Yup! Just as Ps said. Also, many changes are coming. Bringing IC up to speed in our modern gaming times is a lot of work, but it's being accomplished.

I am up for a second sort of vip. The cash would go to the people working on ic!

Poptarts.

How is promotion of the game handled?

we sort of discussed a volunteer-based effort here: http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=153790 but it never really went beyond agreeing that it might be a good idea

maybe we should formally initiate something.  i'd hate to suggest an external forum, because those always seem to just die off.  mods, perhaps another forum specifically for promotion discussion?

We just don't want to promote a game that scares people away! First we want to do some upgrades to improve the likeability for new players, etc.

I miss the old forums for too. But I don't think the game is broken or out dated. Look at chess for petes sake. I'm really happy that ya developers are making changes and upgrades but  I still like the mechanics of the game (Not to say I'm against improvement cuz i'm all for it ) and I'm sure there are plenty of people who haven't discovered IC that would feel the same. As for folks leaving?  People just move on to other things in life and gaming. Once IC had  4-5 galaxies at a time including virgo. Mush of those filled galaxies was new players playing five or six rounds then finding something else. I'm sure many vets don't come back or stay from lack of players. The competitive feel is kinda disappearing with so few opponents. The forums are dead with so few posters. But these words are nothing new I guess.

One idea I had to breath a bit of life back in someday was to have pages for each player like FB. You can post pics up, have game history, a bio,  a wall and links to forum posting. maybe even the circle jerk like and dislike buttons of reddit.  This is the social networking age and IC was a part of that for many through out the years before FB. So keeping it competitive on the social level I think is key.  A big reason I come back to this game is not so much for the game but for the community and the social aspect. I'm an ex junkie and some times i'm not an ex.  When I have gone through periods of my life trying to get clean and away from my negative RL social groups I have turned to IC. It's helped a ton. The people I have met have been a boon to my well being and thank you so much  IC and  the ones that really  know  

I understand  you guys have some things in store for the site and want a more complete product before ya promote.  When that time comes I will be ready to help I'll spam reddit, FB COD what ever it takes.

Black fish, ps, the other developers, mods and the gamers, you guys are awesome keeping this place running and alive!

So I'll restate it here: "Black fish, ps, the other developers, mods and the gamers, you guys are awesome keeping this place running and alive!"

Me too, many times over!  Thanks everybody.

I'm just going to have to triple agree for guys who do this for nothing. Wonderful jobs by all!

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> The Riddler wrote:

> I will agree with Pie and Amspir on a few points.

1. Community is the primary reason I play. I built some good relationships in the 10+ years (off and on) that I have played and I still enjoy talking to those people.

2. The current Developer team is doing a great job at trying to help grow this game.

I know a lot of talk has gone on about what changes should be made, what should be added and all of that stuff, but I actually never see a poll put out for the players to vote on what they would like to see and would not like to see. Doing this may set things in stone to go ahead and push forward with a lot of the ideas brought forward.

This game could be really good again (people playing) if some things were done graphically, and promotionally i believe.

Riddler, you hit the nail on the head.

This game is fun, but it also feels like a game made when it was. It's got a great community of 'hardcores' but the problem is that it never really seemed to be advertised. It really never was 'out there.'

This is a better situation than a 'new game' has; you have loyal fans, who will join whatever game it's called whenever it's released, if only to see Primo's sig for the billionth damn time.

That said, imo, this game doesn't need a huge overhaul, it just needs new features. Why buy a VIP when all you really get is access to a 'hardcore' system you may never like playing in, and one useful in-game tool?!

Some additions I'd love to see:

1. VIP's have the ability to 'create' a game, once ever 6 mos, for up to 50 others.
2. VIP's have ability to access any amount of VIP games, normal accounts are capped at say one game.
3. The game gets boring when you've built all you can and are waiting on fleets to arrive. Speeding up a tick isn't likely, so more things to do, just random fun things, like say a minigame where you have a system's worth of planets and once a day you can 'choose one' and, for that day, you get a fun bonus, weather it's a population growth bonus, or a research bonus. It'd just give more stuff to do instead of 'boredom time.'
4. Bring back the old forums. NAO!
5. Make fighting over a planet more interactive. Atm it's just 'overwhelm the enemy,' but if you made it so that when you drop in to attack, you got a little screen where you had to move your troops, some to kill the portal (if there is one), others to take out lasers. You can set this before, but it'd make it more tactical than 'I have 100x your army, I win!'