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bouncer
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Old 10-12-2010 , 18:20   [REQ] Generate more server traffic
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K well I'm not too sure how this would exactly work yet, so do give your own input/ideas as well

I had an idea but its very vague on if it would actually work or how it would work.

The root of building a community would be by generating traffic to the game servers. Well what if you could somehow have the players in the server do it for you and in return reward them automatically with vip or something?

I thought of maybe having a web panel where users enter steam/profile ids of their friends and submit it to be entered into a database.

The database then understands that these friends are friends of this certain user.

When the user's friends join the server, he earns a point. If they play X hours he might also get a point for that each hour/minute/second, whatever it may be.

I can't think of any other way currently to do this, maybe you guys can come up with better ideas?

Also if BOB for example added John as his friend, John therefore cannot add BOB as his friend, otherwise they'd both be cheating the system so to speak. John would have to add new friends who haven't added him before.

Again, this is a thread to post your ideas and discuss this. I'm pretty sure this would benefit all.
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Old 10-12-2010 , 20:13   Re: [REQ] Generate more server traffic
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You'd end up with people spamming your database with loads and loads of steam ids, hoping those people showed up randomly. They might even just type status every once in a while to get a list of steam ids for people who already play on that server to add as friends.

The obvious way to get around that would be a referral program, but everyone hates that shit, and I would avoid your server if I knew it used a system like that.

The best way would be to have some web deal scrape a user's friends list and what for people that are actually that person's friend. But, if you are building a community, they are going to make friends to play on your server, so I don't know how you could fairly make that work.
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Old 10-12-2010 , 20:17   Re: [REQ] Generate more server traffic
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well yeah you could just restrict to not be able to add people who already played on the server before. We track every steam id that plays on our server.

What ideas would you have in mind to generate traffic?
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Old 10-12-2010 , 20:49   Re: [REQ] Generate more server traffic
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How about not over powering you VIP's..... and some custom content that is not public... and get info from the players that do come to your servers..
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Old 10-12-2010 , 20:52   Re: [REQ] Generate more server traffic
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what you mean not overpowering? giving vip days was just a suggestion (not perma vip)
or could give loyalty points or something.
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