DISCLAIMER:
this is not a thread about "ooooogh BL is dead I'm so emooooo"
this is not a thread about "Badspot is such a forgetnut omfg just update the gaaaaaaaame"
this is a thread about actions we can take as a community to get a bigger playerbase again
it's probably been made a thousand times but this thread relates to BL in late 2016 sooo
thank you
so BL is pretty inactive right now
I'll go online and only see about 4 or 5 servers with any people on them, when there used to be about 10 or 15 at the very least (keep in mind this is anecdotal)
so overall there's about 4 or 5 people online at a minimum and at a maximum I'd say 30
servers used to be much bigger than this and you'd have discussion about things in game all the time here on the forums
now you have discussion on the forums about servers, but no people actually in the servers
it creates a strange disconnect between the people who play the game and the people who forum here, even though we're the same people
at this point I'm done with trying to figure out why people aren't playing as much anymore
we already know a lot about why they don't so let's just ask how we can fix that (not Badspot)
fyi it'd be productive to not be that starfish that goes, "there's nothing we can do nostalgia nostalgia rose-tinted glasses"
there's definitely something we can do so let's figure out what it is and do it
for example,
I think a big problem with the game is the lack of server variety
how many randomizer dms there are
compared to how many freebuilds/do-whatever-the-forget-you-want servers there are
you see my point
so my solution would be to create a megathread here for sharing ideas
the reason for that is so people can draw influence from the list of ideas and make a server unique to BL
I know that I would host some interesting servers with the concepts I have but I have a stuffty network and I'm not into paying for hosting monthly so I'm stuck just relying on people to figure it out all by themselves
I can see major strides with the recent arrival of BL Glass
people who left because of Ephi shutting down RTB now have a unified system for downloading add-ons and server management again, and they're even adding chatrooms
so that could easily draw new players in as well as old players back
so yeah,
/discuss