Fearless problems + solutions

[Haarek]

I agree with a lot of this, I think the sole  biggest issue, and from what I remember this was brought up in the meeting, is that people are just getting bored of a gamemode that hasn't really changed or been built on significantly for a couple of years now. A lot of older players are very very very wealthy, and there's not a lot to work towards for them so there's really not much incentive for them to join, contrastingly, because we've been somewhat stagnant for a while, newer players (who we need to expand our playerbase) don't want to stay with us because there are similar servers with paid development teams that have essentially been able to push out bigger updates much faster than volunteers, which means their servers/gamemodes are much more advanced than ours.

I think the problem lays deeper than the assumption that people are getting bored of the gamemode. We are looking at finding completely new players that have never player Fearless before. The problem that needs to be approached is how to "funnel" people into the server

The 3 most important points to get new players are: 

 - Becoming visible
 - A short first time download
 - Maintaining player interest the first hours of playtime. 


These points are the foundation for my subsequent posts. 
I agree with everything else you said, Sparx.