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Statistics: Posted by Demon — November 13th, 2011, 11:59 am
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Statistics: Posted by Market Man6 — November 13th, 2011, 11:31 am
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Perhaps we should think of adding something that'll catch Guest attention and give them a reason to visit the site. Users don't usually jump directly into the community, from what I've seen. I've only been to the Tip.It forums maybe 5 times(?) and that was only recently because I was talking to an administrator. Typically, if a page keeps your interest long enough, you will venture to test the community and become a part of the site.
What if we developed a text game for the homepage, similar to http://www.tribalwars.net, http://us.ikariam.com/, or even simpler, like http://www.ganglandmafia.com/. Starting out really small would let us gauge the impact and could give people a real reason to return to the site before joining the community. Just an idea. I saw that some of our users still play neopets.
We seem to have a tendency of expecting visitors to join the community directly and gauge our userbase on forum registrations. It's time to focus more on how many unique hits our homepage gets as these are the people (should they not register) that came, saw, and passed on. We need to figure out why they decided to move on and try to capture their attention better. Statistics: Posted by Demon — November 12th, 2011, 6:41 pm
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And hell no, RV shouldn't be shut down.
Statistics: Posted by Riptide — November 12th, 2011, 3:50 pm
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Honestly, I don't find the activity of RV to be so bad. I used to be in a group called The Empire Rising (some of you may be familiar with it) that never was incredibly active, but it was enough that I could check every hour or so. It did get a little sad when activity was almost halted, but for the longest time, about fifteen or so people were there pretty often, and I became pretty good friends with all of them. Being a part of a forum with so many new posts every second is hard to keep track. RV is very mellow, with pretty constant posts, and doesn't require me to look back here every few seconds and check three new posts. I just wish I could get to know you all better.
Statistics: Posted by Jdude73 — November 9th, 2011, 9:51 pm
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I disagree with the idea it should be shut down. I've made a lot of friends here and it will always be that kind of place for me - A home away from home.
Statistics: Posted by Magicana Drofulcus — November 9th, 2011, 9:20 pm
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I'm sick of the "boo-hoo, RV isn't the past" crap. Stop letting that rule your thinking and just enjoy yourself. All you will do is dig yourself into a psychological hole and never see past it even when stuff "gets better."
Martin wrote:
Does anyone else think that Runevillage should just go down?
Why should RV go down? We are a community and communicate through this website... our purpose has temporarily shifted from 'helping RS players & remaining a close community of gamers with common interests' to only 'remaining a close community of gamers with common interests'. As long as something has a function, that something does not 'need to' go down. Obviously there are a ton of other similar communities out there, and perhaps even cheaper, 'free' alternatives to stay in contact with a community... but it's a matter of being independent and freelance, having a name. RV can go in whatever direction the people want - it's a phase of identity at the moment, just like in real life. Everyone has just too many expectations from RV, they should just stop being too cynical, you don't just ditch a friend if he/she starts being less exciting, do you?
Henner, if you just come here and pull the down card, it doesn't help much either... come on, I know you can be an optimistic person! :p What we need to do is figure out our identity, that means, figuring out what we want to do next to being a community. A community is likely to shrink after time, people grow up, change interests, stop playing games (or not?), get busy, leave the community.... so it is a good idea to consider ways of getting new faces. Like I said, if we want to only remain a community, then it will be difficult to get new people, as there isn't an obvious unique attraction.. so at the moment it's probably easiest to get new people by asking friends to join, but we can't just rely on that, or can we? If I were you, I would put more effort in finishing that topic, I mentioned now many times, and deciding on what we aim to be, then figure out how we will become that.... discussion, public poll, evaluation, implementation. We've had plenty of suggestions in our discussions, but the decision part is just missing... if everyone just wants to remain a community with forums, then we shouldn't be surprised about the consequences though.
Statistics: Posted by Dark Paladin — November 9th, 2011, 7:43 pm
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Does anyone else think that Runevillage should just go down?
No, not ever.
Statistics: Posted by Godders — November 9th, 2011, 6:44 am
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I am deeply sorry for not having read this whole topic, but could anyone be so kind as to answer this:
Does anyone else think that Runevillage should just go down?
The kindest of regards,
Martin
Statistics: Posted by Martin — November 9th, 2011, 6:30 am
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People need to post more. I see a ton of views for threads and very few replies.
This thing.
I'm sick of the "boo-hoo, RV isn't the past" crap. Stop letting that rule your thinking and just enjoy yourself. All you will do is dig yourself into a psychological hole and never see past it even when stuff "gets better."
Statistics: Posted by Blackmage172 — November 8th, 2011, 11:31 pm
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Henner wrote:
The Village just doesn't seem the same anymore.. 
This
Snake1235 wrote:
People need to post more. I see a ton of views for threads and very few replies.
And this. I make an effort to post in every thread I'm interested in when I log on, but it doesn't do any good when there are no new responses. And though I'd say the games discussion forum has seen an increase in activity, everything else remains the same or has gotten worse. I couldn't agree with Goten's OP more, except I'm a bit more pessimistic.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I understand the need to move on from Runescape for a number of reasons, but we've spread ourselves way thin. I feel like the captain of a sinking ship...doomed to go down with it as it goes glubglubglub. We honestly have NOTHING to offer outsiders. Nothing. The community is what everyone cites as our specialty, but it takes time and effort to become part of it, or even to get to know it. We have nothing to grab new users. There are huge amounts of gaming sites with many more features.
And of course this place was more active right after the hiker incident, it was big news. And everyone was charged up with new direction mania but that has since died down, like everything else.
I'm trying my best to do as much as I'm able, but with the new direction the RVET is floundering trying to find a new way to bring everyone together, but we're trying. The villager: forget about it. Our leader hasn't posted on the forum in weeks, and one of our new leading writers has since quit RV.
The future is bleak. RV is a husk of its' former glory, and it saddens me every day. I'm one person, are YOU doing your part for this site?
Statistics: Posted by Landerpurex — November 8th, 2011, 12:21 am
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The Village just doesn't seem the same anymore..
Statistics: Posted by Tanksandguns — November 7th, 2011, 11:12 am
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n00b 4 m1nin wrote:
Rory wrote:
It's time we upgraded.
Into a town.
Into a town.
...or a Metropolis.
Statistics: Posted by Godders — November 7th, 2011, 1:34 am
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Rory wrote:
It's time we upgraded.
Into a town.
Into a town.
...or a Metropolis.
Statistics: Posted by Christopher — November 6th, 2011, 8:41 pm
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But I could try TF2 or SK.
Statistics: Posted by Market Man6 — November 6th, 2011, 8:33 pm
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