Request for feedback from players

[Brooke]

A question for you (including -- perhaps especially -- if you tend not to fly in special events).

I run the "This Day in WWII" series of special events.

We'd love to have more people play in them, but I have a hard time getting more than about 40 people.

Do you have any suggestions on what would increase participation?

"This Day in WWII" events are like this, if you want more info before answering:
http://ahevents.org/events/this-day-in-wwii/602.html?task=view

Thanks in advance for your input.

[phatzo]

Its probably the nature of the "this day" beast. I would participate more but the timing is usually when I have to work, I feel this probably effects other non US players aswell. My suggestion would be to hold off until Saturday arvo to evening (scenarios permitting) and therefore have a larger pool of players that can attend.

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[100Coogn]

That does look quite interesting.  Just never checked it out before.

Coogan

[AWRaid]

A question for you (including -- perhaps especially -- if you tend not to fly in special events).

I run the "This Day in WWII" series of special events.

We'd love to have more people play in them, but I have a hard time getting more than about 40 people.

Do you have any suggestions on what would increase participation?

"This Day in WWII" events are like this, if you want more info before answering:
http://ahevents.org/events/this-day-in-wwii/602.html?task=view

Thanks in advance for your input.

I've been thinking about coming back, I'll join some if I do.

[Shuffler]

I tend to forget they are happening. I'd like to participate... nothing against the idea.... just old and forgetful.

Other than that, I have not participated to a point where i could have input.

[grumpy37]

we have the same problem in the AvA arena and its a daily event  lol   The guys that run it have run some squad night challenges and that seems to get the numbers up.  I dont know if you can increase the frequency of the events or not considering they are based off of specific days?  maybe run them longer than just 2 hours?  You may not get more that 40 at a time at first but more players would get a chance to participate and maybe make it a point to come back the next time.

[tmetal]

judging from shuffler's and 100coogn's posts one the best things you could do is advertise it more. Do the TDIH events have a splash screen message? (like those help messages that pop up when the arena is loading) if not maybe they should. You need some way to advertise these events to the large amount of players who don't log onto the forums, other than the MA system notice that starts to pop up 30 minutes before the event starts.  Because these events are not a weekly thing like FSO or a large drawn out conflict like the scenarios, people might see the advert for this month's TDIH event but will forget about it by the time the day rolls around. (that is what happens for me.)

Good luck with it Brooke. I love these TDIH events when I remember to attend.

[Noir]

I flew the event and liked the concept. What you could do to force players to fly together is to open the fields only once every 10mins, cause now its chaos unleashed  

[doc1kelley]

A question for you (including -- perhaps especially -- if you tend not to fly in special events).

I run the "This Day in WWII" series of special events.

We'd love to have more people play in them, but I have a hard time getting more than about 40 people.

Do you have any suggestions on what would increase participation?

"This Day in WWII" events are like this, if you want more info before answering:
http://ahevents.org/events/this-day-in-wwii/602.html?task=view

Thanks in advance for your input.

I would love to participate in SE and FSO events, but I work a rotating night shift and tons of overtime (which is mandatory). or I would be there!  A lot of us who are still working have fallen into the crevice of covering for our company's lack of sufficient workforce to make more profit scenario.  It's not that the lack of interest but the lack of available time that forbids more participation.  Keep the faith and continue with the EVENTS, someday we may actually be able to participate more as a whole.  My personal thanks for the job you and all other event creators are doing for the community <S>!

All the Best...

   Jay

[Yeager]

Do you have any suggestions on what would increase participation?

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[Molsman]

Brooke
I was wondering if We could try and Accommodate the Players that are not in the US is it possible to run it more then Twice to grab the players who would be interested in flying these Events? I know it may be a pain but I also understand all the different timezones and Alot of player work Strange shifts as mentioned in a previous post including myself, the Past few events I have been lucky and was off but for the others I think it is harder for them.

As far as advertising it besides the Main forum and the Arena announcements I am not sure how else you could go about it to grab more players.

I enjoy them alot and one of the Reasons I still play the game for the different options we have here.

Salute
Crazy8s

[Chilli]

I flew the event and liked the concept. What you could do to force players to fly together is to open the fields only once every 10mins, cause now its chaos unleashed  

I flew the first Coral Sea event, and I have to disagree that there was any negative effect from open fields.  There was already a forced 7 min downtime after two deaths (something like that).  I couldn't imagine waiting 17 mins for an opportunity to play, I would definitely log off and possibly forget about trying it again.  That is one of the things that has driven me from other events.  I don't pay to play and then sit forced to watch my monitor for longer than it takes me to grab some goodies from the ice box.

Brooke,

Most folks, that I know, would try your events just once and be hooked.  The side objectives are very clear.  Whether or not the players are able to organize their team / country is a challenge, not a downfall of the design, with the exception of radar information.

Icon suggestion:  Radar is turned off and so is the sector bar.  This is necessary to conceal the enemy movements, since sides can be switched (enabled to even sides).  This forces everyone to fly right next to the friendly mission or else loose contact and wander about, using a great deal of chatter to report their own position and request position of others (WHAT A PAIN, not to mention this chatter is more informative than dar bar  ).

Increase the friendly Icon range, put it right at the edge of where you would spot their dot even.  Now, watch how a loose gang of rag tag mis fits from Haedes become a well oiled fighting machine.  I will guarantee you EPIC battles, even with small number.  Mostly because they will be better able to maximize their force's resources.  Sure you will have some complaints about it being gamey.  So what, this is a game.  The bottom line should be how much fun, someone has when playing, not how well they overcame obstacles to meet a goal (that is what "work" is for).

[seabat]

Simply a matter of timing for me.

[oakranger]

Could you have it done on friday nights where there is no FSO?

[jedi25]

It all a matter of timing..

As suggested by Oakranger...Friday night when there is no FSO would probably be suitable to most..

I personally don't fly during the week anymore..