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Fritzlein
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Wave of new players last week
« on: Jul 28th, 2007, 10:37pm » |
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We must have gotten some favorable publicity somewhere. For a long time the number of new players creating accounts has hovered between one and two per day. But look at the wave of new accounts in the last eight days:
Month Newcomers Rate
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April . . 37 1.23
May . . 51 1.65
June . . 35 1.17
JulyTo20th 29 1.45
21stTo28th 33 4.12
Does anyone know of a specific cause?
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arimaa_master
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Re: Wave of new players last week
« Reply #1 on: Jul 29th, 2007, 2:36am » |
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on Jul 28th, 2007, 10:37pm, Fritzlein wrote:We must have gotten some favorable publicity somewhere. For a long time the number of new players creating accounts has hovered between one and two per day. But look at the wave of new accounts in the last eight days:
Month Newcomers Rate
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April . . 37 1.23
May . . 51 1.65
June . . 35 1.17
JulyTo20th 29 1.45
21stTo28th 33 4.12
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Yes, indeed, I was thinking about the same last few days, definitely it could´t be a happenstance.
Anyway, it is great news for the arimaa community! 
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IdahoEv
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Re: Wave of new players last week
« Reply #2 on: Jul 31st, 2007, 2:40am » |
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I contributed a bit; I evangelized it among a group of new gamer friends I met, and I think that resulted in between 3 and 6 new accounts.
I'm considering evangelizing quite a bit more, late next month. The next Strategicon is coming up, and a bunch of my friends are thinking of renting a hotel room so they can game the whole four days. I can get my admission free if I commit to one eight-hour day running a table of something; i think I'll set up 3-4 arimaa boards and have handouts on the game, the rules, and the AI challenge, and see if I can draw in some new blood.
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Re: Wave of new players last week
« Reply #3 on: Jul 31st, 2007, 5:19am » |
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on Jul 31st, 2007, 2:40am, IdahoEv wrote:I contributed a bit; I evangelized it among a group of new gamer friends I met, and I think that resulted in between 3 and 6 new accounts.
I'm considering evangelizing quite a bit more, late next month. The next Strategicon is coming up, and a bunch of my friends are thinking of renting a hotel room so they can game the whole four days. I can get my admission free if I commit to one eight-hour day running a table of something; i think I'll set up 3-4 arimaa boards and have handouts on the game, the rules, and the AI challenge, and see if I can draw in some new blood.
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great work - very appreciated - keep going
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Fritzlein
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Re: Wave of new players last week
« Reply #4 on: Jul 31st, 2007, 8:32am » |
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Excellent. Thank you IdahoEv!
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