Why don't more people play this game?

vogue · Post by **vogue** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:19 pm

P1's walls of text are the cancer killing allegiance.

Help.

ryujin · Post by **ryujin** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:20 pm

yea tl:dr.... started reading got bored

Post by **zombywoof** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 8:03 pm

TL/DR: what do people get out of playing this game?

Also stop trying to "revive" the game and instead act like we're "making" a new game.

Archangelus · Post by **Archangelus** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:38 pm

phoenix1 wrote:QUOTE (phoenix1 @ Sep 12 2014, 05:03 PM) TL/DR: what do people get out of playing this game?

Braggin rights, because if you are $#@!in good, you can $#@!in brag that YOU ARE DAMN GOOD!

Elzam_ · Post by **Elzam_** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:40 pm

Archangelus wrote:QUOTE (Archangelus @ Sep 12 2014, 07:38 PM) Braggin rights, because if you are $#@!in good, you can $#@!in brag that YOU ARE DAMN GOOD!

Awwww yeah. Good at a game nobody plays. Dem bragging rights.

carbon · Post by **carbon** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:23 am

There's loads of games out there to get stuck into and that makes getting new players and retaining existing players hard; especially as the game is nearly 15 years old. Most of us have limited 'me' time in front of a computer. It's done very well if you think about it and that is down to this excellent community and the fact that the game itself is epic.

It's so awesome that after wandering about, Allegiance is still here to return to. I will be very sad if one day the servers were completely empty and there was no one to play it with.

<group hug>

Archangelus · Post by **Archangelus** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:32 am

Elzam V. Branstein wrote:QUOTE (Elzam V. Branstein @ Sep 14 2014, 08:40 PM) Awwww yeah. Good at a game nobody plays. Dem bragging rights.

That is incorrect. Very lil ppl plays. What makes it even better. The more players, the less probable that you are actually good it, and just spend your whole time sitting in a fig/int trying to pod ppl.

Shizoku · Post by **Shizoku** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:56 am

Also, lots of old vets coming back. Prime time for decent voobs to try and take them down so say they took down a legend.

Archangelus · Post by **Archangelus** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:45 am

Shizoku wrote:QUOTE (Shizoku @ Sep 14 2014, 09:56 PM) Also, lots of old vets coming back. Prime time for decent voobs to try and take them down so say they took down a legend.

I believe that mostly only apply to Pook.

Although it does look rewarding podding culm and not giving him a miner kill

Elzam_ · Post by **Elzam_** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:43 pm

Archangelus wrote:QUOTE (Archangelus @ Sep 14 2014, 07:32 PM) That is incorrect. Very lil ppl plays. What makes it even better. The more players, the less probable that you are actually good it, and just spend your whole time sitting in a fig/int trying to pod ppl.

This.... just isn't true. Assume the skill range of players remains and you're the best in the game. Is it more impressive to say that you're better than the 200 other people that play? Or the 2000 other people that play? The "skill distribution" remains constant, but the number of people in each percentile changes, so to be in the top 10% goes from being in the top 20 to the top 200, which makes higher percentiles much more impressive.