I was thinking about all of this and the thought that maybe, and just maybe, HostingBuddy is a major cause of all of this. Another thing I remember from when the community was still strong is that there was no HB and people would spam 'host shopper! host shopper!' in #AG. It was annoying but, they were forced to join our games and learn from their fellow wormers. If they wanted to host their own games they went to any number of websites that offer solutions and hosting alternatives instead of !host whatever.
Im sure we can all agree that HB games are dreadful anyway -- most random maps are bad, all of the schemes are made by trolls -- maybe there is a way we could get rid of it, at least for a period of time?
++ Thanks for all the support up in here!
Dark One: good call on the wormtube link- Ive added it. Cueshark video is made of lulz! xD
i agree about hostingbuddy but i also think that for now it's a very useful feature. the problem is just the community organization.
we should have a better "homepage" -> and with this i don't mean the TUS homepage, but just the way that newcomers "see" us.
why do you think that nlF had so much success back in times? i remember when i started worms: pretty much EVERYONE that was starting to play w:a was a nlF wannabe. well because they had a great "homepage". they looked cool, noob friendly but hard to join! so you would have to train a lot to ask the ambassadors a tryout. all was written down on their site, a lot of videos and nice gifs were available, all was fluid and working.
we want something like this. a youtube channel will bring people, a good place where to learn things about wa is needed.
but we don't need to do everything focused on noobs, we should just do the most simple thing ever: showing what we have. if people will get interested in this game they simply will start to follow the channel and learn things from there!
here we go! this is the "homepage" i was talking about. a good way to open the doors to the world.