serious fl discussion ideas

[Nadrickk]

On a more serious note than my previous messages in this thread, I still think a Marketing Research plan should be use:

Below text is an example:

"1. Identify the problem(s): Drastic decrease/non-existent player presence on the server.
=> Problems to solve: How to increase server popularity ?
=> Project objectives: Regain popularity, bring new roleplay elements (example: jobs, objectives to follow, levels), create a map from scratch to attract players.
=> Research questions: Investigate the playerbase between the old and the new to determine multiple facts:
- What could bring a new player on the server and keep a player on the server ?"

If you need to build something use this:

While this is a good idea, you need to understand that FL is driven by a team of gamers. They're not (AFAIK) really into the buisness model, or have experience with this. They play Gmod, and they're used to the server basically run itself. 

If they had any experience with marketing, running a buisness etc, we wouldnt be in this situation as we're in right now. It's a server, powered by gamers to gamers. Which is fine.. but a soloution like this wont get us far..