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Mr President
10-24-2007, 13:37
Bottom line is this... WE NEED MORE MEMBERS!

I know many of you do not like the game, but it's better than nothing. And
the Dev Group has been working VERY hard at making it better. These things
take time. Each time there is a change, it needs to be tested and tried
before they can move on to the next. Yes this is a slower process, but
in the end it's more efficient.

The forums now have the arcade.. Which seems to help make things a little
more interesting and fun. But we need more people. Even if they don't like
the game, it still helps if they visit the forums and chat.

So i'm asking you all for some ideas. What would make you guys want to
advertise this game/forum more? I know you all have a ton of friends who
you talk to all the time and who play online games.. What would it take to
get them on here?

I'm open for any suggestions. Even if you think i'll say no, still mention
them cause you never know what i'll say lol..

I know many of you are waiting for WoW.. I don't know when it's coming.
I was hoping it would be here by now, but it's not. But still, even if we had
WoW, we still need more members.. So why not get them in here now, so
they are already here for when it does come. And with a lot of the changes
i see being discussed and tried, Nation Wars might turn out to be a pretty
decent game..

So please, lets start talking about how we can get more members. What
incentives do we need to offer a new person, and the one who gets them
here..

Hoebawt
10-24-2007, 13:53
I think voting should be allowed in game... and rewarded wit extra turns..... that way we can start moving up on the list of the top games and that will attract some members..... We def need to Set up a Group For Advertisement to put us out there..... Maybe we can put our Link on other games... and let them do the same wit us.....

pcgluva
10-24-2007, 14:09
let me know what you want ill start making advertisment banners and such

pcgluva
10-24-2007, 14:10
http://www.nukezone.nu/advertising.asp

Mr President
10-24-2007, 14:23
We could always put it in our email sig too.. I know we send lots
of those out each day.

Hoebawt
10-24-2007, 14:28
Put a ad on NukeZone Ads isnt a bad idea..... Can we afford it?

pcgluva
10-24-2007, 14:38
there has to be some money left from prems and if not tell us what u need and we can donate

pcgluva
10-24-2007, 14:39
and like i said i could make it or have someone i know make a nice one up

Hoebawt
10-24-2007, 14:47
Sean start mkin Ads..... and yea Mr p do we have enough?

Mr President
10-24-2007, 14:48
There is money left from Premiums, but that is what i will use to help pay
for the server for the year.. We don't make a lot on Premiums cause we
didn't have a lot to offer :-( and with the small amount of members we
have, the adsense doesn't make a lot either.. Which is why we need more
members lol..

NZ wants 45.00 per month. That is out of budget for us unless i just dip
in my own pocket and pay it.. They do get a ton of views though.. We
would need one heck of a banner to catch peoples attention and get them
to click on it.

Not sure yet what we will do about this, but it is a good idea.

ranger2112
10-24-2007, 15:02
45 a month. could be done with more paying members. i honestly believe the game should be tweeked a little more first. we should be able to present a stronger setup with viable strats first. But hey,I like the way you guys are thinking and really like the progression so far.

Mr President
10-24-2007, 15:09
Yes the game needs to be tweaked some, but we need more members visiting
this forum and or the game. Not only will it help out with expenses, it will
also give more points of views. Right now we are tweaking a game off of
our main core members. Not everyone has the same ideas as we do.. :D


We also make money from the ads in the game/forum. We make some per
page views and also when people click on the links. More members = more
page views= more money to cover costs and allow us more advertising.

We are not allowed to encourage in any way that members click on the
ads. It's part of the agreement when i signed up. Also, we are not allowed
to have the ads if inappropriate stuff is present.. ie porno stuff ect ect..
This is one of the reasons we are so strict on it. We don't want to lose
the adsense acct.

ranger2112
10-24-2007, 15:10
ahhhh. ok , makes sense. coolio.

Hoebawt
10-24-2007, 15:11
yea before we advertise we should atleast have pure strats... but in the mean time i think Sean should work on banners...

and we should all see if we can donate anything... for the banners.....

Mr P its 45bucks to start

Mr President
10-24-2007, 15:20
45.00 per month.. It's pretty steep, but if it pays off then we would be golden. It's a risk though.. If we did it we would have to do the first month
and then see if it pays off..

Also, everyone has people on there MSN. people who use to play WoW and
who doesn't play NW.. We need to try and get them to come here. Anyway
possible. Even if they don't play NW, it would help if they came on here..
plus it would be nice to have them in our chats again too..

Crimson Shadow
10-24-2007, 16:34
This is a sig that I use on gamespot forums. It lists my stats and skills from a game I use to play awhile ago...and still play occasionally.

If we had something like this it might attract the eye of some people and bring them here. Maybe we could put in state name/nation nation/rank/NW/etc. Might be a little hard to code but idk.

EDIT: I'm always on gamespot, so I had a sig to use we could probably get a couple hundred hits.

http://www.rsbandb.com/sigs/sig4/luthien155.png (http://www.rsbandb.com/runescape_skill_signatures-sig)

ranger2112
10-24-2007, 16:51
if i were actually a "gamer" and played other spots that would work. but I dont.

Crimson Shadow
10-24-2007, 17:04
You dont....but I do...and I know there is probably 50,000+ active users on Gamespot forums each day.

Hoebawt
10-24-2007, 17:13
45.00 per month.. It's pretty steep, but if it pays off then we would be golden. It's a risk though.. If we did it we would have to do the first month
and then see if it pays off..

Also, everyone has people on there MSN. people who use to play WoW and
who doesn't play NW.. We need to try and get them to come here. Anyway
possible. Even if they don't play NW, it would help if they came on here..
plus it would be nice to have them in our chats again too..


Yes i agree it is steep but if it woudl bring more memebrs then we shoudl try... i think we shoudl raise funds for 3 months of advertisment.. and see how that does.......

Mr President
10-24-2007, 19:11
135.00 is a lot of money to ask this small of a community to donate. It's
not impossible, but i think it might be to much to ask..

I think 2 months would give us enough info.

If we could raise the cost for the second month, i will pay for the first month
by myself.

But we need one kick @ss banner to display for the ad.. something that will
catch people's attention and make them want to check it out.

Mr President
10-24-2007, 19:15
maybe we can do a donate for credit thing.. Depending on how much they
can donate they can get a certain amount of credits..

i'll have to work that out so they can get there money's worth.. If we do
it of course lol..

Missionary
10-24-2007, 19:41
ok, the game is quite slow at the moment to be honest. the arcade is alot more popular at the moment it would seem.

i surgest making a differnt section on the forum called voting. because i cant even remember there the thread is posted to vote. list the sites you want people to vote in there and offer credits for there vote, if you are able to do this.

also i can pay for a months worth of advertising if need be Mr.P. if sean comes up with a really really REALLY freaking awesome advertising thing then it should be no problem.

also, the only other game i play is torncity. now they are huge and recently just hit 25,000 members signing in within 24 hours. if someone could get me and advertising banned or what ever to fit in my sig there ill start being really active in the forums there and should get quite alot of hits i would have though.

Hoebawt
10-24-2007, 21:09
Ill see wat i can do to donate.... maybe a month maybe two... but Mr P wit u and Vinny donatin one month each 3 seems very possible :)

pcgluva
10-24-2007, 22:27
whats size do you want it to be?

pcgluva
10-24-2007, 22:48
i have put in 2 request to a friend about banners because he is way better with animation

Mahdi
10-25-2007, 00:03
yeah I will talk To Mak over at 2452 and see what i can do about getting us some advertisement there...

Mr. P you could probably talk to Professor at Skylords.com to see about replacing the World Of War ad that is there with a Nation Wars ad... who knows we might be able to get some free advertisement by just asking

Hoebawt
10-25-2007, 00:29
Yea Free is def good.. but i think the ads in nukezone should still be looked at

Mahdi
10-25-2007, 09:48
no doubt about it they should be looked at and invested in as they have many players... what i am suggesting tho is smaller games with like 1- 7k players that are wanting free advertising links maybe we should hook up with them

ranger2112
10-25-2007, 10:11
i think this was mentioned before...If we could just get all the old WOW guys back and make a state and use a couple of turns..you know to give the illusion of playing, then when some new person comes in and sees over onehundred active states, they will have a better chance of joining than thirty active states.

MAGGIO
10-25-2007, 10:44
Maybe we should get an update on the Code from svenne before we try to get more people to play a game most dont like?

Mr President
10-25-2007, 11:17
BB Spoke with Svenne yesterday. He said he is so tied down with School
right now, that the code is going to have to wait a tad bit longer. He has
not forgotten, just really being hammered by school at the moment..

Not what we all wanted to here, but at least now we know it will be a bit
longer. We have to move forward as if WoW is never coming.. So let's work
with what we have and then when WoW is here, we will be in a better place.

So far we have some good suggestions.. Keep em coming..

I like Crimsons suggestion. If anyone else plays other games or belongs to
other forums, putting a nation wars banner in your sig would help too..

Missionary
10-25-2007, 20:29
what does he really have to do to release a code ffs? it seems to be asif hes leading us on. i dunno about the legal requirements but he seems to be taking the piss.

k959
10-25-2007, 23:57
i dont know about u but at times i am so busy with school work and work that i dont have time to do anything else... it all depends on classes, and how many hours u put in at work... right now im working 2 jobs and going to school but as of sunday my work load will be cut in almost half

so i can see how he is putting school first seeing as if i remember right hes in collage and if he is pay for it like i am then he will put that ahead of releasing the wow code to us

Mr President
10-26-2007, 11:09
what does he really have to do to release a code ffs? it seems to be asif hes leading us on. i dunno about the legal requirements but he seems to be taking the piss.

There is legal requirements that he has to tie up with the est people
BEFORE he can do anything. I'm not sure if he is 100% done with that
or not. All he said to BB was that he was very very busy with school
and put WoW on the back burner. Which i can understand. Getting his
education is more important than getting people a free game. lol

Waiting sucks, but in the end it will all be worth it.. Besides, we have a
lot of work to do before we get it.. We need more people. right now we
only have like 43 active members.. not much at all..


i dont know about u but at times i am so busy with school work and work that i dont have time to do anything else... it all depends on classes, and how many hours u put in at work... right now im working 2 jobs and going to school but as of sunday my work load will be cut in almost half

so i can see how he is putting school first seeing as if i remember right hes in collage and if he is pay for it like i am then he will put that ahead of releasing the wow code to us

Very true

ranger2112
10-26-2007, 12:13
dunno, but we just keep improving NW and when we do get the codes we will have TWO uber games to play. i have said this again and i will say it again. i come here and play but i stay because of the community. the bs-ing with you guys and feeling part of something. some of you need to get priorities straight...we are here for each other and not JUST the game. there are tons of games out there and most of you play them, this group of people here are my extended family and i would come to these forums and post and have fun WITHOUT any game here.

pcgluva
10-26-2007, 16:01
i agree im on the forums wat more then the game and for good reason

Crimson Shadow
10-26-2007, 16:24
Waiting sucks, but in the end it will all be worth it.. Besides, we have a
lot of work to do before we get it.. We need more people. right now we
only have like 43 active members.. not much at all..

Yes, we only have 43 active members....but that should easily jump to 100-150 once the code comes out and all the old vets come back.



But I do agree that we need to draw in as many people as possible

ooga booga
10-26-2007, 16:53
dunno, but we just keep improving NW and when we do get the codes we will have TWO uber games to play. i have said this again and i will say it again. i come here and play but i stay because of the community. the bs-ing with you guys and feeling part of something. some of you need to get priorities straight...we are here for each other and not JUST the game. there are tons of games out there and most of you play them, this group of people here are my extended family and i would come to these forums and post and have fun WITHOUT any game here.

I knew you loved me... it just took you this long to say it. :D I do miss not having the game, but ranger is right in the fact that we all come here cause we like each other and mainly cause I'm uber cool to talk to. :cool:

Hoebawt
10-26-2007, 17:09
Yea We are here coz of each other... NW isnt much of a game but wit time it will be... and it will be our game.... we just need to work together to improve it

Mr President
10-26-2007, 21:24
When WoW comes back i doubt NW will be up and running anymore..

Server costs are expensive and we want to save as much room as we
can. Will all depend on how many people come and play WoW. I'm sure
we will make some changes to WoW too, and i'm sure Warlord won't have
time to keep up with changes for both games.. So NW might be put on
the shelf..

These forums are what take up the most space. Simple thing to do is
delete old threads no longer used, but then people will lose post counts..
Not sure if there is a way or a hack that can be used to make it so that
doesn't happen.. We'll see how things pan out later on down the road.

pcgluva
10-26-2007, 21:39
ill start looking for more hacks to get more features here also see what we can do to improve the fun on here

Satan666
10-27-2007, 03:58
When WoW comes back i doubt NW will be up and running anymore..

Thats Sad, though makes me feel better about never playing.

Missionary
10-29-2007, 06:12
Which i can understand. Getting his
education is more important than getting people a free game. lol

some people have there priorities all screwed up :P

pcgluva
10-29-2007, 06:54
vin has no education so its ok