spacekadt Posted:

And how many people don’t participate on flamebate? Where’s the plan to make that better? I know this is focused on domination, but if the goal is to increase endgame participation, you’re only effectively trading off.

I don’t (generally) enjoy flamebate. I don’t generally enjoy forumbuildr. Domination is the one piece of endgame that I do enjoy and you’re really all but taking that away from me. I enjoy the raiding, I enjoy the competition, I enjoy the cutthroat nature of it.

If you’re talking about drastically altering dom (changing where people are seeded based on scoop counts), what’s the possibility of people participating in raid vs. non-raid brackets? I guess it’d probably be two klans warring with each other, but there’s got to be some better solution than taking away the one piece of endgame that’s strategy based instead of roleplay or creativity based. (yes, if you cap my vanillas to the numbers I’ve seen thrown around and my raid abilities, you’ve taken away my fun)

I understand what you are saying, there is one aspect of the game that you still enjoy and you’d rather not see it screwed with. However if domination is going to be the flagship endgame it really needs to be fun for the maximum number of players not just a small number of dedicated players.

What MC and others are saying is that in order to grow forumwarz as a whole you need to find a balance between the experienced fanbase and the new fanbase. If new players cannot compete in domination they are unlikely to play it. If they quit playing domination what is around to keep them here until episode 2 and beyond? Incit? Forumbuildr? Flamebate? IDC? each of those have a very dedicated userbase but honestly there are relatively small groups. You need an endgame that keeps people coming back and spending their visits. Presumably domination is that game but currently I think it’s failing at that task.