Goonhub
01-12-2016, 05:55 PM
SA is less traveled than reddit or 4chan. The initial project came from SA, but new people tend to come from reddit and 4chan. This leaves us with an aging playerbase that doesn't really have time for 2d spaceman fartsims.
Goonstation has a bad rep for various reasons, both founded and unfounded.
Bans on bigotry, sexuality and memelords takes out a strong (and dumb) demographic. Probably the most heavily populated playergroup for SS13.
New players tend to choose the most populated server. In any game. Keeping out the aforementioned knocks down the player count, which knocks it down further. On 'late' times you can watch as one bad round can take a population from 20 to 5 for the rest of the 'night'.
It's funny, really. Thanks to the new station and new lighting I'm seeing new people. When talking to them they always seem to mention how much more stuff there is to do here and how fun it is; always sounding as if they are shocked. I came here because of Plump's letsplays, so goonstation has always been SS13 for me. If, however, I wasn't an avid watcher of voltronarmy LPers -- and if I actually managed to find SS13 some other way, probably 4chan -- I would almost certainly not be playing on goonstation. I probably would have hopped on another server, thought SS13 was shit (shittier than I think it is now, anyways) and never looked back. Hell, even with goonstation it took 3 or 5 times to make me stick around.
I think that a concerted effort on some sort of social media will be necessary to pump new blood into goonstation. I just don't that adding things, no matter how amazing (even poo), will bring in the numbers.
Goonstation has a bad rep for various reasons, both founded and unfounded.
Bans on bigotry, sexuality and memelords takes out a strong (and dumb) demographic. Probably the most heavily populated playergroup for SS13.
New players tend to choose the most populated server. In any game. Keeping out the aforementioned knocks down the player count, which knocks it down further. On 'late' times you can watch as one bad round can take a population from 20 to 5 for the rest of the 'night'.
It's funny, really. Thanks to the new station and new lighting I'm seeing new people. When talking to them they always seem to mention how much more stuff there is to do here and how fun it is; always sounding as if they are shocked. I came here because of Plump's letsplays, so goonstation has always been SS13 for me. If, however, I wasn't an avid watcher of voltronarmy LPers -- and if I actually managed to find SS13 some other way, probably 4chan -- I would almost certainly not be playing on goonstation. I probably would have hopped on another server, thought SS13 was shit (shittier than I think it is now, anyways) and never looked back. Hell, even with goonstation it took 3 or 5 times to make me stick around.
I think that a concerted effort on some sort of social media will be necessary to pump new blood into goonstation. I just don't that adding things, no matter how amazing (even poo), will bring in the numbers.