Player Retention

Awesome, thanks.

 

welcome to "kill 10 sharks without dying" all over again

 

Couldn't we try adding achievements to the game?

Yes, I know its not cod nor an FPS game.
But I think having levels based on XP.
You can accumulate XP by killing other players or capping the opposite teams flag (Also with other activities) such as

Achievement Unlocked : Get a double kill using a bomb! XP + 100.
I think adding stuff like this could really be a noob magnet
making them stay long enough to get hooked onto KAG

 

XP would be kinda neat, their are those people who want to build a reputation.

 

That's deep, like a bowl of lasagna.

 

now what is this yagger please explain

 

People spread rumors that arcrave got his shark head by killing ten sharks with only using a sword. The sharks also had to be on the same server and couldn't take damage from anyone but him.

 

From my 10 years experience running game servers I can tell you for sure that XP and achievements brings and keeps players in a game. Check out Wolfenstein. After all these years and still has a large player base.

 

Currently, the only thing to achieve is competence / skill. People spend a bunch of time to achieve this -- only to see it disappear in one of those 'balance' updates?
@Geti is quite ignorant. It's almost cute.

 

Imo, players are still playing on a game for several reasons :

• Cosmetics, achievements (unique player)
• Fun with others players
• Challenges (cws, gathers or tournaments aka ESL for example)

Atm, there is a lack of a real competitive scene. We need some tournaments or leagues for several years. Gather could be really addictive too (like the previous classic gather). There are atm more clans talking than scheduling any real clan war. A ladder system could be interesting.

 

Clan wars seem to be more common nowadays and that upcoming tournament

But leveling and achievements are things to work towards

On the scoreboard you can see their level and if you reach a certain level you get a symbol of some sort

Would be cool but I doubt it will get implemented

 

i don't think you know what "cute" means

gather is mostly for old, experienced players. newbies would almost certainly get roflstomped in gather.

i can tell from my own experience, that achievements do help keeping players around for longer. when i bought ace of spades i quickly grew bored and soon i was only playing to unlock as many achievements as possible and move along. but AoS is a shitty game, the more you play it, the more you know it. this is totally inverted in KAG - at first it seems bad, because you are having your ass rekt, but when you are getting better the game is also getting better. if a player buys KAG, but doesnt like at first, he might want to get achievements and be done with it. but in the process he might get better at KAG and like it eventually

 

@Geti
What do you think about levels?

 

its how i got into it too XD

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remember the bit were they said that there wasnt many australian servers

 

Unban all hackers, trolls, and griefers, disable bans on all servers, and announce it.

 

Peeps would be "boosting" like no tommorow