Posted 06 July 2010 - 08:14 AM
Although the Runescape forums are now dead, they used to be one of the most active sites I've ever seen. Just look at the post counts there. the Runescape forum (now called MMORPG forum) has 2654 Topics. To put that in perspective FGC only has 2408 Topics.
This is where the forum went right in the past and what we are lacking now. We need a main attraction. This used to be a Runescape forum, now it's just a general chatting website, many people joined for random reason unrelated to runescape, but it was the huge popularity of the runescape section that made this site pop up high on google, that made users bring in their friends and so forth. Without a main attraction or use like we once offered I'm worried that Nuneworld is doomed to the obscurities of the back of the web. I've tried advertising it on more popular forums and bringing my friends in, but new users will leave without any incentive to come back at the first "down-time" where there is a serious lack of new posts for a few days.
The only way to remove down-times is to have a proper use for the forums again. Therein lies the problem; How do we know what we want our main incentive to be?
Do we host flash games? That would cost Lord more bandwidth but is an option.
Do we focus on a big game? We tried that with World of Warcraft and it didn't work, likely because all big games now have their own official forums and the players no longer have use for third party forums like Nuneworld.
For now the best we (the users) can do for the forum is to stay active and to offer suggestions for ways to bring in more users on a regular basis. Think of this as a startup company (hell, if Nuneworld jumps back into popularity that would be worthy of adding to your resume). I know I'm hardly a good example of an active member, and I apoligize for my absense, I'll try and pop in here a lot more often, but we are going to need the help of all our loyal members to do so.
My suggestions for the immediate future is for Lord or Etile or myself to draft up a message to send to ALL registered users of the forum, and mass spam everyone who is registered here reminding them of the forums. I don't particularly like spamming but we're in desperate need of new blood. Once that email has been sent you'll be sure that thousands of one-time members will pop by, maybe not even to log in but they will stop by. They will evaluate the current active topics and sub-forums and then make a decision to post in one or not. many will not, but if even a half dozen or so decide to get roped back in we're on our way back to the top.
These are my two cents.