How do you get an initial population anyway?

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

lol, but you still have THREE DIFFERENT servers. You open yourself to more RO players, but these players go to their respective servers only(HR players to HR, MR to MR, etc.). All that will achieve is that you will have three failing servers instead of one.

[Thorin]

Your server gets votes and reviews from all 3 of your servers not just one, so obviously you'll get more votes and reviews than if you just have 1 server, which leads to more people joining and voting and writting reviews, which leads to a stable and steadily growing population. This is the 3rd time i've repeated myself >_>

Sure you may have 3 small servers with say 50 ppl on each of them at first......but if you see it the way i do, you get the same amount of votes and reviews as 1 server with 150 ppl on. Its not that hard to get 3 server with 50 players but it is hard to get 1 server with 150+ players.

I wouldn't call them failing unless they are dead and empty.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Ah, that is a valid point.

Assuming, of course, that votes and reviews matter anything.

[Guest]

lol both of u have points....

some, probably most ppl, don't even read reviews or care about which server is in first place, they just join server X cause their friends there, or they know a GM there, or something lame like that lol

and ya more servers = more ppl (in total) x3 which in turn equals more votes..... if they vote XD

[Thorin]

Well i assumed that seeing how the largest servers are higher up on RMS and RO Voting Sites.

[Guest]

lol depends if the players decided to event vote or not XD
cause trust me some of them can be really lazy lol

[Thorin]

Yea.....i really don't understand that. There are servers with 1000+ players that love it there and yet only say 150 take the time to write a review on RMS. People spend hours and hours grinding yet they can't take 5 minutes to right a review and vote everyday.

[Ansuz Isaz]

xD I guess I'm one of those said lazy people. If I like some place well enough, I often vote for it on a pure whim, but next to never on a daily bases. xD Once every three days, once a week... whenever the whim hits me. xD

Though, I found a lot of these 1000+ player servers rarely have everyone liking the server. xD A lot of them stick around because the population is sexy, but they'll complain because of all the "hidden" drama, and what ever else there is.

[Thorin]

Though, I found a lot of these 1000+ player servers rarely have everyone liking the server. xD A lot of them stick around because the population is sexy, but they'll complain because of all the "hidden" drama, and what ever else there is.

Yea that is true, many people dislike LegacyRO but they stay there for that very reason. I remember after the Wipe the took themselves off RMS after being spammed with dozens of hate reviews. The population there makes WoE and PvP the best though.

[Guest]

ummm i don't think they really did take themselves off... but thats just me ^^;

their RMS ad had a link to destina RO on it XD
the rates on the ad were also changed to like 1k/1k/1k
and the description was changed to like "we fail" or something lmao

so ya.... i dun think they did that on purpose XD



anyway heres the downside to a 1k, or any other super large population

• massive amounts of spam
• tons of flamers
• more rumors and more dissapointment if you do something wrong
• tons of support needed
• and that means, lots of GM's needed
• tonsssss of time needed

but on the plus side

• massive WoE
• ppl attract more ppl
• usually a health economy
• lots of ppl to talk to
• more ppl to vote for your server
• and possibly becoming famous or infamous if things go wrong

[Aragorn]

thats the downside... it doesn't look like a downside to me.... (>.>)

[Ansuz Isaz]

• ppl attract more ppl

[/quoe]

Sadly, that's the core of the entire problem - to push this more in topic from large population to how to get it. In order to attract people, you need three things:

1. Something completely unique. However, this sometimes can backfire, such as the results of MouRO's population. xD Things that are so unique that they're game altering doesn't attract as much attention as they should.

2. Rates and features people want. Why the hell do you think almost every server has a reseter? =P Very few people actually want no resetters. They're there, mind you, but not in large numbers, which means there are only a few non-reset servers.

3.

• ppl attract more ppl

[/quoe]

Without a population, people don't stick around much. =P There are, again, a few people that like the smaller populations, but... well, actually, they're the happiest when they server hunt. xD They can find the most servers to work with.

[RhythmGate]

whats your server rates name and type? might wanna join~ though i'll leave once it touches 120 people

[Loki]

Hey. Nice to see someone interested. The server is called MouRO. Its not your typical RO server though. Check my signature for more info.

[Skotlex]

whats your server rates name and type? might wanna join~ though i'll leave once it touches 120 people

Hmm, you meant to the original poster? Well, the server, as far as I know, reaches the 2X range on weekends, and is on the mid 1X on high-tide during weekdays. It has been up for over four years, so... I think it will take quite a bit longer before it reaches 120 people xD' (on the plus side that gives me time to earn some income so I can properly host it if it reaches those numbers).

Type is... well, heavily customized. It's pretty much what the banner says. Reading the full-changelog would give you a pretty broad idea of how customized that is (and the website has infinite number of pages regarding all the information, too @_@).

The 120 number reminds me of the first server I was at that actually grew large enough, and then burned and crashed thanks to the greedy decisions of the administrator. BakanetRO... it was finally past the 100 players mark when the admin made the best decision ever: to split the server in two, where the better server was where you could only get in if you donated. T_T Yeah, we all predicted the death of it soon afterwards... so sad, when it was going so well.