Overview
Over time the activity of players is falling on a server. To prevent that from happen, I did give that some thoughts.
Introduction
Over time the activity of players is falling on a server. To prevent that from happen, I did give that some thoughts.
Reasons to stop playing on a Server
The community is not bond to each other.
The active players getting to far ahead with their technology and other are left behind.
The skills of the players are not relevant anymore.
The asteroid is usual destroyed after 10 days.
Keeping players
The most important thing is, don’t let the game be over in 10days. At that point all technologies are develop and average base building is finished. Most of my ideas comes back to slow down the game.
Increase Taxes to slow the game down. If everyone has to pay the same taxes, nothing would change. In the end of every trade, everyone would have the same amount of money in their pockets for their product.
We want to slow down the game and the people who set the pace are the most active people who play many hours every day. Not the ones who only play 1-2h or less.
The active players have all the highest technology’s and resources. So, they are the ones who need to slow down. We archive that, by letting them pay more taxes than anyone else!
There are 2 ways of paying taxes in my mind.
The first: Start the game with 0% taxes on Tier 0 and 1 items. Every higher item should be at 50% crafting taxes. Something very high. (50% for a very active player is still payable in small amounts for them and they can play slowly forward. For low active members it’s unpayable)
Now the Tier 2,3 and 4 items are expensive.
Now the World Leader give the community a big project. If they archive that, he can drop the taxes for the next item Tier list. Projects that come into my mind:
- Building roads all over the world, use the demographics law, to mark where they should be built (for cancel tier 2 taxes)
- Building bridges (for cancel tier 2 taxes)
- Reforest in demographics XY (for cancel tier 2 taxes)
- Build a main market street with 20 houses. Each house exactly 10×10 fields. So, the houses can be get claimed by players and be used as a shop. If someone claim more than that, use the law to unclaim his property (for cancel tier 2 taxes) (my favourite)
- Upgrade all roads to stone (for cancel tier 3 taxes)
- Upgrade all roads to asphalt (for cancel tier 4 taxes)
- Building a mine dumpster for all the tailings on the server… something nice looking (for cancel tier 4 taxes)
- Bull zone an area for a Stadium for the big Laser show, who will destroy the asteroid (for cancel tier 4 taxes)
The second: Start the game with 0% taxes on Tier 0 and 1 items. Every higher item should be at 50% crafting taxes. Something very high.
Then drop the taxes after some time. Like:
- dropping Tier 3 taxes after the world is 2 weeks old
- dropping Tier 4 taxes after the world is 3 weeks old
In the time they might wait for the droppings of the taxes. They can build a nice base, a road, helping other. I am sure there is always some work somewhere.
Sure, it might make some active players a bit angry. But this is only a small number of players compared to the number of players who have a use of it. Everyone can keep up and interact with each other on the same level!
While they wait till the tax for the next tier is gone, they can build something for everyone. So the world will look more beauty and impressive.
Projects can also make the community grow. They get into contact with other players by planning the projects. They talk and might become friends of the community.
You also can pay them money from the government for everyone who worked at a project. Just build a large standing sign near a project and let the players enter their names on it. After the work is done, make a law, that the government will pay those players a little of their money.
Punish Players
Is someone cutting all the trees and don’t seed new ones? Punish them! Does someone put his tailings on the surface? Punish them! Does someone did anything else stupid? Punish them! Let them pay more taxes for 3-4 days. Specially on tailings, they know they are doing something that they shouldn’t. So just punish them! Even if they don’t like it, they will feel guilty and will understand what happened. In best case they will feel even more connected to the server, because they will talk about that with the community.
Work for the government
The Government can make Contracts for the players, who will get payed for it, if they archive them. Let them build roads, houses, put items into a container, let them plant trees.
These also works for players to players. If you have some money, why not make a contract to build a road near your house and pay the player who build it? Let a chef deliver you food every day for money?
Don’t ignore people
Don’t ignore if they live far away. Even if they are on the other side of the planed, visit them sometimes. Even if you don’t have to. Take it easy, do some sightseeing. Watch out on the way, what the other players are building. Maybe you can pick up some items from the shops on the way or see some great work.
Building a community
Just talk to each other. Build a market somewhere, where the players getting into contact to each other. Easy said, hard done. ^^
Thanks for reading
So, just don’t rush to lasers. Build a cool base. Do some work with/ for others and have fun.