What about starting some sort of buddy program for Ryzom. Many games have such program, and so far it has proved itself as being quite effective way of promotion. I'm not sure how exactly this should be implemented, here is just an example. Each subscribed account gets three unique reference codes. The owner of account may hand these codes to any other person. Once this person goes to subscribe new account, there is an option popping up asking to enter the reference code. If the code is entered and accepted and new account is subscribed, the referenced account gets 30 days of free playing time and characters on the buddy's account get some bonus. I don't think that should be armor or weapons, as those get overgrown fast. But every newcomer finds out that lots of inevitable grind must be done in order to succeed, so maybe make their first steps on mainland a bit easier? Like giving them one free packer as a bonus for reference code, or discount for appartment, or just extra dappers?
And if you run out of reference codes, you may contact support team to get more.
This is easy to implement and this addition should give some boost to the population.
And if you run out of reference codes, you may contact support team to get more.
This is easy to implement and this addition should give some boost to the population.