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[MaGi kOz]

Maybe we should get Violence to write the letter.

[Mythril]

how am I the only one who thinks having a spike of thousands of new players at once trolling the shit out of us would ruin this game entirely? it takes years to get good at subspace anyway. all these newbies that everyone wants so bad wouldn't do shit but add lag to our weak server. the only player that I can think of who started after 2008 and actually played in twl is cres, and we all know how that ended. just let this shit die unless you wanna get beat by a bunch of faggots with names like ladygaga9999 in 5 years

[Mobey]

Anyway, I'm considering writing a letter to him. But now that I think about it, do we REALLY want to have the audience of this guy trying out our game? He makes a living off of being "SO RANDUM LAWL" and his audience would doubtless be worse... more than that, I don't know if he would take a well thought out letter seriously. I believe I'm a good writer and could whip up a good letter explaining the situation, but would a logical letter about a real problem be the kind of thing to send to someone who makes a living like that?

worth a try, seriously, who cares about the type of players this might bring in.. all they'll do is play pub for an hour here or there and some might even go on to play some TWD but that'll be it, they'll just be casual 'here and there' players just propping up numbers for hosted events. I think any boost in population right now is good population, considering a handful of them might even go on to become TWL starters but hey.. think I'm dreaming again.

[paradise!]

how am I the only one who thinks having a spike of thousands of new players at once trolling the shit out of us would ruin this game entirely? it takes years to get good at subspace anyway. all these newbies that everyone wants so bad wouldn't do shit but add lag to our weak server. the only player that I can think of who started after 2008 and actually played in twl is cres, and we all know how that ended. just let this shit die unless you wanna get beat by a bunch of faggots with names like ladygaga9999 in 5 years

so we are being picky about who comes into this game? are you kidding me?

i don't care if they are all dick lovin homogafs, as long they can pilot a ship and play pub/twd. Let them all have names like ladygaga999. I am sick and tired of seeing the same old people troll pub over and over again.

Honestly, the "let this shit die" idea is one we should consider only if all else fails. And if all else fails, i say we evenly distribute the thousands we have sitting the coffers to each member of the forum based on their post count: SUH SUH.

I believe that we need to just go all out with our advertising, take an aggressive approach. and if that doesn't work then at least we can say we tried, and we have one last pub party and then wake up the next morning and we bury this game in a Boromir from Lord Of the Rings type funeral,

[Downfall]

Myth, tw takes years to MASTER, but to get good enough to play twl? Nah would say these gaming viewers of his would have easy time learning enough since our zone is the simplest shit ever.

You know those guys who just have a knack for games, ya probably few of those guys will join and stick because they wanna overcome the shit talk, but all the guys who are constantly getting owned ( the nubs) will probably leave because of the shit talk from ppl aka izor (seen that guy harassing pub the other day)

[Jones]

if you get owned by izor you deserve to get harassed

mythril, what's the problem with new people? you just have to stop logging on

[Vatican Assassin]

cops liked every post in thread i don't think he knows how to work it

[MegamanEXE]

I decided to give the letter a shot, since if I don't, who will? It isn't final, but since it's a community action, I figured you guys would want to see it. Looks like copying it from OpenOffice removed some spaces. Those aren't my typos.




Dear TobyTurner,

I represent myself, the Trench Wars community, and the Subspace/Continuum community as a whole.

In the video “STUPID PUPPY you made apassing mention of Subspace. Since you referenced it like that, youmust not be aware of the current situation.

Subspace is still alive today, underthe name of “Continuum.” Unfortunately, the game has been dying for a long time, as old players leave, and no new players fill their places, since no one knows about the game anymore. Trench Wars, the largest zone in Continuum, used to draw 650+ players during the weekend, 500 during a weekday. Today, it struggles to break only 300 on a very busy weekend, and only averages around 180-190 players on the weekday. Other zones in Continuum are no different; Death Star Battle, a once thriving zone with 100 players daily, now has a playercount of less than 40, many of those idling or bots, meaning that the public arena there is effectively dead.

The game is hemorrhaging players, but we have few options. The largest problem we have is that we struggle first, to make our game known to other people since we are unable to advertise, and second, to keep new players from leaving when they start.

I personally have been on the receiving end of the latter; the person I talked to played the game for a few hours and left permanently. I feel that the reason is that people simply don't see the great value and inherent fun in the game. Theyare “turned off” by the 1990s era 2d graphics from the momentthey start the game from the first time, so they do not spend the time to learn the fundamentals of the game to see what it is reallylike under than old exterior.

As a Subspace veteran yourself, you know the value of the game. You know how fun it really is, since your eferenced it in your video. We players that have kept the game alivethis long – making it the oldest continually-run MMO in existence – share your nostalgic attitude to the game.

The reason I am contacting you is because we feel you can help us. You have connections to so manypeople in the YouTube community that merely talking about it for ashort time would make our beloved game well known to anyone whowatches your video.

We are not asking you to do much – asI said above, a mere reference in more detail than the one in “STUPIDPUPPY” would help us and the game immensely. You could perhaps gofurther than that if you wish, but any ideas would be yours to make,since you know best how to interact with your fans.

So, the prognosis for our game is bad.We are bleeding profusely, and it will be only a matter of timebefore we bleed out completely, leaving only the dedicated handful tokeep the spirit of our game alive. We need a transfusion of blood –a transfusion of new players, new people – to stay alive.

We hope that, upon reading this letter,you remember the good times you had on Subspace, which is nowContinuum.

The Continuum client can be downloadedat http://getcontinuum.com.

Thank you for your time.

Signed,

[Money]

ITS MY BIRTHDAY

[Mobey]

Megaman, I feel the letter is more than enough except maybe you should add some kind of monetary offer for using his channel/services for publicity, since he does make his living from these videos, its only fair we pay some sort of compensation from our advertising funds.

[Mobey]

P.s happy birthday money.

[stark]

Duh mob, give him spacebux for adverts.

[MegamanEXE]

Megaman, I feel the letter is more than enough except maybe you should add some kind of monetary offer for using his channel/services for publicity, since he does make his living from these videos, its only fair we pay some sort of compensation from our advertising funds.

And that would be under the jurisdiction of the guys in charge of the advertising funds, however much they would be willing to spend on that.

Duh mob, give him spacebux for adverts.

Hmmmmm...

[Exalt]

Myth, tw takes years to MASTER, but to get good enough to play twl? Nah would say these gaming viewers of his would have easy time learning enough since our zone is the simplest shit ever.

You know those guys who just have a knack for games, ya probably few of those guys will join and stick because they wanna overcome the shit talk, but all the guys who are constantly getting owned ( the nubs) will probably leave because of the shit talk from ppl aka izor (seen that guy harassing pub the other day)

Actually, I can think of a lot of people who only got good at this game BECAUSE they wanted to overcome the shit talk and beat the "elite" player's asses in. Quicksand and izor did more for TW during their time than a super nice squad like Disoblige ever did. Shit talk makes people want to get better, period.

I only started playing tw seriously when I played elim for the first time and I was getting raped by faggots like 2dragons, and shit talked by faggots like claws or w/e. I decided to make a good name, find a good squad, and get better.

[Money]

ur still delusional, nice