Today's deployment of Catastrophe X enables the top-rated players feature discussed in my last post, which is available from the main Catastrophe X screen in the game. The ranking is designed to display all players whose rating exceeds a certain threshold -- currently 1050, but I will increase this threshold as player activity rises. Since battle activity continues to be sparse, there are few commanders shown in the top-ranked list right now.
Looking forward, I will soon begin to devote more time and resources to publicizing Catastrophe X. To-date, I have invested very little effort into building a player base. This has been intentional -- it seems wasteful to invest time and money into promotion when lack of key features means that player retention will be very low. I have now filled the most obvious gaps in functionality (accounts, savable detachments, profiles, ratings, rankings), and at this point I think the game mainly needs better community functions in order to adequately engage new players (proper forums and offline messaging in particular). I will focus on these community features over the coming days and weeks, and once in place I will make developing a player base my number one priority.
Nice game, Aaron. I see you're the only one on the top list for now ;)
ReplyDeleteThink i'll be sticking around.
-Samareye
P.S. You should make comments able to be posted anonymously (quite possibly, not every player has or wants to give out one of these accounts).
Thank you for the kind words -- I'm glad you like what you see so far. Like I said in the post, I'm planning to ramp up promotion within the next couple weeks, so there should soon be more competitors online. Hopefully at that point I will no longer be the only player on the top list, prestigious as that may be.
DeleteAs for the blog commenting issue, you have a good point. I've enabled anonymous commenting.
Also, I should have in-game forums released within the next few days, so be sure to drop by for discussion.
Cheers!