| Finding Stars-players |
Mon, 20 November 2017 11:48  |
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The player community has certainly shrinked quite a bit.
The question arises how to find enough players to get games going and best, if the experience level is not too different.
One of the advantages of the Home World Forum and autohost: We still have a functioning forum and an excellent interface to automate turn generation.
1) News list
In another thread I have already mentioned to also use the old news list for announcements:
# https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.computer.s tars
Best done with also always including a link to the announcement in this forums but it certainly needs a form and topic which clearly distinguishes those announcement from all the spam there.
2) Player communities of other language areas
Another thing where might still lure quite some isolated Stars-players...
Due to the language barriers and also just because there were enough players and it was more convenient for them, there used to be completly independent player communities in:
# France and French speaking areas
# Poland?
# Russia
# Germany
# other?
All languages I can sadly not write and read (except the last one). But I noticed (or rather guess) that in the last years those player communities have more or less fallen apart and lost their forums and websites. I've gotten also the impression that over the years some players form those communities have found their way to "us" here... also because English has become more common.
Have we got any players from those areas or with the approbiate language skills? Who know which places and websites still exist? With whom we could connect to pool players together to get more games going?
3) Direct invitation emails
Experienced hosts with a few games under their belt should/could also directly invite players of former games via email. In my experience this is never seen as spam but highly welcome (and if only to remember the great times they had with Stars).
[Updated on: Mon, 20 November 2017 12:48] Report message to a moderator
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