Nation-Wars 2010 Plans
In the coming sets 3 new units and 3 new attacks will be released. Missiles, SDI's and Subs are the units and Missiles and Subs have there own attacks. The missiles will have 2 different attacks and the subs will have just 1. The game has needed another sea unit and the subs fit it perfectly..
I am not going to go into detail at this time about what they will destroy in the attacks. I am still working on the missile unit trying to get it separated from the main attack. I would like the missile to be it's own attack only. The subs WILL attack in a SA.. Missiles Won't.
Now as i was thinking of upgrade names for the subs i came up with what i think is a cool idea. We will name the subs after certain HOF members. Like one upgrade would be called the USS Svenneman or the USS Tnova ect ect. I think it would be cool to have units named after certain members who have helped the game in many ways over the years. From time to time as the game upgrades we will change out the names as there will be more HOF members than upgrades..
Now i do have a question that i would like your opinions on. We can leave all attacks as they are and just add in 3 more
OR
We can remove 1 or 2 attacks that nobody uses and replace them with the 3 new ones. Bombing Run (BR) has been a flop and Ground Attack (GR) is also a dead attack. I did have plans to tweak up the GA but i'm not sure it would do any good. So please give me some feedback on what you think we should do.
The 2 Missile attacks will be a reg missile attack and then a Nuclear Missile attack which will require lvl 12 missiles which will be given at random.
SDI's will be the only thing that will defend against a Missile Attack. Regular SAM's will only protect against jets and bombers.
Also please note that this is still in beta stage. NOTHING is final. I'm still working on it and almost have it finished and then we will test it and then implement it in the game. I am only posting this up so you all know what some of my plans are for the coming year.
Also one of my top plans is to get the game on Face Book. It's going to be a huge pain in the butt and take me some time but it is doable and i think it will effectly help our member base. The new units and attacks will happen first as i'm 90% done with that and then i will focus on getting us on FB. Also, this way we have a chance to get use to the new units and attacks before we have to train a lot of other people
So there you have it....... discuss
Also i forgot to mention our status. Currently we are still headed in the right direction. Each set we increase memberships and also our returning rates are still at a all time high. Our budget is still very small and at the moment we have enough money to keep us up and running for 7 more months. I am going to remove one of our advertising spots as it's not worth the money so that will save us some money. There is an emergancy reserve fund that i have been building since the start of last year. That would keep us going a full year if needed.
Our only revenue is premium accounts. I took almost all of the google ads off in the game. I just didn't like them and they didn't really pay out enough so they were not worth the trouble. I lowered the amount of free premiums to the winners from 3 months to 1 month. We just can't kep giving them away as it's costing us greatly. What i would like to do is come up with a new thing for winners and remove free premiums totally. But i have nothing in mind at the moment.
VB has released a new forum and new plan to go along with it. At this time we are not switching over to the new one. I did go ahead and buy the new forum cause the intro price was 200.00 cheaper now then if you waited.. So i used my own money to buy it now (don't tell the First Lady)
and am testing it on a test account to see what's it's like. It is pretty cool and has some good features but the bad part is NONE of our features we have now will work with it (casino, credits, bookie ect ect). There is a new credit system being made for VB4 but i don't know if it will erase all that we have now.
We can keep what we have cause i actually bought this forum outright. The problem is we will never get any updates for it or support for it. One of the good things about the new forums is that once you pay for it then it's lifetime free support and upgrades. We would not have to spend anymore money on upgrades like we do now...
The game has advance nicely over the past year. OUr biggest gains were at the end of the year when all the changes were made. So i am hoping to continue the growth or the community and the game. So please the best thing you can do is use the hell out of the invitation system and also tell all your friends about this game and work hard at getting more and more members.
Thanks and have a great New Year!!!!!!!
Reply With Quote