I thought about this on my way to work this morning.
I don't think it would be a problem advertising FragBU on the front page because:
1) Nobody plays NW CTF. Look at how many empty public servers there are. The only people that play NW CTF are clans that are either leet or semi-leet. The reason why is NW is not newb friendly, it takes alot of effort to get good at. You have to scour the forums for tips and tricks.....etc. The people that
really play NW CTF are on locked servers anyway, and we don't need to get into the reasons why.....
2) We can go out in the pubs with the "BuF" tag, but that doesn't lead them here. The only people that know what the BuF tag means are people who are 'in the know' to begin with. ie: [Ci], |C| and the people who are associated with them, for instance [H] may know because Flames' husband is in there..I personally linked them here...etc, etc. And they will know how to get on "The Web" anyway, simply through association. I've tried inviting newbs here, but I'm not the gifted evangelist that webby is.
3) It's difficult to get people to play on your server to begin with, I linked [H] here.....how many showed up? One guy, Mep[H]. Look at their forums, that post I made has more than 100 reads vs 5 posts.......and one guy shows up. Now there may be dozens of reasons why they didn't show but the point is.....
they didn't show .
There's a server in Texas, that Ren and I played on last night, that server has been pimped endlessly on INA (which I'm guessing gets a ton more traffic than we do)......there were 4 people playing. Me, Ren, [H]Nem and some newb. Four....!!
4) I belong to some Enemy Territory forums, and I've got passwords to servers, but the only way I got them was to
register in their forums, and then I could get to a separate forum that is for forum members
only. I'm not sure but I think that's probably because they've captured my IP and so they can associate trouble makers on the Servers with the IP in the forums. Maybe we could do that?
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