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VOTE! New Month - Lets make a Drive for top 10


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I always vote. Its the prime way to raise the Player base numbers. And ours are a bit low.

And a dedicated player should vote or he will soon find himself playing alone. As life brings change, and with change people move on to other things.

The problem i see is that just getting the TOP10 is not enough.

In my view getting new players by the TMS involves certain steps.

-Player is aware of the mud on the TOP10 (or TOP20).

-Player find the mud description interesting and presses the link to the FL website.

-Player finds the website interesting and the mud description relevant to his interests.

-Player connects to the mud to check it out.

- Player is hooked and play.

In my view we are a bad in 3 steps:

- Giving visibility to the Mud by achieving TOP10 status.

(This is Players department and we are not doing enuff. But the more players we have the easier it becomes.)

- Convincing the player to connect to the MUD via WEbsite.

In my opinion our website cannot compete with other muds websites.

- Creating enough buzz for the NEW player that connects to the Mud.

This can be achived by having more newbies around asking newbie stuff in newbie channel and a bigger who list.

The summer vacations are a few months away, if we could get to the TOP10 and revamp the Website perhaps we could generate enough momento to expand the playerbase.

For example i player Wotmud before FL, and almost no one voted, and their website was nice for a mud. But they noticed that they where losing players and decided to do a revamp.

They convinced the players to vote and revamped the website to a professional look (one of their imms works on this field), and now they managed to increase they player base to 100 a night.

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'So. question. Im on a college campus. There are multiple libraries and buildings with computer labs. I have little homework tonight, so i do not have a problem with spending an hour or so walking around, logging on, and voting from as many computers as possible. My question is. Will that work? I do not know what they judge the voting off of.

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Depending on how their network is setup you might have a unique ip to vote with on each pc. Even then they're going to be similar enough that the host of TMS is going to see a lot of votes from the same place. So, be careful about over-doing the voting from campus, Tarako. It might bring more trouble than good if FL gets 50 votes from a common source.

I bring it up because we might already have a bit of a reputation because of the voting prompt that use to run on the forums. It was okay by the rules then, but they changed them just to disallow it.

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just go to different buildings, and use your wireless to connect to different wireless servers, each building should have it's own IP. I am pretty sure votes are counted by regulating IP. So if you just check your ipconfig and see a different IP, then by all means vote to your hearts content Mr. DeSalvo.

EDIT: Alot of the top muds require you to vote before you can log in, or give you rewards based on your votes.

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I can’t check now because it's blocked at work, but I noticed that very shortly after the reset, StockMUD had a VERY high vote count that was way way way above the MUDs that usually sit at top (Aardwolf, Acheaa, etc. – all of which had about 50 votes each). Still like that? It was very strange.

Dey

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EDIT: Alot of the top muds require you to vote before you can log in' date=' or give you rewards based on your votes.[/quote']

Virigoth did do something like this once - it took less than a week IIRC for members of the pbase to get uppity about it and start sending emails and causing trouble with TMS etc. During the time he did it - we were very high on the list though.

Well done to everyone though - glad to see I was right and we can get ourselves up there if we put in a concerted effort.

Lytholm.

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I'm going to write a program that people can choose individually to download that will vote for you automatically. I know that in my case I simply forget to vote a lot of the time, so I think it should help our standing a fair amount. We also don't have to worry about breaking any rules, because it would be voluntary, obviously, to download and run.

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I'm going to write a program that people can choose individually to download that will vote for you automatically. I know that in my case I simply forget to vote a lot of the time' date=' so I think it should help our standing a fair amount. We also don't have to worry about breaking any rules, because it would be voluntary, obviously, to download and run.[/quote']

I would use it... and make friends download it. ;)

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