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 Concerning ETNAM
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| FiReWall |
Posted on 21-01-2012 16:50
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 Super Admin  Posts: 1098 Joined: 19.04.2009 |
Dear members, Recently I have been receiving various questions about ETNAM. I think some explannation from my side may be needed. To understand the whole story and the concept of my ideas we will have to go back to the roots of the problem. Since the the foundation of {GOD} and the departure of some members, thing were not like before. The following weeks the server population descreased enormously. It is no lie that players like Romike and Dracon were highly active members on the server. They insured a certrain minimum population and attracted other members and visitors to the server. I've attempted to raise the activity grade on the server by several ways, for example putting up a big campaigncycle with various new maps. The decrease of players during the exams in December and June is quite normal, this is a fact that I and most of you know by experience from the previous three years. During this period I've switched back one time to ETNAM because nobody expect me Ludo (Kelfoutoir) and Badwarrior were online. We wanted to play ETNAM and because no other visitors were attending I just simply changed the command line and restarted the server. That evening we enjoyed playing ETNAM and were possibly thinking about bringing it back as refreshment and new start. However at the end of the evening I switched back to Jaymod and everything was back to normal. Few days later in the evening the same people were online and we played again some ETNAM, now the server filled up quite well in no time. I had to go and I couldn't just simply change the command line and restart the server because like 14 people were playing. So I had to change it next morning but because of the increased population I was quite impressed and sticked with ETNAM. ... just untill Christmas came. As most of you know, in our clan it's a tradition that 1 week before Christmas we launch our Xmas mod until Three Kings Day. So that was the reason for changing the mod back to Jaymod. However, the exams were over and the vacation was started, the server population didn't rise at all. The days before the Xmas mod was launched we had some quite busy evening in a row on ETNAM. After Three Kings day I decided to put back on ETNAM for several reasons, which I will explain now. As economist I compare the game Enemy Territory often with a market, a place were suppliers (gameservers) and demanders (players) meet each other. At the beginning, 29 May 2003, this market had an excess demand. Every sever had plenty of customers or demanders of the product (aka the players) active. Time by time more servers came and supply was equal to demand. Now it's very important to understand that every product has a it's own product life cyclus. Each product life cyclus can be divided in the following cycles: introduction, growth, maturity and decline. The decline in the PLC is very simple to explain, you have the introduction of new games and alternatives... In these times of decline the suppliers of the product (gameservers and the ET community) have been inventive and came up with something different which kept the demanders consuming their products (playing ET) this is where the submarkets arose. And with this submarkets I mean mods like Jaymod and No Quarter. But as you already can imagine every submarket has again a PLC and yet since 2 years jaymod is in decline. What does happen if a product in in the decline phase, this means that only very few customers will keep consuming (playing the game) and quite alot suppliers will leave the market because there are less customers and the competition is too big (too much servers). So what happens; only the few big suppliers will remain active in the submarket. This is the current situation where we are in. The big suppliers (clan's like F|A and France [WOOD]) are pushing little suppliers (like we) out of the market. There marketshare will only keep growing in this decreasing submarket. So we, as little supplier, have to reorientate our strategy inorder to survive in the market of Enemy Territory. Step by step this submarket will be monopolized so I think there is no way we could ever build up back marketshare in this market, without without an exogenous market shock occurs. I believe it's only possible when we come up with something totaly different than our competitors are offering. And this means we will be creating our own submarket and try to control this market. And as you all know this submarket is ETNAM. Once you've created your own submarket and you control it, you have created your own market segment with customers who are not influenceable by the behaviour of suppliers in the other submarkets. And eventually you will create your own monopoly. I also believe that ETNAM has great potential and is compared to jaymod much better because of the new features and different style of playing. To illustrate this practically that creating submarkets work, I can refer you to the mod ULTRA ET. Ultra ET has been developed by StaatsSchutz and only runs on their server. In the past you also had Parazit who had their own modification of Call of Duty running on ET. These servers had their own players who were not influenceable because they only came for that specific mod. To complete my discourse I realy want to underscore that sticking with Jaymod was not an option. Believe me the inactivity would remain and less and less clanmembers would show up, so I would have to shut down the community within few month's. On the 17th of january I had to pay the server and I want all of you to know that I have seriously doubted to close down the entire community. The reason why I did not do this is because we are a very close group of friends and I could not abandon you like this. Now, I hope you respect and understand my decision why I switched back to ETNAM. To the people who are lagging on ETNAM I want to tell that VS| (Veterans soldiers, developers of ETNAM) is working on a patch that would reduce the lag and fix various bugs. As soon as the patch has been finished we will be running this patch, so hopefully it will solve your problems. Last but not least, the people who are willing to stay with clan and have good intentions, I want to ask your contribution to make ETNAM a succes. The best way in contributing is to play as much as you can on our server. Don't mind about the rating you gained or the kills you have made. Just be as much active as you can and make sure the rules are followed up, that is your contribution. I know and some other members also know that ETNAM has a great potential but it needs some effort from our side aswell. I have already set up a new campaign including 12 maps. We are also going to lower the requirements for new recruits, new applicants will only need 5.000 xp to apply in the near future. Only activity on the website and server will be required, skill or potential adminskill will be less important during the votingprocess. My motive: ETNAM and BELGIUM FRAGGERS ARE HERE TO STAY. I hope this message / thread has helped with answering some of your questions and has removed any doubt you had. Yours sincerely, FIREWALL CEO BELGIUM FRAGGERS  |
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