[Black Wolf]

How can I be the first to mention F2S on this entire thread...?

[Knight Templar]

the first of ... six possible?

[Xelion]

excellent idea Unknown Target

BUT you'll need interesting content that keeps your user coming back again and again, for example a community effort on some sort of project and new visuals perhaps .

Personally I think a unique online experience would be most entertaining!

[Hunter]

We had too much history of downtown BW, now they've lost their way.

[Flipside]

Yep, but all that is fixed, and it's not just a matter of having these sites, as KT mentioned, it's a question of people actually visiting and participating in them as well Hunter can't MAKE people go to F2S.

[Knight Templar]

But the U.S. Federal Government can!

[Hunter]

Maybe some free gifts

[an0n]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Because if and when that place goes down (saay, GS terminates our hosting, or the admins decide to move on, or some freaky **** like that) we'll have a sort of "bomb shelter" to fall back on.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

If GS decided to axe HLP then I'm guessing they'd just dump some banners on it and use the traffic to pay for a dedicated server. If that didn't work, the Admins would be gouged for the cash to pay for hosting. And if that didn't work then some fool with space and band-width, like me or Stealth, would host it.

And if the place has gotten so screwed that I pass up the opportunity to buy my way into power then I doubt anyone will be much bothered about it dying anyway.

See. No problems.

[Drew]

Originally posted by an0n
fool with space and band-width, like me or Stealth, would host it.

or me. If you read my last post in here.....

[an0n]

You realise the massive amount of MySQL space, disk-space, bandwidth and system resources that HLP consumes, right?

[Gloriano]

and all that hard work you must do Drew

anyway if HLP fall's i try help too to get it back

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
...say, if HLP goes down, the entire community isn't shut down for the duration of the time it takes for it to get back up.

Dude, what're you thinking?!? HLP down time is the most productive hours in any MODder's week!

[an0n]

True. I get more done when I can't access HLP (for various reasons).

[Knight Templar]

Ja.

HLP is probably is the leading reason why I don't do any homework until 8 or 9 each night. That's normal though, right?

[01010]

Pfft, I never did any homework at all. That's what school was for.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by an0n
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

If GS decided to axe HLP then I'm guessing they'd just dump some banners on it and use the traffic to pay for a dedicated server. If that didn't work, the Admins would be gouged for the cash to pay for hosting. And if that didn't work then some fool with space and band-width, like me or Stealth, would host it.

And if the place has gotten so screwed that I pass up the opportunity to buy my way into power then I doubt anyone will be much bothered about it dying anyway.

See. No problems.

What, you expect that giving us hosting would mean you'd get any form of say?

[an0n]

Well I would have complete control over every last little bit of information passing through the server, so: Yeah.

[Setekh]

As for expanding the FS community... I think "necklacing" is the way. One by one, we bring people in. I'd rather not have a funnel effect - things tend to change direction and leave their roots uncontrollably that way. That's what I invited all the early HLPers myself, by single emails. Not everyone responded positively, but those who did came and stayed.

[deep_eyes]

Originally posted by Setekh
As for expanding the FS community... I think "necklacing" is the way. One by one, we bring people in. I'd rather not have a funnel effect - things tend to change direction and leave their roots uncontrollably that way. That's what I invited all the early HLPers myself, by single emails. Not everyone responded positively, but those who did came and stayed.

I agree, we should be hitting all the "planet-" websites for newbies interested in space sims, and other communities who have active interests in games like fs2.

even programing wise to push for better coding etc.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Setekh
As for expanding the FS community... I think "necklacing" is the way. One by one, we bring people in. I'd rather not have a funnel effect - things tend to change direction and leave their roots uncontrollably that way. That's what I invited all the early HLPers myself, by single emails. Not everyone responded positively, but those who did came and stayed.

I heard a great example once, about different methods of spreading a bit of news. If you, every day, told 1000 people this bit of news, it would take one million days, or 2739 years, to reach the whole of China.

But if you told one person the first year, then the next year both you and the first person told one person each, then the 3rd year the four people told one more person each, etc... how long would it take to tell the one billion in China?

30 years.