Not enough activity

[SXTC]

As a recruiter I notice there's less and less overall activity on the game. Where I used to see 10 people online 3 years ago, there's 3 online today.

Every time it's the same... a patch is released with end game content and story... players get busy doing that and 2 weeks later they have completed it and are tired of it after which they don't sub again for 2 months till they get more end game or story content... it's sad that this seems to be the only thing people still seem to care about once they finish most things in the game.

Yoshi P said to not sub every month but it's rediculous that if you love social interraction, you have to skip 3-4 months of sub just to have a few weeks of serious social activity simply because people don't stick around.

I think telling people to skip subs is a terrible way to do it. I think a new method should be implemented to keep people invested in the game even if there is currently no storyline or end game content to do. And I believe this can be done by adding an in game mini game mode that can also be used through party and or duty finder where you can team up with other players (or the team you happen to be in) to do something silly.

A few examples would be:

- The floor is lava
- Hide & seek
- Riddle event
- FC vs FC pvp (this could get it's separate ranking)
- etc... every 1-3 patches they could add a new mini game.

It would be nice if you were given a few rule choices for each game and the ability to donate prizes people could win if they came out as the winner. This would promote random people acting silly together. People like me wouldn't mind funding prizes because I enjoy having people around. At the very least the game needs more reasons for people to flock to the game and I think we can easily do that with small adjustments.

[Exmo]

This is all stuff that you can do in game right now with the affordances granted within the play space. I've been to deathroll competitions, glamour competitions, walking tours, etc. It just requires self-organisation of the community.

[SXTC]

This would keep it limited to your own community which means you won't always find enough people. It would be helpful if the game provided some pre-made mini games with a limited choice of rules so it's easier and more inviting to do something fun with randoms without having to make an effort.

[SXTC]

There is a reason why frontline pvp is always packed... it's also somewhat a mini game but through duty finder, easy, random, fun.
I'm sure the same success can be had when they make other games that people used to do IRL and enjoyed, to be easy accessible in game.

It's hard to find likeminded people... lets take pvp, not everyone likes it but simply because there's a premade duty finder option, there's always enough people.

It's more a matter of bringing people together to do something they may enjoy with a group.
And finding a group in 1 community isn't always easy... I've hosted custom games but it usually only fetches 4 people in 1 FC where it would be way more fun with 8+ people.

Just imagine a "the floor is lava" game where you are forced to do it mounted and falling means you have to sit on the bench and have to wait for that round to end
I've done jumping riddles mounted during a competition (shirogane for example) and it's very fun, especially if there's a prize to win XD

[Sunhwapark]

I usually just wander through housing wards and enter peoples houses to see how they've designed the interior.
It's interesting to see how creative people can be, also a relatively low effort activity I suppose.

The only other thing to note is that sometimes I've walked into houses with people all stacked on top of each other sometimes on random bits of furniture, and it becomes a bit awkward.

[SXTC]

I usually just wander through housing wards and enter peoples houses to see how they've designed the interior.
It's interesting to see how creative people can be, also a relatively low effort activity I suppose.

The only other thing to note is that sometimes I've walked into houses with people all stacked on top of each other sometimes on random bits of furniture, and it becomes a bit awkward.

Congrats my friend, you've stumbled upon ERP in progress xD

[VeyaAkemi]

Once I ran into people playing some sort of TTRPG in-game, they were at the Ruby Sea, do /dice in chat, and then move accordingly, I watched them from a decent distance for a minute or two, and went on my way, I was mostly confused why they were doing the rolls on /say instead of on a party or FC chat.

[BigCheez]

I could play hide and seek without the devs adding it to the game. The issue with that is that I'm not 5 years old.

How about we get some meaningful content with replay value instead of 1 dungeon that's near identical to every other dungeon with no reason to do it more than once, a single Hildebrand quest and custom deliveries/beast tribes that tell me to go away once my 30 second gameplay allowance has been used up?

Nontent is not the answer. People would do these things once and then never touch them again. We already have things like jumping puzzles, triple triad and duelling at Wolves Den Pier but you've forgotten that they exist because they're boring after 30 seconds.

[SXTC]

I could play hide and seek without the devs adding it to the game. The issue with that is that I'm not 5 years old.

How about we get some meaningful content with replay value instead of 1 dungeon that's near identical to every other dungeon with no reason to do it more than once, a single Hildebrand quest and custom deliveries/beast tribes that tell me to go away once my 30 second gameplay allowance has been used up?

Nontent is not the answer. People would do these things once and then never touch them again. We already have things like triple triad and duelling at Wolves Den Pier but you've forgotten that they exist because they're boring after 30 seconds.

Tell that to the vast amount of players who manage to cause drama like a 5y old in the game almost on a daily basis xD
Regardless to say either SE isn't putting out meaningful content or there's just too much 5y olds that need 5y content seeing as I'm not seeing much people log in, meaning they don't have anything meaningful to do

And besides, we both know you can't do hide and seek with minors that won't cry when they lose xD
Even then the game doesn't allow 5y olds so that reasoning is kinda off... there's no such thing as 5y content in truth.

The question is, do you like to just hang out with friends? Or do you consider yourself "too good" to humiliate yourself by acting silly with a couple of friends xD

[SXTC]

We did hide and seek a couple of months ago, was fun because we had custom rules. But while you can arrange stuff like that on your own, it's quite impossible to bring enough people up to speed about it so some in game support would help a lot.