Warrior General Games

Currently, bort has it set up so that each player has one free dot that can be made and boosted for free throughout his lifetime. What I propose is that for every RL year that a person remains active, and has a dot, that account is given another free player (with an arbitrary maximum so bort can still make money...let's say 5).

This has several benefits including agent retention and more dots to fill teams. This is not really asking for free flex or reward points, more just an idea to give people incentive to keep playing and stay active. There could even be the stipulation that the free player created has to be a player in high demand. Or perhaps some type of tiered structure.

Year 1: Ability to make a free 100 flex position player
Year 2: Ability to make another player who is either 100 or 200 flex
Year 3-?: Ability to make another player who of any flex level

A Real Life year is a lot of time and usually, I would argue that at least half of the users who start GLB are overwhelmed by the learning curve and don't stick around. This would improve both the number of new users who stay as well as the number of veterans who stick around for added benefits. And let's be honest, most users who are staying for that long are going to either become GMs or own a team or want to build more players, so they'll buy flex, which means more $ for bort, which is always a plus.

Thoughts? Pros and cons?

This game needs more dots anyway it can get them.

multi

I like it.

+1

Originally posted by DCocoSD
multi



All American Dude Signed Up:Jul 13, 2008 19:43:25

SikoraP13 DTD Signed Up: Aug 28, 2008 19:19:07

Clearly a multi....

no, it will encourage multi's, sorry for the bad wording. I mean that it will encourage people to hide better and wait till 5 (like you said), then they only need 11 accounts. Sorry I had to play the devil's advocate.

I have multis but the op isn't one of them.

Originally posted by DCocoSD
no, it will encourage multi's, sorry for the bad wording. I mean that it will encourage people to hide better and wait till 5 (like you said), then they only need 11 accounts. Sorry I had to play the devil's advocate.

Oh, lol, sorry, wording threw me, but I don't think you'd really have any more of a problem with multis than you do now. Maybe I'm mistaken, but GLB says multis are against the rules as is and usually enforces that. As long as they enforce the no multi rule better, I'd say it wouldn't pose too much of an issue.

GLB will be overrun with multis no matter what.

and no...

they don't really enforce the one account rule. That's just a myth.

I don't really see how this will keep new users around. 75% of my (admittedly very few) referrals make one visit and never come back. Quite a few of them didn't even make a dot. That suggests that the issue is with the poor presentation of information, the lack of things to do if you have just started and only have 1 dot, and the lack of any introduction to the game. Yes, we have the FAQ videos and the FAQ forum, but I don't think GLB does anywhere near enough to try and make new agents welcome and stick around for more than 5 minutes.

Welcome pack emails with basic information guides would be a good start. Then you need stuff - lots of stuff - for new users to play around with. Minigames, training camps, stuff where they can instantly see their dot doing something (however lol it is), things to spend in-game cash on. Without that, you're left with people who are prepared to start a "game" by reading a hell of a lot of stuff, whilst waiting up to two real-life days before they even see their dot do a thing.

Not gonna happen