We need to rethink some things | Page 1 | Clammy Nostolgia Game Memorium | Guild Forums

Kali Sword
Vice Captain

Offline

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:34 pm

Ok... So this week didn't go too well with game sign ups either due to late postings, or lack of people getting the chance to see the sign up sheet...

This is a great idea... maybe if we had thousands of people in our guild. Which we don't. Foot traffic is light during the week and heavier on the weekends. I think perhaps rethinking the game scheduling would be best.

Here's my offer:

We have TWO games a week. Slowly progressing from the one game a week that we had before. We were able to pull together a partial game on Monday but really that didn't work out too well.

With only two games we can hopefully get the people that can't make it to one game to make it to the second.

I don't know if back to back games would get confusing or if they would actually be better... :S

Use the poll please to decide which day other than Friday that we should have our second game.

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:48 pm

Ok I know Clammy had another thread where we were discussing this ( http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=12159085) but I really think this needs further contemplation because this week was kinda hard to get many people to see the sign up sheets.

And there wasn't a sign up sheet for a game today so that kinda sucks. I didn't do it and I don't think any body else really remembered. Because this is four days a week that we are setting up games and I don't know if everyone quite understood that or not. :S

Kali Sword
Vice Captain

Offline

Slope-Intercept
Crew

Offline

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:07 am

In the first few days of the guild or so we almost contantly had games going on.
I really think the problem is not having enough devoted chess players. Hopefully, through this upcoming chess tournament (See announcement I posted), We'll be able to recruit some more players into our guild so we can have some complete games.

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:28 am

[Nothing is good or bad...]

The chess in Towns has lost its novelty slightly. Perhaps that may be why it is getting harder to get people to be enthusiastic about the games? I figured it would be harder to organize this as time went on... we need a plan to establish some staying power.

[...but thinking makes it so.]

SwordsmanChris

Offline

Slope-Intercept
Crew

Offline

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:31 pm

SwordsmanChris

[Nothing is good or bad...]

The chess in Towns has lost its novelty slightly. Perhaps that may be why it is getting harder to get people to be enthusiastic about the games? I figured it would be harder to organize this as time went on... we need a plan to establish some staying power.

[...but thinking makes it so.]

Hmm...

Well, whenever the chess boards in towns were first established there were tons of people on them all the time. This was probably mostly because they were new and interesting. But, we must remember that gaia also advertised it with an announcement. If we could get them to advertise Gaia Chess somewhere then we'd probably be able to get more people who want to play it.

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:32 am

i can only think of one thing... remeber that chess turnament that is going to happen... ( i dont know if this is posable) could we ask gaia to help with a anoucement to all about the turniment, the money, the guilds... all that so it goes to all?....

if not then how about someone take screenshots or a gaia video to gaia staff when the turniment is over and ask them to post that with a link on how to join the fun and excitement of the next turniment (and have one like.... mabie once a month or once every two months..) that would show we are serious with playing against multiple teams...

any change to these ideas?.... any coments? just post it!

Sake_Chun

Shirtless Shopper

7,700 Points

300
200
250

Offline

The Clammy Avenger
Captain

Chatty Dabbler

Offline

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:10 am

I think the first thing to try is a massive effort to get new members. I mean, if we had five bajillion members, we could probably scrap together a proper game every week. sweatdrop

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:54 am

sakeXbrat

i can only think of one thing... remeber that chess turnament that is going to happen... ( i dont know if this is posable) could we ask gaia to help with a anoucement to all about the turniment, the money, the guilds... all that so it goes to all?....

if not then how about someone take screenshots or a gaia video to gaia staff when the turniment is over and ask them to post that with a link on how to join the fun and excitement of the next turniment (and have one like.... mabie once a month or once every two months..) that would show we are serious with playing against multiple teams...

any change to these ideas?.... any coments? just post it!

Yeah that would definetly give us a boost. Having gaia admin/devs really involved with this would be sweet! And because this is losing novelty (but they are keeping the chess boards) we do need to spruce it up a little with an extra jolt to the ol' system.

Kali Sword
Vice Captain

Offline

Welcome to Gaia! ::

Gaia Guilds

The Gaian Chess Organization

Quick Reply

More Information