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BattleMaster => BM General Discussion => Topic started by: Tom on March 17, 2011, 08:13:03 AM
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Interested in this because I'd like to know which channels to use when we want to expand the playerbase again.
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Interested in this because I'd like to know which channels to use when we want to expand the playerbase again.
By "again," I hope you mean "now" ;D
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I chose "word of mouth" to define my brother dragging me to the computer and standing over me whilst I made my first two characters. The only one he really cared about was the character I was starting on the War Island (Go Taselak!)
Incidentally, my brother came to the game through a friend of his, and I brought my daughter along a bit later.
Friends don't let friends not try the game!
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One of my brothers got me and one of my other brothers to start playing.
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I can barely remember when I first started playing BM. I wasn't very fluent in English and randomly joined this game. Played for a couple months then stopped b/c I did not understand anything people were telling me lol. After 2 years I came back to play and I actually enjoyed it :) but got into another game. Now I am back. :) What a great game.
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Found it on one of the browser game directory's that I frequent.
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By "again," I hope you mean "now" ;D
Yep, though obviously we have many priorities, so "again" meaning another time when we devote lots of effort and time into attracting new players.
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Interested in this because I'd like to know which channels to use when we want to expand the playerbase again.
I saw your sig on Slashdot.
"Back in beta (too many new features): BattleMaster"
The lure of something in beta with loads of new features was extremely compelling :-)
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From a recruitment posting in another game to essentially come be a pawn of an OOC clan here >.<
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Interested in this because I'd like to know which channels to use when we want to expand the playerbase again.
My friend kept talking about this game he was playing with knights and lords and realms and politics, and made me try it out. ;)
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Early in my first month in college I decided to search for "Free Online Multiplayer Games". I got to some site I don't remember anymore save that it had some blue on the side and a picture of a troll or something.
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I was playing Legend Arena (http://www.legendarena.com) and a member of my clan posted a topic on a forum about a new game he'd been playing which he thought was 'worth checking out'. That was about six years ago now. Never went back to Legend Arena :P
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That's a very long time ago, but I must have been looking for unique multiplayer browser games via Google and somehow ended up at the best game there is ;)
You could also perhaps ask new players how they found Battlemaster at the sign-up?
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I can hardly remember, but I believe it started with a google search and ended with a good description on a gaming website...
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My own "enlightenment" came about by reading a book from the library about how to use comps, (due to buying one on a whim without ever using one before) as there was a list of browser based games in a chapter on learning to use the web, and hey presto this was the one I luckily chose to try first ;D
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My own "enlightenment" came about by reading a book from the library about how to use comps, (due to buying one on a whim without ever using one before) as there was a list of browser based games in a chapter on learning to use the web, and hey presto this was the one I luckily chose to try first ;D
You mean BattleMaster is in a printed book somewhere? Now that is cool. You don't by chance remember the book?
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Word of mouth. Uceek.
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I saw your sig on Slashdot.
"Back in beta (too many new features): BattleMaster"
The lure of something in beta with loads of new features was extremely compelling :-)
You know, I think that's the same thing I did! I'm going to go update my sig.
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You mean BattleMaster is in a printed book somewhere? Now that is cool. You don't by chance remember the book?
Although I can't remember it's title I do know the author had already written quite a few books on comps, as was something of a specialist on the subject.
I might be able find out tomorrow though, as travelling into town so can check it out at the library.
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I started going out with this guy who insisted on bringing his laptop to my house just so he could check this game multiple times throughout the day. Eventually he persauded me to join and now I refresh BM more than he ever does ;)
His brother got him into it but I'm not sure how his brother found out about it.
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A friend of mine in high school was talking about all the fun he was having with it so I decided to check it out myself. I have no clue how he found it though.
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A friend of mine convinced me to try it. I was lukewarm about it at first, but grew to love it.
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Although I can't remember it's title I do know the author had already written quite a few books on comps, as was something of a specialist on the subject.
I might be able find out tomorrow though, as travelling into town so can check it out at the library.
That would be very cool. Wouldn't that meet Wikipedia's notability requirements?
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That would be very cool. Wouldn't that meet Wikipedia's notability requirements?
Not if it's a book the deletionist Wiki-admin has never heard of.
Or he decides there need to be three more references before it can be accepted.
Or...well, he doesn't like the article and just wants it deleted.
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That would be very cool. Wouldn't that meet Wikipedia's notability requirements?
No. The inofficial notability requirement is "I, the almight admin in charge today, feel like allowing this unworthy entry into my precious site".
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Word of mouth. Uceek.
And then he decided I'd like it and bugged me to join until I did.
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Joined a bunch of friends playing in Astrum. Then went crazy and got kicked out nor do I see any of those people aymore. In fatc, we're at war now:D
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Yep.. Something big is finally happening in that peaceful continent. About time.
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If I remember correctly I was googling for browser, turn based strategy games. Dont remember if i found it in google list or some site that has a collection of games.
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And then he decided I'd like it and bugged me to join until I did.
Was I wrong? :P
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No sign of that book in the library today so hoping it's simply presently out on loan rather then been withdrawn.
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I have no idea. I guess it would have to be a search engine result of some sort, since in the eight and a half years I've been playing I don't think I've ever met another BM player IRL. My guess would be that I searched for 'browser RPG', since I'm a role-player and not a board gamer at heart.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no 'computer' game I've ever played as long as BM. I played WoW for about three or four years, I guess, and Counterstrike for at least a couple. But nothing comes close to BM at eight and a half years without a break. That's a fantastic acheivement, Tom, and you have every right to be really proud of your game.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no 'computer' game I've ever played as long as BM. I played WoW for about three or four years, I guess, and Counterstrike for at least a couple. But nothing comes close to BM at eight and a half years without a break. That's a fantastic acheivement, Tom, and you have every right to be really proud of your game.
This.
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I was searching for a middle ages set game on a directory site, a few looked promising.... but the promise of changing the course of the world.... Only BM offers it, and it drew me in. Now, I'm working on that very thing in EC...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no 'computer' game I've ever played as long as BM. I played WoW for about three or four years, I guess, and Counterstrike for at least a couple. But nothing comes close to BM at eight and a half years without a break. That's a fantastic acheivement, Tom, and you have every right to be really proud of your game.
Well, I've been playing Age of Empires for 13 years and Age of Kings for 10, but nowhere near as intensively as BM... coming up on 6 years in a month and a half, and I think I maybe missed 14 days or so in total where I didn't at least log in to check my news. At the very most.
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There is a whole thread devoted to it on successionwars.com.
Which is a game currently being developed by a person in the diplomatic office for the US in Ukraine, by the way. It is based on the Battletech universe and from what I've seen so far it will be a blast.
Tom, you should check it out. The amount of work he has put into this game reminds me of how much effort you have put into battlemaster.
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my god this successionwars.com is so confusing. Is it still in beta?
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No sign of that book in the library today so hoping it's simply presently out on loan rather then been withdrawn.
Maybe it wasn't notable enough and got deleted. *scnr*
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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.
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I saw your sig on Slashdot.
"Back in beta (too many new features): BattleMaster"
The lure of something in beta with loads of new features was extremely compelling :-)
I saw the same sig. I checked it out (I was looking for some non-life-invading browser game at the time) and I also saw that it was made by the same guy who made that site about DeCSS, so it was probably worth checking out.
I think I remember showing lemuria.org to friends to show them the DeCSS haiku, but I can't find them there anymore. Maybe I'm just confused.
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my god this successionwars.com is so confusing. Is it still in beta?
He hasn't even released the Beta. He should release it sometime in 2011.
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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.
I'm not sure that follows, Tom.
Thus far, BattleMaster just hasn't been advertised much. The only places (as far as I know) people could find out about it have been a Google search that turns up the site itself, the now-deleted Wikipedia article, your Slashdot sig, and word of mouth.
If we made a concerted effort to get BattleMaster included in various lists of browser games (and maybe found that book, so we could at least try to get the Wikipedia article put back up!), I think we could make a big difference in its exposure net-wide.
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I have no idea. I guess it would have to be a search engine result of some sort, since in the eight and a half years I've been playing I don't think I've ever met another BM player IRL. My guess would be that I searched for 'browser RPG', since I'm a role-player and not a board gamer at heart.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no 'computer' game I've ever played as long as BM. I played WoW for about three or four years, I guess, and Counterstrike for at least a couple. But nothing comes close to BM at eight and a half years without a break. That's a fantastic acheivement, Tom, and you have every right to be really proud of your game.
The only reason I quit back in 08 was because battlemaster was so addictive that it was ruining my life at the time of my postgrad.
Actually I'm still on the same course... and playing battlemaster again... I can't keep away :-\
And yeah, I heard about BM by word of mouth also, but my friend found it through google if that helps.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no 'computer' game I've ever played as long as BM. I played WoW for about three or four years, I guess, and Counterstrike for at least a couple. But nothing comes close to BM at eight and a half years without a break. That's a fantastic acheivement, Tom, and you have every right to be really proud of your game.
That's more or less the same for me.
I should actually ask the friend of mine that proposed the game to me where did he found that, but I would say in a search engine when we were short of browsergames to play together (I went for word of mouth). At first I was very skeptical (and someone might get that from the not-very-serious name of my chars) but then, well, he quitted and I'm here on the forum. woah
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I should actually ask the friend of mine that proposed the game to me where did he found that, but I would say in a search engine when we were short of browsergames to play together (I went for word of mouth). At first I was very skeptical (and someone might get that from the not-very-serious name of my chars) but then, well, he quitted and I'm here on the forum. woah
Isn't it odd how sometimes the person that recommends the game falls by the wayside, while the one who was introduced to it sticks by it? Same thing with me :)
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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
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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.
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Got recruited by friends in Astrum but now I don't see them anymore so instead.. I fight them.
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I've recruited two of my friends. But they hated BM lol They like action games :P Can't stand reading. sad.. :(
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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.
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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! ;)
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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.
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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.
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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.