It's been interesting reading the debates on how to attract more players. what I feel is more important, and any marketing company will tell you, that it's more important to keep your existing player base than getting new players.

I'm busy. I run a business, I volunteer for community groups, until recently I was the local equivalent of the town mayor, I'm involved on the periphery of state politics, I have a son that's 12 living 180km away that I try to see whenever I can and occasionally I have a social life. I play star sonata when I get a chance, normally in the evenings for a couple of hours.

I run three accounts. No single character above 3k, My main at lvl 2500-ish,a sniper a bit less, a couple of characters above 1k. 8 or so under. My internet speeds available means it's very difficult for me to MC so I generally don't.

I've just returned from being away for Easter. My gals have been destroyed and although there are a couple of bases left, the vast majority are no longer there. so I asked myself, "why am I doing this?".

So for the second time, I've just cancelled my subscriptions. I don't give a toss of those that rant about "care bear game" and "PVP/BvB is part of the game", it's certainly not why I play. I can't be on here 24/7 like some seem to be and it's seeming that unless I can devote that amount of time to the game there's not a whole lot of point playing at all.

If the game wants to grow, it needs to take care of the mid range players. The silent players that just do little bits here and there and still pay. It's not. So I'm outta here and will find something else.

It's been interesting reading the debates on how to attract more players. what I feel is more important, and any marketing company will tell you, that it's more important to keep your existing player base than getting new players.

I'm busy. I run a business, I volunteer for community groups, until recently I was the local equivalent of the town mayor, I'm involved on the periphery of state politics, I have a son that's 12 living 180km away that I try to see whenever I can and occasionally I have a social life. I play star sonata when I get a chance, normally in the evenings for a couple of hours.

I run three accounts. No single character above 3k, My main at lvl 2500-ish,a sniper a bit less, a couple of characters above 1k. 8 or so under. My internet speeds available means it's very difficult for me to MC so I generally don't.

I've just returned from being away for Easter. My gals have been destroyed and although there are a couple of bases left, the vast majority are no longer there. so I asked myself, "why am I doing this?".

So for the second time, I've just cancelled my subscriptions. I don't give a toss of those that rant about "care bear game" and "PVP/BvB is part of the game", it's certainly not why I play. I can't be on here 24/7 like some seem to be and it's seeming that unless I can devote that amount of time to the game there's not a whole lot of point playing at all.

If the game wants to grow, it needs to take care of the mid range players. The silent players that just do little bits here and there and still pay. It's not. So I'm outta here and will find something else.

Have some determination guys. I've been wiped dozens of times, who cares? It's a game. If you never lose is it even fun or challenging?

I capped a couple gals and offered to return all the lost gear, return the kits, and pay for losses and grief. This offer was not utilized.

If this is true, and I am inclined to believe -13- on a matter like this, then I don't understand why the player is quitting.

Because you can't just cover up the material damage, and expect it to be enough reason for a player to continue playing like nothing happened. I'm surprised you out of all people don't see this, enkelin. You seem to forget the cost of investing time, effort and motivation in building. This cost can be nearly priceless to many players, and it seems to be so in this case, similar to many other less hardcore players (can I say casual players?).

Because you can't just cover up the material damage, and expect it to be enough reason for a player to continue playing like nothing happened. I'm surprised you out of all people don't see this, enkelin. You seem to forget the cost of investing time, effort and motivation in building. This cost can be nearly priceless to many players, and it seems to be so in this case, similar to many other less hardcore players (can I say casual players?).

I'm not that sympathetic to the cost in time incurred by setting up defenses and industry. Sure, if you have to do it every week it gets old fast, but we all do it once every 3-4 months as is. This guy would have had to do it twice instead.