Save NordInvasion!

[SaxonCamel]

[quote author=Mr_Moustashio link=topic=42796.msg229407#msg229407 date=1430454878]

Now regarding the original thread topic if you want to save NI you need to give the community what they want, since warband and NI are both slowly dying games you really can't afford to turn so many players off this mod by a few nerfs (mostly kiting) since I can guarantee that there are a hell of a lot more people who are against these nerfs than there are for it.

Exactly this is what i think!
but you can decide if you would like that NI die faster then it is dying now.
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I believe that some of us will have to face the fact that the community won't get everything it wants (or at least the what the majority wants). We, the players, will demand things, but at the end of the day, the developers would know (or at least we can assume they know) what can be implemented practically, what should be removed and what not because they're the ones that defined the vision and purpose of the mod, they're the ones with the statistics and the metrics, and they're the ones that have to do the work in implementing changes. We have to take into account the context of NI - there are no private servers, everything is 'publicly owned', everything is administrated by a select few - why? because this game is loot based, and looting has to be regulated to prevent abuse and be kept fair. This presents a number of problems, including the fact that 'hive mind' mentality persists: everybody does everything the same way, everybody conforms to the same rules, everybody does the same type of strategy and method in a run and some will eventually get bored of the monotony. I am not saying that this is necessarily wrong and has to change, rather that this a stark difference to say, other succesful mods such as Napoleonic Wars for an example - every regiment and every server has its own way of doing things. We simply have to take this into account and realise why there are conflicts of interest in this mod, why people have very different views and why we need to have threads such as these.

Should the devs listen to what the community wants? Most of the time, yes. Should the players take into account the changes the devs already have in mind for us? IMO yes.

All games/mods are flawed; we have established this already. What can we, as a player base, do to prevent this game from dying?

• As we have highlighted before, recruit people from other mods; there is an issue of player progression and it seems the devs are taking this into account; the rest of us have to make new player integration easier. IMO simply not being hostile towards them is a simple and effective step. The next step is harder, which is creating a culture of tolerance, inclusion and playing for fun.
  
• Donate. Clearly there is a money problem with this mod - is there much for the mod to offer to donators? IMO not too much - perhaps there needs to be a rethink in donator privileges, such as allowing players to switch items of equal stats, and many more textures and skins to suit our vanity. I am not sure, to be honest at these are just some ideas off the top of my head. Maybe that topic needs a new thread.
  
• Play together. Activity is king. There have got to be countless times where you want to join a hard server but Hard_XX1 is full and XX2 is empty. It only takes about 5-8 people in TS to band together and immediately you've reached critical mass and within 20 mins a hard server is full.
  

If you all genuinely believe that none of the above are possible, then there is a fundamental problem with this game and its community. In which case, this game will need a lot of time and a lot of radical changes. By then, Bannerlord would probably be released.