The key to this game surviving in the future is the Primary Server. If you get more new players into the Primary Server that will naturally feed into other servers.

How can this be achieved:-

- Promote the game!!
There are so many avenues to promote the game. Some of them are free (like using our existing user base or social media). Some of them can be done quite cheaply. The key is to get people to actually look at the front page.

- Make a new front page.
Think of yourself as a new player and then go to http://www.earthempires.com. What does that page do to make you want to play? It's full of gibberish and information that is meaningless to a potential new player. Simplify it, make a good graphic with good tag lines and use the front page to PROMOTE the game to anyone who may look.

- Make the Primary Server more newbie friendly.
This could involve a rainbow bonus to keep newbs more competitive early in the set (i.e if you have 10% of your buildings as every building you get a 30% income boost or something). It could be that on top of DR after 2 attacks on your country in 24 hours the 3rd attack gives the defender a 10% military bonus that stacks up to 10 times which would lead to more bounces and make farming less attractive. The details are unimportant, I am sure we can come up with ways to make the Primary Server more newbie friendly.

qzjul I am happy to discuss this with you more and we have had many good conversations on how the game can be improved.

Get rid of the blog link (makes us look inactive) cuz last post was from 2010, create a bugzilla so that you can actually remember bugs, and then make a link on the front page to replace the blog so that duplicate bugs arent reported as often. Remove the Earth Info link as well... why have 2 wiki links? Silly.

The front page is filled with static info in those paragraphs that is very old, and I bet no body reads.

The forums css should be applied to the rest of EE to have one look.

Tbf. I tried helping with the bugs n what not. Had categories for significance and relevance t o UI, forums, and in game..

I think the lack of time and effort is a major issue with our dev team..which is only QZ from what i see. Personally id like too see more of the projects out sourced so they do get done..

Oh.. And yes.. Take the blog down

Oddly enough, I've started working on this stuff recently...



My plan is to get a bootstrap template - like the forums - jammed on the front page too, based largely on some work of pangs a couple years ago; I would definitely like to get that up

I think that's key, before promotion -- though promoting it, via FB or an app or *something* is an idea i like

Superbowl ads.

It will bring everyone who has played to come back.

Hunt down those celebrities who have played this game, sign them to sponsorship deals.



I'll get started on these things as soon as I win that lottery

i think only "celebrity" who has played this game was that killer jared laughner.

whatever you did in the newskin link added alot of lag to everything else running on my computer, but the menu was a nice change with easy access to alot of click here then here then there links in one click instead.

could be that i'm linking to a dead image

you photobucket necromancer!

The new skin looks okay, but the problem is the front page to the website. That is the first page a new visitor will see and it is the page they will judge the game on.

For example some other turn based text games:-

https://www.blackaftermath.com/
http://www.themobstergame.com/
http://www.new1000ad.com/
https://www.torn.com/
http://war2072.com/
http://exmafia.com/
http://www.fallen-sanctum.com/

Whilst none of those are amazing they are better than what we have, and I think we can do better.

But before promoting the game the Primary Server also needs to be addressed to reduce excessive farming.