Late night tonight knits were roll bases spoiling for a fight and nothing. 11 pm est 93 players and dropping. I was always a firm believer of the " start taking their bases " camp , but from what I see that doesn't do it any more. That's why I believe something has to change to keep people's interest [...]
I found last night to be very eerie on the knight side. Not only just because of having relatively little action here & there... but because of
the silence. Silence on country channel, a lot of silence on range vox even when half a dozen people around going to a hostile base.
And that's what struck me the most in the past four weeks I've been here: The lack of communication. The lack of enthusiasm. Not my personal one, I've been here for 12 years and 'seen it all', so it's all too natural my personal enthusiasm has waned.
No, on a global scale. Public missions stopped a long time ago (and we all know how important these were to get new players hooked!). It's like a bunch of old guys doing 'their stuff' with only greeting an old acquaintance every once in a while. Little 'joining up' beyond the small remnants of what used to be large squads, little chatter on the channels, no fuss about the strategy my country should employ. Once I was gone for 15 minutes with ~30 players on my side. When I came back, I did not find a single new line of text on my country channel.
Now I have been a 'lone wolf' all the time, but once I was an exception. I have the feeling today's arena is full of lone wolves (just look at all those squadless players on the roster), or some very tight small squads/groups of player.
I have the feeling the game is getting
old, literally. How do you hook new players in a lukewarm environment, even when they get their (technical) questions answered on the Help Channel?.
