How well is the community growing?

Youngmoose · Post by **Youngmoose** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:40 am

Is the number of acitive players increasing? It seems like we are getting a few old vets back, and a fair numbers of newbies seem to be playing at any give time. How well are we recruiting, and more important, how well are we retaining?

Post by **TheBored** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:07 am

Up until this past week, I was recording copies of the leaderboard and squad list. That kinda stopped since I forgot to copy the script over to my laptop. If someone pokes me when I get back to my desktop (this coming Monday) I'll be sure to pull the stats from the pages. I think it covers the past 3 or 4 months... w/e.

Speaking in general though:

Long term - we have grown quite a bit. Gone are the days of 15 people on during primetime.
Short term - we are holding steady.

TB

Kltplzyxm · Post by **Kltplzyxm** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:12 am

I've also been peeking at the rosters lately. I think we kinda peaked during the tournament finals with our vets. I think once the tourney over and with summer vacation over with school kicking in, a number of them are taking time off so you see the rosters shrink a little bit. However, some of the smaller squads numbers have been growing as well.

I would think by the time another tournament kicked in next year, we'll have more players than we did last year so long as there's no big drop off in players.

Lykourgos · Post by **Lykourgos** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:55 am

We're certainly growing, but our retension is traditionally horrible. I'm pretty sure that less than 1% of people who try the game play it for more than a week.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:19 am

I've been seeing lot's of (0)...(2) players around the servers. I try to take the moment to give them some encouraging comment, or advice when they are on the main server and seem confused.

It seemed like the R4 release dropped active player numbers by 20%, but it's been climbing back (from 1000 to 800, now back to 900+ again).

Kltplzyxm · Post by **Kltplzyxm** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:26 am

Lykourgos wrote:QUOTE (Lykourgos @ Nov 20 2007, 11:55 PM) We're certainly growing, but our retension is traditionally horrible. I'm pretty sure that less than 1% of people who try the game play it for more than a week.

2 steps forward, 1 step back. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:31 am

It is funny how the perspective changes:
nowadays, upon entering the lobby:
"Only 30 players online, weird."
A few years back:
"Wow, 30 players!"

Bull · Post by **Bull** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:51 am

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" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> I can remember a time or few that there was noone on. NADA! I sure hope those days are gone.

Bull

Puggle · Post by **Puggle** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:15 pm

Bull wrote:QUOTE (Bull @ Nov 21 2007, 03:51 AM) /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> I can remember a time or few that there was noone on. NADA! I sure hope those days are gone.
Bull

I like to compare allegiance to another, similar free online teamplay oriented game that I played and loved for 5+ years. The leadership of that game held on to the code, made no development and alienated and actively purged its community (including amongst others, my squad that was the 'XT' of the game) into oblivion whereby there are regularly 0 players on, and 'Primetime' means a max of 10-15 players.

In stark contrast the leadership of Allegiance has done the right things to grow this community and this game. I'm a relative noob here, but in my 18 months or so I have noticed a big rise in new players.

Retention is always going to be a problem with such a complicated game. Don't forget that the modern video gaming experience is for short bursts of relatively simple gameplay, just blasting stuff on your Xbox... What's the longevity of the average video game before kids get bored? two months? Three? You can only just fly in Alleg after that period of time so naturally loads of newbs will get bored and go elsewhere.

~P

Zapper · Post by **Zapper** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:03 pm

Some player data
Head count 9366
MIA 4181
Head count/MIA 44%
Rank stats
Rank________No. of rank___Hours Played
Newbie______5020________4811
Novice 1_____1176________4481
Novice 2_____729_________5083
Novice 3_____484_________5516
Novice 4_____299_________4828
Novice 5_____253_________5595
Novice 6_____193_________5749
Novice 7_____177_________7562
Inter 1______161_________9838
Inter 2______146_________14191
Inter 3______146_________18473
Inter 4______126_________19428
Inter 5______117_________20282
Inter 6______84__________21695
Inter 7______63__________16456
Veteran 1____76__________20185
Veteran 2____17__________5398
Veteran 3____22__________8077
Veteran 4____20__________6432
Veteran 5____16__________4728
Veteran 6____14__________3980
Veteran 7____5___________1815
Expert 1_____7___________2018
Expert 2_____7___________2436
Expert 3_____2___________690
Expert 4_____6___________2580
Expert 5_____1___________624
Expert 6_____1___________813