Soldat is dying, how to revive it?

[scarface09]

You just admitted to hacking, and now you think you havn't done anything wrong?

[miketh2005]

Even if ads bring people to Soldat, how are we gonna get them to stay? As you said, I guess it's up to the developers.

That is up to taste, but at least the ads could bring people in.
I say, if you own a website or something, be a pal, advertise Soldat a little to help bring in traffic.

I put soldat in my sig in every forum I'med signed up at. Just get a little soldat userbar and hotlink it with a little description of what it is and its free and stuff, example:

2D Multi-Player Side Scrolling Shooter Game. Soldat. Click here, it's free! No sign up / registration required. Just download and play!

[Raphael]

You just admitted to hacking, and now you think you havn't done anything wrong?

Stop wasting everyones time and topic space Clownman & Bootz.

The Aus community has caught you hacking numerous times Clownman. You're in no position to preach on righteousness, even if it IS on a 2D game.

Both you and bootz can cut the crap now, let the thread stay on path now.


ALSO, I like mikeths idea, ^ simple but could help.

[croat1gamer]

Or even better.
DONT advert soldat with that way.
Only thing youll get is a few players for a week or two.
Link them to this to get possible players introduced into Soldat.

[scarface09]

You just admitted to hacking, and now you think you havn't done anything wrong?

Stop wasting everyones time and topic space Clownman & Bootz.

The Aus community has caught you hacking numerous times Clownman. You're in no position to preach on righteousness, even if it IS on a 2D game.

Both you and bootz can cut the crap now, let the thread stay on path now.


ALSO, I like mikeths idea, ^ simple but could help.

Wtf are you on about you tool. I've never hacked ever. Don't put words in my mouth. Did you sign up here too Raphael to cause more flamewars? Go back to ur own corrupted forum dumbass.

[D4NG3R NL]

to make soldat more attractive to public, they should at least:

1, Utilize higher resolutions better.
2, Increase the texture dimensions and make them higher detailed.
3, Increase the size of everything! make 800x600 the new standard.
4, Better connection support (Latency's in soldat are quite high)


1, I am currently registered to soldat *yay* and I tried to use a higher resolution.. I tried 800x600, it lags like hell!

2, Fits to number 3 very well

3, 800x600 would be a GREAT update! better character details. Weapon's could be better detailed, the surrounding EVERYTHING. If you use a higher detail right now, everything just becomes smaller...

4, For whatever reason soldat has rather high pings... on other games when I connect to America my ping is still about 60. on soldat it reaches 150+ by ease!
(altho you could still use 640x480)
 

[Ragnaros]

Even if ads bring people to Soldat, how are we gonna get them to stay? As you said, I guess it's up to the developers.

That is up to taste, but at least the ads could bring people in.
I say, if you own a website or something, be a pal, advertise Soldat a little to help bring in traffic.

I put soldat in my sig in every forum I'med signed up at. Just get a little soldat userbar and hotlink it with a little description of what it is and its free and stuff, example:

2D Multi-Player Side Scrolling Shooter Game. Soldat. Click here, it's free! No sign up / registration required. Just download and play!

hey miketh, you know, thats a good idea. the first 100% good idea in this thread. ill follow your advice and ill use your userbar at othr forums.

really useful idea, lets use it!

[Shard]

I run soldat at 1024x768. 800x600 looks gay if its not in window mode. It looks better at higher resolutions.

I agree with mikethes, good idea.

And if scareface and boots would drop it that would be nice.

[miketh2005]

I run soldat at 1024x768. 800x600 looks gay if its not in window mode. It looks better at higher resolutions.

I agree with mikethes, good idea.

And if scareface and boots would drop it that would be nice.

Me too.

Thanks to everyone who likes my idea, finally something good is coming out of this topic.

More ideas, please!

I agree with D4NG3R NL, just a change like that will greatly increase the graphics! There has been a post like this awhile back...

Or even better.
DONT advert soldat with that way.
Only thing youll get is a few players for a week or two.
Link them to this to get possible players introduced into Soldat.

That should be on the homepage...

[Boots]

I'm going to add that userbar to every forum I visit (that isn't soldat related) to sign up . Good idea there miketh.

And if scareface and boots would drop it that would be nice.

Sorry for kinda' hijacking the thread :p.

[Shard]

Its cool, we all get carried away sometimes . At least we got something good out of it!

[miketh2005]

Its cool, we all get carried away sometimes . At least we got something good out of it!

What was that, again?

[F4||3N]

http://www.funmessenger.com/ (free chat site)

Go there. Spam! It doesn't matter, everyone else does.
I use to go on there a few years ago when I was bored.
No need to reg just type username etc... and there's generally a couple hundred people in there. Sometimes 1000+

Or make a bot to spam. Everyone else does! Just don't trust anyone.... You'll quite often find old men pretending to be 14.... LUL!

[L[0ne]R]

Go there. Spam! It doesn't matter, everyone else does.

Or make a bot to spam. Everyone else does! Just don't trust anyone.... You'll quite often find old men pretending to be 14.... LUL!

I hope you were just being sarcastic.
Spam = low and cheap. Not only it will annoy other users, but it will create a bad impression about Soldat. Good games shouldn't fall so low as to rely on spam to attract players.

[F4||3N]

Actually.... No....

Being sarcastic is against the law.

It's not a forum.... No problem spamming.

Nothing extreme. I mean, go there a few times a day (to reach all time zones) and send a few links!

Or, you can be extreme. It's not like people aren't going to play it if you spam Soldat.
The more links you spam, the greater chance people are going to click it.

But don't just spam the link. Explain what it is!

[L[0ne]R]

Well personally, I stay away from what's being spammed on purpose (even if I really do feel like clicking the link). And maybe I'm not the only one.
In chats it's more "allowed" simply because chats are real-time and harder to moderate. I think spamming in chat is just as bad as in forums.
And you can't really go "not extreme" with spamming. Spam is either extreme or useless (but IMO in both cases it's still not a good thing).

[Shard]

I sent a text message advertising soldat into the Metro, a few news paper looked at by thousands of Dubliners per day. I just hope they post it.

Why not try stuff like this. Whats wrong with a little real world advertising

[L[0ne]R]

I sent a text message advertising soldat into the Metro, a few news paper looked at by thousands of Dubliners per day. I just hope they post it.

Why not try stuff like this. Whats wrong with a little real world advertising

Interesting idea, but I doubt many gamers read newspapers. :S

[jrgp]

After talking to someone at school today, I really doubt Soldat is actually dying.

So, my classmate and I started talking about computer stuff in Networking class, and I mentioned Soldat. He said he heard of it and it was "a really really old game that's extremely customizable and I hate dealing with people bragging about how modded their installation is."

I still don't feel Soldat is dying since many people know of it and play it still. Not all of them play online though.

[demoniac93]

I had about an hour with bots today, just to train the weapons I'm too weak with to train them online, with Bloody soil, necromancide, and gore playing...Them were the times