-New player info gathering idea-

[Fork]

If up to 250 new players are entering the game each month and over 90% leave, wouldnt it be handy to know why they left?

If possible, if a player is brand new... When they hit esc q, some kind of splash image (or something similar is shown up). It will say something similar to this:

Before you go.... Please help us improve our game. We really value your comments.

-if you are leaving us for good, what is the reason?
(Type and hit enter)

-if your planning on returning press enter to skip.

Make it so this happens only once per new user so they don't get annoyed each time they try and leave the game.

Also (unless its been done before) have a bot to keep asking this question in pub: tw-pub1: To help us improve this game answer this: what would make you play this game more? Type your answer to tw-pub1.

[KrynetiX]

This is a good idea. The way you propose, we can't directly edit the client to do this BUT there's a 9% chance we can make it work anyway by adjusting the Continuum installer. However, if we can think of something more intuitive and less intrusive that would be preferable.

(and by more intuitive and less intrusive I mean something we don't have the hack the installer (with 9% prospected success rate) to achieve)

[Wazzaaa.nl]

why not just let the bot pm newbies who played for a total of 30-60 minutes in their first session,
and ask what they like about the game or got tips to make it better.. etc.

[Fork]

why not just let the bot pm newbies who played for a total of 30-60 minutes in their first session,
and ask what they like about the game or got tips to make it better.. etc.

because I'm guessing a lot of them leave within 5 minutes- at least this way they are forced to either type a comment or to press enter to skip heh. Anyway we could still leave a bot asking the question in pub: what would make you play this game longer? Etc and see what answers you get heh.

[Wazzaaa.nl]

i don't think we want feedback of the people who just stayed here for 5 mins
their reason is prob obv and cant be helped, like too low quality graphics or just don't like the whole asteroids kinda concept
the people who stay longer are a little bit more interested and understand the twgame a little bit better
they got more potential to stay if we know what's bothering them

[Fork]

Well say we collect a 1000 new player comments that left: we could work on the most mentioned problem (apart from graphics). Say if 300 of them said: didn't know what to do, looked boring- then that's what dev staff should prioritise their efforts on. We need new players to stick to this game to kick this game off again and somehow get a pop of 400-700 players at one time. If 100 of them said tower ruined the fun by spamming Wikipedia stats to everyone then staff should fire him str8 away

[Rab]

player logs in, bot checks their usage, and presents them with a poll.

ask various questions at different intervals, depending on what you want to know.

[roxxkatt]

This is a good idea. The way you propose, we can't directly edit the client to do this BUT there's a 9% chance we can make it work anyway by adjusting the Continuum installer. However, if we can think of something more intuitive and less intrusive that would be preferable.

(and by more intuitive and less intrusive I mean something we don't have the hack the installer (with 9% prospected success rate) to achieve)

only way to do this would be to create a launcher that launches the launcher and eavesdrop so u can launch yo launch while u launch a launch