Original Post
Raising Toribash's awareness
It's no news that the community seem to be slowly dying, each time there are less active threads and there are more players quitting toribash than new players trying it. This game is quite old, around ten years already but this doesnt mean it should die now, here I will leave a few suggestions which might help to keep it alive:
1st: Making things easier for new players. The current tutorials aren't bad but they dont help too much when you are new. They are already interactive but I believe that they should have audio as well and a larger variety of them.
For instance: like a tutorial on how to host your server or how to use the market and stuff like that. Dont tell me that you can find those here in the forums because most new players dont even check them.
2nd: Right now toribash is DMR free. However, adding a launcher might help new players as well as making it easier to update it. While loading, there you can show a few vids of the game, popular events as well as some tutorials and that kind of stuff. I would also add there links to the forums, probably to the IRC and clan boards.
3rd: The easiest way to raise the awareness of a game is having popular youtuber playing it. Yes Markiplier did ONE vid about it but that's not enough, what we need instead is a serie of gameplays which keeps viewers interested in the game. This might be the hardest of my suggestions since convising a well-known youtuber to play such a hard game which they probably didnt even know that existed and make a serie out of it kinda sounds impossible.
To make it more possible we should try to convise them by offering to help them to learn how to play and maybe give them some in-game intems, such as 3d items or maybe some textures. What really matters here is that they keep uploading vids about it encouraging their viewers to try it themselfs
4th: Some players get really frustated by how hard is to get in gane items without spending money, remeber that not everyone knows how to make good art and that at the beginning you cant just go around winning tournaments. Adding rewards from loging-in and when you get promoted to the next belt might decrease this frustation.
I am not saying that they should get 1kk tc each time they get to the next belt but maybe something like 1k or 2k would be nice. This however should change from belt to belt, when you are a white belt and become a yellow belt you should get something like 250 tc and it should increase each time you rank up. The daily reward from logging in should work pretty much the same way, take warframe log-in rewards as an example, they arent great but they keep players loging in constantly.
5th and last one: dividing the in game chat in the room chat, support, region, clan chat and IRC. This might sound a bit odd but its actually quite useful and will make it easier to acces the stuff members, specially for those who arent used to using the forums.
Alright that is what I suggest, I hope this helps the community to keep alive. We must keep this game alive, its worth the effort!
1st: Making things easier for new players. The current tutorials aren't bad but they dont help too much when you are new. They are already interactive but I believe that they should have audio as well and a larger variety of them.
For instance: like a tutorial on how to host your server or how to use the market and stuff like that. Dont tell me that you can find those here in the forums because most new players dont even check them.
2nd: Right now toribash is DMR free. However, adding a launcher might help new players as well as making it easier to update it. While loading, there you can show a few vids of the game, popular events as well as some tutorials and that kind of stuff. I would also add there links to the forums, probably to the IRC and clan boards.
3rd: The easiest way to raise the awareness of a game is having popular youtuber playing it. Yes Markiplier did ONE vid about it but that's not enough, what we need instead is a serie of gameplays which keeps viewers interested in the game. This might be the hardest of my suggestions since convising a well-known youtuber to play such a hard game which they probably didnt even know that existed and make a serie out of it kinda sounds impossible.
To make it more possible we should try to convise them by offering to help them to learn how to play and maybe give them some in-game intems, such as 3d items or maybe some textures. What really matters here is that they keep uploading vids about it encouraging their viewers to try it themselfs
4th: Some players get really frustated by how hard is to get in gane items without spending money, remeber that not everyone knows how to make good art and that at the beginning you cant just go around winning tournaments. Adding rewards from loging-in and when you get promoted to the next belt might decrease this frustation.
I am not saying that they should get 1kk tc each time they get to the next belt but maybe something like 1k or 2k would be nice. This however should change from belt to belt, when you are a white belt and become a yellow belt you should get something like 250 tc and it should increase each time you rank up. The daily reward from logging in should work pretty much the same way, take warframe log-in rewards as an example, they arent great but they keep players loging in constantly.
5th and last one: dividing the in game chat in the room chat, support, region, clan chat and IRC. This might sound a bit odd but its actually quite useful and will make it easier to acces the stuff members, specially for those who arent used to using the forums.
Alright that is what I suggest, I hope this helps the community to keep alive. We must keep this game alive, its worth the effort!
Almost everyone is directed to the forums when they're ingame at some point, where everything is. Banners already put events in members' faces. Having people play the game to publicize seems pointless, the game is already on steam. Making items easy to obtain takes away from developing the community. If you give tc for free, who would even want to learn texturing and such?
The game isn't really dying, and I don't think any of this is necessary or worth implementing.
The game isn't really dying, and I don't think any of this is necessary or worth implementing.
Last edited by TyZi; Feb 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM.
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Originally Posted by Kaneki333
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The idea of a launcher (similar to league or something) is ideal to be honest.
TB survives on its community yet the game offers no redirection to the forums at all; anything like that has to come from the existing community.
The tutorials are so-so in my opinion: making the introduction to the game nicer is obviously a good step and I support this notion entirely, but I don't think it would have the same impact a decent launcher/client would have.
The youtuber idea is maybe idealistic.
Point 4 is exploitable.
Point 5 is whatever. Feels like it might give people less reason to explore outside the client if you see what I mean.
TB survives on its community yet the game offers no redirection to the forums at all; anything like that has to come from the existing community.
The tutorials are so-so in my opinion: making the introduction to the game nicer is obviously a good step and I support this notion entirely, but I don't think it would have the same impact a decent launcher/client would have.
The youtuber idea is maybe idealistic.
Point 4 is exploitable.
Point 5 is whatever. Feels like it might give people less reason to explore outside the client if you see what I mean.
Not all of the suggestions will work but some might help the game to improve.
If a tutorial similar to what K0HTA did was introduced in-game new players could get abetter understanding of how joins work from the beginning. This usually takes quite some time I remember I started figuring out how to use each join around a month after starting and yeah it took me like 3 months to discover the forums.
The second one seems like a good idea to develop
If a tutorial similar to what K0HTA did was introduced in-game new players could get abetter understanding of how joins work from the beginning. This usually takes quite some time I remember I started figuring out how to use each join around a month after starting and yeah it took me like 3 months to discover the forums.
The second one seems like a good idea to develop
There is not much to change about the gameplay itself, maybe a few bugs here and there, remember that the views dont mean that 10kk ppl have seen it tho when it got on steam most ppl checked it out, maybe with a launcher it would improve,at least for now.
It wouldnt be that hard to do, tho experience is needed in order to do it right, I tried doing a sketch of it but I am not good enough so I took Wf a a reference and put what I would do in each place. I choose Wf's launcher since I think that it's well made, doesnt have an overwhelming amount of info but it doesnt lack of info either.
It wouldnt be that hard to do, tho experience is needed in order to do it right, I tried doing a sketch of it but I am not good enough so I took Wf a a reference and put what I would do in each place. I choose Wf's launcher since I think that it's well made, doesnt have an overwhelming amount of info but it doesnt lack of info either.
