How did you learn about BattleMaster ?

[Sacha]

Yup, same here. The guy who told me to check out BM quit playing about a year later. That's about 5 years ago now :p

[Solari]

I saw your sig on Slashdot.

This might have been the way I stumbled across it, too.  It was either that or a random listing on Lycos, Angelfire, or some other hopelessly ancient web directory.  It was definitely in late 2003, though.

[DoctorHarte]

Got recruited by friends in Astrum but now I don't see them anymore so instead.. I fight them.

[Zakilevo]

I've recruited two of my friends. But they hated BM lol They like action games :P Can't stand reading. sad.. :(

[MaleMaldives]

I discovered the game by searching through a list of free browser based strategy games. I was trying out ones with interesting descriptions, and most of them were the build a town style. BM stuck out a lot, and is now the only one I still play :D . I have since tried getting a lot of friends to play with two success. One though has stopped after he got busted for having two accounts.

[Iltaran]

If I might offer a theory, I think that part of the reason BM is spread through word of mouth so much is the team nature of the game. It makes a difference in those first few days if you're playing with someone you know.

Was I wrong? :P

You got lucky!  ;)

[Anaris]

I discovered the game by searching through a list of free browser based strategy games. I was trying out ones with interesting descriptions, and most of them were the build a town style. BM stuck out a lot, and is now the only one I still play :D . I have since tried getting a lot of friends to play with two success. One though has stopped after he got busted for having two accounts.

If he's willing to only play one account, he's welcome to come back.

[MaleMaldives]

If he's willing to only play one account, he's welcome to come back.

I tried, but he said he doesn't feel like going through the process of starting from scratch again. Maybe in a year or two if something very interesting happens to BM I could get him again.

[D`Este]

Thanks for participating in the poll to all. It seems that any advertisement money would be wasted, as BM is primarily propagated through word-of-mouth. That's interesting, I thought as much but not quite this dramatically.

Well, you can't expect people to state here that they joined this game because of advertising if you dont advertise. The only conclusion you can draw is that the players we have now our mostly recruited by other players.