This is an open floor discussion for anyone who has ideas on how to step up our community and take things to another level. One goal I set for the staff was to help us reach 50 Forum accounts by the end of 2011 and we made it. It may not sound like a lot but for a community that's officially less than two months old it's pretty damn good. Our Battlelog Platoon is approaching the 100 Member Limit quickly and this is a good indication of how we have grown. Most platoons we come across have anywhere from 5 to 20 members so it's nice to see that people have interest in what we're doing. We now have a TeamSpeak 3 server thanks to DubTx that is slowly but surely seeing more and more use. This is an extremely important communication channel because it brings us closer as a community by introducing a much needed human element to what we do. Chatting, gaming, forum talk, it's all kind of cold. But bringing voice into the picture changes things. We also have a dedicated Procon Layer running on our GameServers host that runs 24/7, administrating our servers with various plugins when we can't be around. We have all the tools we need to make No Nonsense Gamers great. Hell, I even think the name sets us apart. It's a sort of code by how we run the shop. We're not behavioral nazis but we certainly won't tolerate bullshit and I think there is an appeal there for people who've been scarred by poorly run servers. I never wanted this community to turn into a task or a job. But it becomes clearer to me as time goes on that if we want these forums jam packed with users and we want our servers queuing up into the 5's, 6's, or 7's, then we absolutely have to work on seeding the fuck out of them. That sounds really bad. C_C Frank and I single handedly brought what is currently our Massive Warfare server to a 291 ranking out of over 12,000 servers by constantly playing on it, seeding it and just being in it. Interacting with players, being available to slap fuckass players who were causing trouble, banning idiots who couldn't follow the rules. I would wake up at 5:00am to go to work and the server would be full, with a waiting list. It would be full 3 days, 4 days, 5 days in a row and people would literally complain to me on Battlelog that they couldn't get in. I was THRILLED. So we expanded into a second server to support capacity and now it sits there mostly empty. Servers and their population correlate directly with server rank. We need to rank them up. Plain and simple. Shit, even if we decide to operate an Operation Metro 24/7 Server, which are wildly popular for gunfights and quickly ranking up, I wouldn't care. We need to be packed to the brim to make a name for ourselves. If the servers are full the forums will be full, and then our name will grow organically. But it all starts with the servers. So I clearly got carried away with typing but I guess I've become emotionally involved with this community. It's hard not to when you're surrounded by a good group of dudes. So again. Let's step it up. How do we better ourselves? Ideas!!!! Need em. Want em. Let's go. Be creative. Ghost
Afraid to say it but we might need to make the CQB server 24/7 metro/Sien. As well, maybe we should reach out to the DontReviveMeBro community. Try and get a partnership going with them? www.dontrevivemebro.com
Great read dude, but yeah maybe reaching out to other communities aswell, doing some kind of advertising.=-COFEE
I agree with the advertising, yet its not s easy as it seems. I have contacted IGN and joystiq numerous times. Unfortunately without a real good story they dont care lol. A merger with a big name like Dont revive me bro wont end well. They are far to big to want to wear NNG tagz. It will end with us kissing ass and moving over to their community and fore-fitting the NNG name. This is just my opinion but it doesn't seem like a realistic idea unless we want to kill NNG. That being said, I am doing everything I can to get the name out there. The facebook page wont be useful unless we get our name out there as it is. We have say on 6 "likes" for about a month. So unless we can push it more it wont go anywhere. I agree with Sheets, its going to start with the servers. If we fill the servers and gain more fans we will make the community larger.
