Lots of People, Little Posts

[Healingpoison]

625 of our members have not posted once. To think we only have 800? We get people here, but we dont get them to post.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

as is the way with many forums.

 

[Healingpoison]

Damn. Were normal. Doesn't that annoy you?

 

[GST_Nemisis]

what do u mean?

 

[Healingpoison]

We need spice, not like we dont have it with all the cool visuals, but something to make people post, I mean the intro section is a good idea but we need something to really make people post. If, of course, such a thing exsists.

 

[Bob27]

well the only people that really post in forums like this are people who like Warcraft III Moding, anyone who dosn't post probably has no experience with the WE whatsoever.

 

[Healingpoison]

We need to make the stratgy part more popular and well knowen. I could start a strat contest. I wonder how I could do that? Tips/suggestions accepted.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

we need a funny flash video! straight off if we had an ultimate showdown clone we would be more popular than a self solving rubix cube.

 

[Healingpoison]

Thats a good idea! I think up plans for like a replay contest.

 

[Bob27]

well maybe if we get a good model section, icon section, model section and so on it will attract some good map makers.

 

[Healingpoison]

Map Makers, we have enough of those (no offense I'm one myself)

We need more than just one group of people, in my opioin.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

it all depends on what audince you want. atm hive is mappers and war craft players. if you want to keep it that way we have toc content with the likes of wc3campaigns, thats like linux vs microsoft, one is obivously better but everyone follow the other one ne ways. if not we need more generic things to attract non wc3 players too.

 

[Bob27]

well thats where i've already discussed this but a multigameing forum might be a good idea.

 

[Healingpoison]

"war craft players" you say? Whats the ratio of MMs (map makers) to WC3 Players do you think?

 

[Bob27]

Well I supose theres alot more warcraft 3 players then map makers. But still if we can get some good map makers to come over here we could get alot more popular.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

well most people here (as in the 800 or so, including those not posting) were attracted by the map, which is indicating fan of the map. however because these forums focus on subject such as map making, more than map general chat anyways, that ratio becomes unbalanced. while it is difficult to say i would guess of the 800 most, say 75%, are fans of the map. of the 50 or so who post here nearly all 90% are map makers of some kind?

 

[Healingpoison]

*cough* I'm not quiet sure about that, well maybe. MMs are our main posters here. WC3Ps take one look, relize its mainly for MMs and leave, I think.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

sorry for double post, but i agree with what u say, read my previous post.

 

[Bob27]

well maybe we could get some stratergys for Warcraft III? That might atract some more of the gamers.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i think gamefaqs is the place for stratergies. i dont really have any ideas, and im sorry if im crushing all of yours, but if we keep this thread open we will come up with something that works. constructive cirtisism welcome i suppose. idea here!

 

[Bob27]

yes well a good idea takes time to come up with, at least here we have a place to brainstorm ideas. The only way I think that would make us more popular is somehow getting members from other wc3moding sites. With my contest for example I made a post at wc3sear and wc3anvil about the contest, so most of the contestants are from wc3sear of wc3anvil. Also another idea is with other forums when asking for a hosted forum you have 2 make this huge long info and so on. Thats why I came here, because I couldn't get my projects hosted anywhere else. And all Ralle asks for is a discription, name and moderators. Maybe we could go on some advertising campaign trying to get more hosted projects?

 

[bountyhunter2]

yea realy a lot of people but small posts, on my old forums there was 30 of us and 9000 posts...

 

[Ralle]

I have an idea that I've had for a long time. I just need the map...
A map where you can get unique items by a code you get when you have 100 posts or 500 and stuff.. a code to make your character really cool

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

A RPG where you get codes by posting on the hive?

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i think all the top map makers here should brainstorm a top secret map, which is join project, and then present it to the world as the hivescreation.

all u guys need are some ideas and you could be bigger than dota!

 

[Ralle]

I still have my good old idea

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

At the moment Modforge has just started their new project "Modforge TD" which I also am a part of, maybe the Hive should do something like this aswell?

 

[Ralle]

sure, lets first decide a maptype

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i would like to play a oas which has a plot more in depth than "attack the castle coz we said so". if you gave the battle a point, it could also make way for unique items, like if u play for this amount of time u get this axe because the blacksmith made it for whatever or if you do that sidequest before whatever thing happens u get some new magic. also giving each player an induvidual side quest would be cool. like one players could be to kill 100 fire creature, anothers to heal 5 teamates. also if you do a side quest like collect 50 wood for the bears there could be little cenimatic for that character. like battleships or whatever it was called u could have different classes, like the trader but also the collecter and the healer and the fighter and the black mage ect...

 

[Healingpoison]

That sounds like a kool idea.

 

[Bob27]

i'm definatly for this one. I could prob do terraining.

 

[Healingpoison]

I could do items or abilities. I'm pretty good at abilities.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i could give ideas

the only thing i have yet to see from a wc3 map is a style where what you do affects the game in severly different ways. similar to how in deus ex : invisible war you can chose stealth over assualt and it will make a different outcome. so in a map say if you chose to be healer, and you do one miniquest but not another you get different options opened, and more quests and more items. it would be alot of work but the game would be unique every time, no battle would ever be the same.

 

[Healingpoison]

Thats what all good maps need, irregualerity. Thats a good idea.