Howdy, it has been quite some time since I have made a suggestions, but this one really came to me.
I've noticed that we are no longer the most popular classicube server anymore (some ZS or something), which is bad in the sense that our community is smaller but good in the sense that there is a larger pool of people to bring in. I am well aware that some of our players overlap with theirs, so I would like to make a few suggestions to improve several things.
First -
Let's be open to newcomers! It's hard in such a high skillcap game like CTF, but we can always try. Because for every 20 noobs that leave after one game, there is a Justbest or Imster or dezdamoonbear waiting to whip our asses. Y'all know that though.
Second -
It would be nice for you ZS players to be positive about CTF and try to get players from other servers to try it out! Maybe they will hate it, maybe they will like it, you never know.
Third -
This is the idea that is outlandish enough to not happen, but also outlandish enough to be a great success like the the first few CTF parties we had. We set a designated time, everyone gets friends they have (whether through other games or IRL), people who don't know CTF and may not even know classic, and have like a Newcomer night. It's a lot easier for new players to learn from older players they know against other new players. That's how most of us learned when the game was still young and there was a much larger pool of players.
The eventual goal is to introduce more people to CTF which could in turn freshen up the scene and metagame(lol) a bit more. I think everyone would concur that more people is almost always merrier on CTF.
The first two ideas I am going to assume you agree with, if you don't please voice your reasons below. I am going to put a poll as to whether or not you think the final idea is worth trying. Keep in mind I will be away most of the summer so I will require YOUR help to make something like this happen.
I've noticed that we are no longer the most popular classicube server anymore (some ZS or something), which is bad in the sense that our community is smaller but good in the sense that there is a larger pool of people to bring in. I am well aware that some of our players overlap with theirs, so I would like to make a few suggestions to improve several things.
First -
Let's be open to newcomers! It's hard in such a high skillcap game like CTF, but we can always try. Because for every 20 noobs that leave after one game, there is a Justbest or Imster or dezdamoonbear waiting to whip our asses. Y'all know that though.
Second -
It would be nice for you ZS players to be positive about CTF and try to get players from other servers to try it out! Maybe they will hate it, maybe they will like it, you never know.
Third -
This is the idea that is outlandish enough to not happen, but also outlandish enough to be a great success like the the first few CTF parties we had. We set a designated time, everyone gets friends they have (whether through other games or IRL), people who don't know CTF and may not even know classic, and have like a Newcomer night. It's a lot easier for new players to learn from older players they know against other new players. That's how most of us learned when the game was still young and there was a much larger pool of players.
The eventual goal is to introduce more people to CTF which could in turn freshen up the scene and metagame(lol) a bit more. I think everyone would concur that more people is almost always merrier on CTF.
The first two ideas I am going to assume you agree with, if you don't please voice your reasons below. I am going to put a poll as to whether or not you think the final idea is worth trying. Keep in mind I will be away most of the summer so I will require YOUR help to make something like this happen.
