I think mostly you need to encourage a few people to stay as players.
When we first started out, I put up the mud on the mud connector, and
made 1 add to a net bbs. I ended up treating the first players like
kings. Not loading them eq or things like that, but rather, listened to
all their ideas, and actually implementing ones I liked right away.
Through this, the first players really liked AddictMUD, and in the
begining, we had a low of lows of a playerbase (maybe 5 online at a time
was considered amazing), and through word of mouth, we've grown a lot.
We don't always treat the players like kings anymore, but we still try
where we can, and are always helpful and willing to listen to players
when they have a problem, even if it's just to explain that there's
nothing we can do to help.
Word of mouth has worked great for us personally, peak times now are 40+
players online (we do allow multi's, but not too many people actally do
use more then 1 character online).
umm... as usual, I guess there's no point to my email :P
Well, I guess it's to treat your players the best you can, especially
when you only have 1 or 2 :)
They'll tell their friends, etc etc..
Brazil - Implementor if AddictMUD
addict.realms.org 4000
206.185.33.2 4000
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