Saving Era

Its sad seeing the player count to drop down to 800-900 players. Thats very sad considering what it used to be. This game is slowly dying due to few new players. Even the era go forums are dying. As players we should take initiative and try and advertise and find ways to expand this game to save it. The staff should also be focusing on implementing ways to make this game better for nee players, which I️ know isn’t easy to do. I️ liked seeing how unixmad showed interest in saving graal by making the video/advertisement contest. Anyways we should all start finding ways to improve this games player base or work on ideas that staff could do to make this game more enjoyable for new players. I️ do think lack of advertisement is the main issue, also the games pictures don’t look very appealing in the AppStore. Lets save Graal.

It should be considered to create an advertisement team for era to make a difference.

Unixmad won't give his bread for this game

The amount of players went down because everybody (main players) are back in school. The middle of the night is deserted, as is early morning to mid day.

The middle of the night (from America), means people from the west coast of NA to Europe is asleep. From parts of Europe to Asia, they're all in school. So basically a large chunk of the entire playerbase is sleeping or in school. With early and mid day, it's similar because all the people in America to Europe are in school and parts of Asia are asleep by that point.

Although I do know staff are doing a lot to try and please the players. I think considering the original and main base of players is now gone, since it's been such a long time for them, that takes out some population, on top of seasonal influences.

I do understand the general trend of population is going down of course though, which is inevitable with time with any online game.

Still, there should be some type of staff team dedicated to advertisement, this game wont die if we can find a way to grow the player base

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Originally Posted by S and M

Still, there should be some type of staff team dedicated to advertisement, this game wont die if we can find a way to grow the player base

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Every thing dies at one point in time.

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Originally Posted by Tricky

Every thing dies at one point in time.

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Im saying this game wont die as of now.

generally speaking the population has been on a steep decline, regardless of the fact that large portions of the playerbase have begun to head back to school. Even when this was the case 2-3 years ago, the player-base maintained a solid number of about 2.5-3k people online at one time. While there are many factors that can attribute to player count numbers dropping the most obvious of them would be the departure of a lot of the original players that played this game. On top of the fiasco we've been having in terms of content and player dissatisfaction, as well as the negative wrap that the staff team has gotten over the course of two years it is no surprise to see the game slowly die off.

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Originally Posted by Tricky

Every thing dies at one point in time.

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While this is generally true, successful games can continue to last and grow for a long time, WoW is a perfect example of this as the player base has only gotten bigger with almost 6 million daily users.

No its not aa matter of school. On weekday afternoons in the past there would be 1.6-1.8k players minimally online, but nowadays it just numbers slightly over a thousand, sometimes even fewer.

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Originally Posted by LYK08

No its not aa matter of school. On weekday afternoons in the past there would be 1.6-1.8k players minimally online, but nowadays it just numbers slightly over a thousand, sometimes even fewer.

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Yes sir it is true sir. I want to save this game if there is no players anymoret o played this game.....

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Originally Posted by Tasim

While this is generally true, successful games can continue to last and grow for a long time, WoW is a perfect example of this as the player base has only gotten bigger with almost 6 million daily users

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I already know that. This ain't a big game.

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Originally Posted by Tricky

I already know that. This ain't a big game.

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So lets try and expand the player base, instead of just saying yea this is a small game it will die soon anyway. Because it wont if we work on advertisement and working kn building the player base as a community.

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Originally Posted by S and M

So lets try and expand the player base, instead of just saying yea this is a small game it will die soon anyway. Because it wont if we work on advertisement and working kn building the player base as a community.

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That's kind of hard considering this is one server, that hasn't been updated in a looooong time. Would make things so much easier if there were several servers and such, less lag, less clusters of people, less spam, and so much more.

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Originally Posted by Tricky

That's kind of hard considering this is one server, that hasn't been updated in a looooong time. Would make things so much easier if there were several servers and such, less lag, less clusters of people, less spam, and so much more.

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Player base expands>more money being made for unixmad>able to upgrade servers

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Originally Posted by S and M

Player base expands>more money being made for unixmad>able to upgrade servers

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He already has more than enough lol, he could update it any moment but NAH.

As of now its still playable, if the player base was larger it would be more of a concern to unixmad

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Originally Posted by S and M

As of now its still playable, if the player base was larger it would be more of a concern to unixmad

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I guess for him it's that he has to see exponential growth in order to see whether he's going to commit to it, which would explain the video contest.

That's just my guess-just connecting dots here.

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Originally Posted by BL1NK

I guess for him it's that he has to see exponential growth in order to see whether he's going to commit to it, which would explain the video contest.

That's just my guess-just connecting dots here.

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Exactly.

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Originally Posted by S and M

Exactly.

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I really hope that's the case, Era has so much potential if the right steps are made to take care of it.



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Originally Posted by BL1NK

I really hope that's the case, Era has so much potential if the right steps are made to take care of it.

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Everybody knows what to do but, we don't have the authority to make decisions.
Feedbacks are only towards the game and not BTS improvements.

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Originally Posted by XSTARX

Everybody knows what to do but, we don't have the authority to make decisions.
Feedbacks are only towards the game and not BTS improvements.

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exactly, since this game is runned by volunteers, they dont have powers to make big changes. big changes is like for e.g make the servers great again and invest more money for a long term decision. however the volunteers(admins) cant do this, they can only do small updates just like plasma recently but they cant improve the quality of the game and do big changes, those small updates can entertain some people but if the servers are not great, its not fun. so the owner of the game must take important decisions before its too late.

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Originally Posted by XSTARX

Everybody knows what to do but, we don't have the authority to make decisions.
Feedbacks are only towards the game and not BTS improvements.

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Us as players can create an advertisement campaign , which could spark unixmad to do more.

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Originally Posted by S and M

Us as players can create an advertisement campaign , which could spark unixmad to do more.

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Tbh, I highly doubt that.

to be completely honest this game is pretty much in the gutter right now, not to mention the fact staff are overloaded with so many projects and so little manpower to implement them. On top of that the "support" system is a complete joke run by the same people that jail you so even if you do send an appeal you are basically going to get shut down anyway since the staff that jailed you are most likely reading your ticket and therefore biased towards your case. Because lets be honest staff are people too and to say that their impressions or personal opinions of you do not affect their judgement is a complete joke. There are instances where I've personally sent several tickets throughout a week and got 0 responses or a short curt answer after waiting days and days on end. The system is almost never on your side and never will be. Lets not also mention the fact that the TOS related to Graal are also a complete joke and aren't even legally enforceable, so are therefore nonbinding.

While I appreciate all the new aesthetics and weapons that were put into the game recently, it would be even nicer if there were a collective effort to focus on one big project so that us players have even less to complain about, shifting the blame or making the excuse that you don't run a certain project are not ways to make the player base appreciate you more. And being volunteers is also literally no excuse since you are being paid with in-game currency and items which are usually in amounts that you would see in gralat packs. Even as a volunteer it's important to keep in mind that you are still running a game with actual paying customers, so you should really think about how you would want to be treated in that situation.

Getting paid in game(volunteers) have literaly NO impact on staff powers, they do not have enough powers, even the higher admins, to make big changes to improve the gameplay quality. Again,
This belongs to the owner choice’s.

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Originally Posted by Tasim

to be completely honest this game is pretty much in the gutter right now, not to mention the fact staff are overloaded with so many projects and so little manpower to implement them. On top of that the "support" system is a complete joke run by the same people that jail you so even if you do send an appeal you are basically going to get shut down anyway since the staff that jailed you are most likely reading your ticket and therefore biased towards your case. Because lets be honest staff are people too and to say that their impressions or personal opinions of you do not affect their judgement is a complete joke. There are instances where I've personally sent several tickets throughout a week and got 0 responses or a short curt answer after waiting days and days on end. The system is almost never on your side and never will be. Lets not also mention the fact that the TOS related to Graal are also a complete joke and aren't even legally enforceable, so are therefore nonbinding.

While I appreciate all the new aesthetics and weapons that were put into the game recently, it would be even nicer if there were a collective effort to focus on one big project so that us players have even less to complain about, shifting the blame or making the excuse that you don't run a certain project are not ways to make the player base appreciate you more. And being volunteers is also literally no excuse since you are being paid with in-game currency and items which are usually in amounts that you would see in gralat packs. Even as a volunteer it's important to keep in mind that you are still running a game with actual paying customers, so you should really think about how you would want to be treated in that situation.

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Originally Posted by Tasim

to be completely honest this game is pretty much in the gutter right now, not to mention the fact staff are overloaded with so many projects and so little manpower to implement them. On top of that the "support" system is a complete joke run by the same people that jail you so even if you do send an appeal you are basically going to get shut down anyway since the staff that jailed you are most likely reading your ticket and therefore biased towards your case. Because lets be honest staff are people too and to say that their impressions or personal opinions of you do not affect their judgement is a complete joke. There are instances where I've personally sent several tickets throughout a week and got 0 responses or a short curt answer after waiting days and days on end. The system is almost never on your side and never will be. Lets not also mention the fact that the TOS related to Graal are also a complete joke and aren't even legally enforceable, so are therefore nonbinding.

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The part about the people jailing you are the ones reading your ticket, i can say thats not true. Most warns / Jails come from PRs and 0 PRs do the tickets.

Sometimes I see it drop to 500 but that's as low it gets.

If you went onto Ol'West you wouldn't be suprised. All you would see is tumble weeds.