some can do it on reddit and such aswell)

But right now I dont think there is a link like that, right? And dont refer to the download link, you cant send someone to a download link and expect him to download it without knowing what it is.

Basically its free.

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Negative nancy's i.e. LF/24. Supporting Reaver's idea with some time (post on the forum) is way easier than giving out money or invest work. My time is too valuable to waste it on working for free & giving away money isnt my style. But posting around a little in another forum isnt too hard.

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Though scrolling through it im still not entirely sure what you mean to do. Make a forum on a game (in this case diablo), try to get diablo members on it and then get them to check this game out? Isnt that a little far-fetched?

[Turban]

This idea could work and gets my support, but I really doubt we have enough active forum members to make it happen. Nonetheless, if you decide to do this I can try to help you online (in game) to see if we can get more people involved into this project, whether it's periodical zoners or posting it on trenchwars.org website.

Just contact me in game (byakko) if you need some help with zoners and stuff -- that is if you really want to do this. I can't speak for myself, but I'm sure there's several people that would genuinely be willing to help out. I'm just worried about the numbers, that's all.

[Burnt]

You know if you give me a link where the game (continuum) is explained and you can download it I can easily spam it a round a little. (literally spam links but also make posts on forums and maybe some can do it on reddit and such aswell)

http://www.subspace.co/about/
http://www.getcontinuum.com/
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Continu...ram_39389.html

There's three, now get to work

[Supreme]

Yeah but those are hardly perfect though. Give me one where it drops at least 80% of the vain bullshit with blabbering about 1995 (mention it but thats it) and put more emphasize on how to get in the game and how to get started.