Help Grow Thardferr

Lord Thane

I started advertising on Facebook in anticipation of the first "real" round that's coming soon. You can help by hopping on and liking/following the page:
https://www.facebook.com/officialthardferr/

Depending on how initial advertising tests go over the next few days, we'll know how much it costs to dig up a new player and better be able to gauge future marketing plans. Hopefully it works good 🙂

Jets

Lord Thane what a perfect time to bring up the wall of founders / donators. There should be quick link somewhere so when people do come back they not only see the donate button for y'all but also the tiers of subscriptions they could get and wall of mentions, for science.

TheKeeper

Jets I'm working on it, and also a nice things for supporters is coming!

Jets

TheKeeper take my money.

King Haybol

The best way to grow this game is to have someone from the school introduce it to high school and college students, offering rewards as an experiment.

It also needs to be introduced on most social media platforms now. Maybe in the form of advertisement. 😇😇😇

Lord Thane

King Haybol ive been running ads for a few days on fb. Pretty good results for likes/follows, maybe I will post up the results, it's kind of interesting to see 🙂

TheKeeper

What if we used the game as a referral system? We could give intangible rewards, but also ones that don't give an advantage over other players.

Lord Thane

First $50 ad spend results. During the 5 day campaign we got 8 new players signed up, giving an acquisition cost of $6.25 per player.

Page Likes Campaign:

Link Clicks Campaign:

Advanced Link Clicks Campaign:

The 60 likes/follows promoting the FB page was a pretty good deal for just $10, it adds credibility to the game when there's an active social following, so we may direct some additional campaigns at continuing to grow the FB page.

The simple links click campaign attained site visitors at about 12 cents per visitor, while the advanced campaign cost was about 7 cents per visitor, much better results with the advanced campaign.

One of the next things I want to do for marketing is make a video that goes over the game, talks about strategies, why/how it's fun. I really hate creating video walkthroughs, so IDK when I'll get to it, but I think it would be a great piece of promotional material to introduce new players to Thardferr.

Jaxx

King Haybol

Jaxx This is what I mean on the other post to have someone to introduce it in HS & College students by guiding and offering small rewards if they accomplish something and another reward if they can get people to play in this game. The reward should only be given thru physical appearance of the new player with his phone and the game.

Only HS & College Students has the strong chances of playing this game and have high chances of inviting their friends too but sad to say it's not workable in the Philippines. Most of the players there are connecting to one wifi in an internet cafe. It's common in the entire Philippines. 🤣🤣🤣

Lord Thane

Jaxx I don't think we'll be trying to attract "new players" in the traditional sense, like anything newer than Millennials generation is likely a lost cause. The people we're targeting to play the game are people that already played similar games over the last 30 years - anyone playing a game from the old mobster style to kingdom builder should already know what they're getting into with a Thardferr.

A player's counsel would be a good idea, if/when we ever get to the point of a player base where it makes sense. As it is we're probably looking at around 100-200 players in the first round, so the forums + polls are fine for all that.

Getting tutorial and strategy videos would be great for helping new players. If the community doesn't generate such content then we'll probably get some put together eventually. Maybe a live chatroom would be a fun addon in-game where players can globally talk in live time with each other - could be a replacement for the old messaging system, a more modernized game chat.

Muh Dude

Jaxx If you really want to retain players.. Then the current players need to act like they want to grow the game instead of win. Drop the super alliance bullshit and stick to your own prov.. I have only made one hit with communication outside of my prov. And that was just a promise to follow when I attacked the #1 KD trying to break the top province. But then once I realized we were fighting a several province alliance, I definitely checked out for a bit

Lord Thane A global chat would definitely be ... Interesting 😁

Lord Thane

King Haybol I was thinking about your point and it gave me some ideas! I think I could actually use my game "skins" idea to make a design that's visually more appealing to younger players. a flashy fancy interface, modern color schemes for RPGs, a totally visual/graphical tech tree, and even some ideas to make the battles visual with little troops and everything... I can do it lol. Just need to get the time for it, summer project 🙂

And then I got another idea for what @Jaxx was talking about with helping new players. I wanna get a version of Clippy for Thard - a new player advisor that will pop up and offer to take the player throughout the game to explain each section and give various advice and strategies. Maybe even integrate an AI into it that's trained specifically to teach noobs so they can even ask the advisor questions.

Jaxx

Cool.

jarockxu

Muh Dude I agree with Muh Dude! We don't even have 100 players and yet alliances? How does that make any sense?

Lord Thane

Muh Dude that's the ticket, and it goes against Thardferrian natural instincts, like our official motto goes "Our player base is toxic. It always has been." Lol

It's crazy how even in test rounds so many people are driven to not just have a friendly back n forth, but a drive to utterly destroy anyone who dares attack. I retaled 1 hit and he got 3 of his buddies to attack me. Just because I retaled his hit. It's like I said before, we need people to be able to celebrate their enemies victories, not take it as a personal vendetta to utterly destroy them at any cost.

DougEfresh

Muh Dude that hit, with our follow, has been the excuse for the massive alliance. and it was just me asking you what happened cuz i saw castles exchanged and you saying ill send my army fuck it. and me getting a follow.
i dont think our provinces have made a hit together since. and this was right oop.

Jets

Lord Thane I have yet to get in on a circle jerk and I am feeling a little left out. I even attack my friends.

trupheus

Lord Thane

First time I made an attack then got hit the same tick, then got hit coming out of protection, and then the retal was taken… yeah great times.

Lord Thane

Jets dang, I guess I just look like a juicier bottom for a gangbang. Being all alone in my province with my fat-bottomed lands uwu

DougEfresh

best part is we had never spoken before that. and i thought you were jets who had been hit