Ibrahim wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Have been reading through the celandra archives, and noticed again that 
> the Celandra game used to have a much larger number of players.
> 
> I am wondering then, how we might go about recruiting more players into 
> the game (for added vitality)?
> 
> Ideas?

I don't have many, I'm afraid. I agree, though, that it's a concern--but 
on the other hand, fewer players makes processing actions go faster.

Part of the problem is that PBEMs have been losing ground to MMORPGs for 
years, I think; but another part of it is that, let's face it, 
Interactive History is a little esoteric.

We've created (especially in the last year or so) a dense, interlocking 
mythos which is spread out over at least four webpages and countless 
emails. This can make it it hard for outsiders to come in: a newbie 
joins up and says "I want to do 'X'" only to be told that he or she 
can't because 'Y' happened ten game years ago.

One thing which we might consider: as Jason said in his "Movers and 
Shakers" post, we're about to hit 50 game years. Perhaps we should take 
a hiatus to spend some time concentrating *all* Celandran information 
onto the Main Phoenyx pages, updating and reorganizing as needed. As it 
stands, a new player looking for a culture to play would go to the 
Tripod pages, and the Cultural information there is seriously out of 
date. Also, we might want to put a link to the Celandra Archives in a 
prominent place on the Qaiyore pages.

We should also consider updating our blurb on the Phoenyx Game page, and 
we perhaps should try to forge more connections with the greater Phoenyx 
gaming community.

Andrew

> Ibrahim
> 
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