Lightfoot8 wrote...
In order to Boost the game new players are needed.
Thinking back to when I started playing NWN, I can remember thinking about trying multi-player. It was Quite an experience. It seemed like every server I tried to play game that dreaded "xxxx.tlk file missing" message. To add to that not many of the servers even told you where you could find such file. In My opinion, One of the best ways to increase player could would be to make more Hak free servers available to new players. It would give more people the chance to become addicted to the game and after that addiction sets in, more willing to download Haks to play other servers.
To me a good Idea would be if someone built a HakFree server that had a library of "How to join other servers" as an area in it. It would still need some playability, But its main goal would be to give New players information straight from game spy. It could not hurt in a quest to not lose potential players.
Somewhat related to this I wrote a plugin for nwnx on linux that allows hiding custom haks and the tlk from players logging in. So a world could build a 'hak free' starting experience, or a scaled 'hak free', 'hak light', then 'scads of haks' experience on top. (Naturally, some care would have to be taken.) Here is a link to the nwnx core2.8 version if anyone is interested:
http://www.nwnx.org/...opic.php?t=1878 Only a couple people have shown any interest in it and I don't think anyone uses it except my own server. But maybe it could help someone, if only to have a starting area new people could read some signs in or talk to other players before committing to downloading a GB of haks or old worlds could start adding some of this amazing new content without limiting their player pool.
Modifié par pope_leo, 01 avril 2012 - 07:09 .
