Suggestion: Kongregate to increase player base (?) (in General)

Kongregate has been mentioned several times in the forums, though it had yet to be suggested that CB be "linked", if that is the right term for being hosted through that site as well as having the current one, through it. The potential gains are enormous and if it can be accomplished without much strain or effort, I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't be, though admittedly I know far too little of these matters. For those of you who don't already know, Kongregate is a gaming aggregator site with traffic in the millions that provide developers with 25-50% of ad revenue and cash reward tournaments. If this turns out to be a terrible idea after being dismissed by the following comments, let it be known that it was Windwalker's idea.

Yeah this sounds like it would be a good idea although I don't know if how the linking would work. Would definitely increase awareness of the game and if you get badges then 100s would be trying it out xD.

I'm not sure if it's possible. I saw from the FAQ page, it looks like kongregate only supports flash games and unity


--Copied from http://developers.kongregate.com/docs/resources/faq
What format of games can I upload?
We support Flash (swf) files, and Unity game files. We do not have any plans to support executables (exe).

Additionally, games have a maximum file size of 20MB and a maximum width of 800 pixels. There's not a hard height limit but please keep it reasonable to make sure your game is still playable.

haha-I believe the discussion was about getting more people to play.
I said lots of things had been tried but I wasn't sure of the specifics.
It was all you on the Kong suggestion Brother.

I've used Kongregate for years, and this is my understanding.

If it can't be transferred to one of those platforms, I'd suggest programming a demonstration version that could get away with not being multi-player simply to lure in players who have been mildly interested.

20 MB max? I am posative some of these larger multiplayer games on Kong have way more than 20 MB.

I'll just leave this here.

Suggestions:

Are any of these novel and implementable?

1. A minuscule bonus for all players that increases depending on the number of BA spent that day. It resets after an interval, say 24 hours.
I.E: 25 BA spent : 1.3% Bonus
: 200 BA spent : 4.5% Bonus

2. End Rentals before return date.

3. Mentorship system where the mentor receives a small bonus depending on apprentice's progress, and rewards at certain milestones.

4. Additions to tutorial: Request beginner to visit the help! page for information about fight rewards instead of simply navigating to help.

5. View your own battle reports on recent battles page. Can be supporter bonus.

6. Option to either always display character avatars or never.

7. "(x) unread messages" tab on sidebar preferably such that if in zoom on a mobile device, it can be seen. Able to toggle on and off in options.

8. Private Instant messenger on sidebar, enabled for groups. ( Essentially a redesign of chat fitted onto sidebar. Viewable on mobile device. )

11. Enable fight stream on mobile.

12. Option on fight stream to include only your fights, along with the status of the battle and the rewards. ( Experience and reward could be split into two tabs, i.e All , Clan, Self-experience, Self-money )

13. Abandoned characters gain experience from battles, to be trained at a ratio of their current stats.

14. Tattoo artist can merge tattoos.

15. Supporter bonus item is randomized, with percentage of appearance set based on the average price in auction house. I.E Breastplate of Expertise more likely to be given than HoC.

16. Topic starter, if not all posters, can edit post. If not, everyone can ADD content to their original posts, with text preceded by "Edited on xx yy at xx:yy". Makes compiling a list more efficient.

17. Option to toggle chat as a right-side bar.

18. Small-one time reward for sharing on media sites.

19. Revive the community effort to give CB exposure on social media sites, going on more specific categories / gaming recommendation forums and up voting the hell out of a main CB thread with testimonies from current players as comments. I.E ( It takes fifty up votes to reach Rank 1 Alltime link in reddit.com/r/MUD with 1500 members. Instead of having uninterested people randomly sign up and quit after seeing the style of the game, appeal to more experienced browser MMO players. )

20. Will add more as inconveniences and ideas arise.


Er.. the poorly thought out ones are by Breeze-stroller.

Viole, I love a good portion of your suggestions.

I'll be here all week. Everyone else is at the library studying for finals and I'm just sitting here Carnage Blending.

^Me too.

I'll just leave this here.

Suggestions:

Are any of these novel and implementable?

I.E: 25 BA spent : 1.3% Bonus
: 200 BA spent : 4.5% Bonus

Rewards being active, could work nicely with a rolling bonus that is frequently brought up.


I've definitely suggested this at some point.


There used to be something like this, though I don't believe any rewards were given.


The tutorial needs to be either scrapped entirely or completely revamped... it's bad.


I agree with this, however there would have to be a limit to prevent server overload. Maybe even an option to save your favorites ;P


We already have this. Settings > Preferences > Show character images during battle


No real opinion, not a bad idea.


Chat can be similar with separate chat rooms, but I like the idea of pinning particular ones to the side bar.


Would be nice, but I think that's more of a limitation of mobile browsers more then anything.


I like the concept, though I'd implement it differently


They technically do, albeit its very small, it just doesn't get trained as that would be like auto-pilot. Though something like Tourney Prizes could be set up to do this.


Too abuse-able, just flat out won't happen.


The supporter item is more like a freebie, hence why it's a BoE and they are so cheap.


I've been wanting this forever, I make mistakes all the time.


Again no opinion, just a nice idea.


If you share your referral link you'll get more then a small-one time reward.


This x1000, I used to have a special banner in my signature for any forum I visited (don't visit any of those anymore) that was my referral link. I had a bunch of people sign up when I was posting a lot, unfortunately they didn't stick around.


Suggestions are always welcome even when criticized

6 is more of a personal preference. The option already available only shows avatars when both players involved have it. I'd like it to always show at least mine (with whatever the default image was for the opponent), because I don't like spamming BA and seeing the picture flash on and off.

7 is also a personal thing. I've both sent and received messages, only for them to be ignored because the alert isn't urgent and immediate.

Oh, replace all my I.Es with E.Gs.

If that correction was really for id est vs. exempli gratia, it's quite possible that I'm in love with you.

I've never used to used them extensively before, so they were interchangeable to my ignorant self.

Er, I don't know what to say. It's too soon. After the mishap in the showers with Demigod, I'm not sure I'm ready for a relationship.

Are you suggesting to have a flash CB, or to have a Kong banner ad?

Both of those would work but this thread was pitching the idea of CB on Kong as a full game, though I've been informed since then that only a flash version would be possible.

Although I'm not sure how appealing a CB banner would be.

CB3!

It would be nice if there was an easy way to get CB to run in a flash type window, just so it could be put on Kong. Of course I have no idea if such an idea is feasible or if Kong would allow it.