Illarion on My-space

Rincewind · Post by **Rincewind** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:27 pm

Idea:
introduce Illarion on myspace.com

Why?
recruit new players and make advertising

I think this will work very good. What do you think?

Nalzaxx · Post by **Nalzaxx** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:52 pm

I think myspace sucks.

Facebook is better, is more suited to our target audience and most people have one.

Tanistian_Kanea · Post by **Tanistian_Kanea** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:36 pm

Both. (duh)

Reason, some people (i do know them) don't like one or the other.

Drakon · Post by **Drakon** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:15 pm

Hint: Search in facebook for "Illarionites"

Post by **Nitram** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:18 pm

Tanistian_Kanea wrote:Reason, some people (i do know them) don't like one or the other.

And some even think both is crap.

Sssari · Post by **Sssari** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:53 pm

Nitram wrote:
Tanistian_Kanea wrote:Reason, some people (i do know them) don't like one or the other.
And some even think both is crap.

I agree.

pharse · Post by **pharse** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:00 pm

I think there's enough to maintain for the staff. If you think it's a good idea, you can do this on your own or with other players any time.

Azuros · Post by **Azuros** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:21 pm

We have an Illarionite group on facebook back from way back when, but it's not active at all. If other Illarionites want to join the group just let me know so I can link you to it.

Salhari · Post by **Salhari** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:55 pm

whoa whoa whoa, I dont wanna be a jackass or anything, but I see one -huge- problem with this: assholes. As im sure we all know there, are thousands and thousands of people out there who just wait for a chance to cause problems. The only thing I can see resulting from this is maybe 10-15 more -real- players, and probably a flood of hundreds of complete assholes who just want to mess with people. I think the only thing that this will cause is an influx of people who refuse to RP, and join simply to harrass us. Gaming sites and such are good, because people normally use them when they are looking for a game, but advertising an RP game on something like myspace or facebook... not a good imho, unless the staff love banning people by the droves, in which case, should be lots of fun for them ^_^ thats all I have to say on the matter, I really hope i didnt upset anyone

@Nitram- yes, they both suck >_>

ogerawa · Post by **ogerawa** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:07 pm

The newbie island would filter the "assholes" most likely... or at least i hope so xD

bdgdkay · Post by **bdgdkay** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:26 pm

but, dont they have the option to skip newbie island?

ogerawa · Post by **ogerawa** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:29 pm

i'm under the impression that you can only skip if and only if it's not a new account... not really sure though ^^;;;

LifeWonder · Post by **LifeWonder** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:03 pm

ogerawa wrote:i'm under the impression that you can only skip if and only if it's not a new account... not really sure though ^^;;;

Yup.

Tanistian_Kanea · Post by **Tanistian_Kanea** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:00 am

cool, would prolly filter 90% of the idiots then

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:18 am

I fail to see what putting illarion in some social networking site, or one of those 'just add water' websites will do anything good to our image.

Seriously, everytime I see a myspace URL I think "This guy is too lazy to make his own"

Post by **Estralis Seborian** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:00 pm

http://illarion.org/community/wiki/index.php/Promotion

Rincewind · Post by **Rincewind** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:54 pm

Maeglin Telemmaite · Post by **Maeglin Telemmaite** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:28 am

I totaly agree on this one.we need something on myspace or face book and everything else too!!!!!but...Salhari is rite...we need a better way to filter the game.I have an idea on that aspect too.I got bored one day because the server was down adn i was playing runescape(i know retarted rite)and when i logged in it asked me a bunch of questions.I think when you create a charactor and go to newbie island there should be a part where you get asked a few questions at teh end.Then depending on their answers it determines wheather tehy should be able to play...this could also cause problems soo another proposal would be in even making an account to ask these Questions.One of the bigger Questions to ask would probably be one like:"if you had the option would you rather play a game with roleplaying or fighting and free speech.(or something like that)

remember just an idea.

rakust dorenstkzul · Post by **rakust dorenstkzul** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:29 am

Maeglin Telemmaite wrote:we need a better way to filter the game.

Exactly....

Post by **Estralis Seborian** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:03 pm

I think when you create a charactor and go to newbie island there should be a part where you get asked a few questions at teh end.

We had such a questionary. It was removed. For a reason. And it will not come back.

Keikan Hiru · Post by **Keikan Hiru** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:18 pm

And in ancient, long forgotten times, way before the multiple choice questionnaire we made people actually write real texts before we let them play.
I always threw those texts into a spellchecker and shuddered when it returned in complete red to me.
(I read them anyway.)

... rite?

So, be happy that Illarion decided to be an easily accessable game, with Gamemaster willing to do the filtering, if needed.

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:20 pm

Estralis Seborian wrote:
I think when you create a charactor and go to newbie island there should be a part where you get asked a few questions at teh end.
We had such a questionary. It was removed. For a reason. And it will not come back.

Namely we decided to rehabilitate 100% n00bs instead of throw them off a cliff.

The questionares could have been done many many times, so even monkeys on typewriters could have done it - eventually.