We're #17!!! Vote! 09/27/2003 01:31 AM CDT
I can't belive this! We're #17 at topmudsites.com!
I really think the vote button should be put back up at the top of the page. Who scrolls down to the bottom? I bet lots of people don't even know about this. I also think that Simutronics should write some sort of program that would put in a vote for you whenever you log in...if you consent to this option. That way we don't have to constantly think of voting all the time...
I kind of think topmudsites must be rigged. It's really disappointing to see unoriginal games up there in the top ten. Games that are written in stock code. I weep. Or games that are written in an original language, but aren't original. (cough Achaea cough).

Vote.
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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/27/2003 01:36 AM CDT
<<I really think the vote button should be put back up at the top of the page.

I think it should be put back on the board sign-on screen myself. I very seldom even have cause to go to the website. I enter the game through SGE and I enter the boards from the game.
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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/27/2003 02:36 PM CDT
>>Nevynral>>I enter the game through SGE and I enter the boards from the game.

Similar situation here. I enter the game through the SGE and enter the boards using a direct link (http://www.play.net/forums/) right off my own start page that my browser uses for a home page.

~~~Krin
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
"Goblins ... aisle 6, Mycthengelde ... hunt smart, hunt S-Mart!"
"You whine like a mule ... you are still alive!"
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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/27/2003 02:39 PM CDT
>>Similar situation here. I enter the game through the SGE and enter the boards using a direct link (http://www.play.net/forums/) right off my own start page that my browser uses for a home page.

Copy in http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=drealms as a link on your home page or make it a favorite or put it in a shortcut on your desktop. That link takes you to the voting page.

I seem top recall that the link is also referenced in Solly's signature...

~Kyn

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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/27/2003 03:14 PM CDT
Already have, Kyn. It's right next to the link for going to the boards. But more often than not, I am just waking up and don't even think to click it.

Just noting that it's likely people don't even see the DR page very often.

~~~Krin
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
"Goblins ... aisle 6, Mycthengelde ... hunt smart, hunt S-Mart!"
"You whine like a mule ... you are still alive!"
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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/28/2003 02:25 PM CDT
Too true. I use the SGE also.
I've been thinking about it, though, and have come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter where DR ranks on that list. The game isn't going to lose players over it. I mean, DR is an entirely different calibur of game. It's actually difficult for me to think of it as a MUD. And I actually don't think that Simutronics is catering to the mudding community anyway, but to the online gaming community as a whole.
We're above that silly list.
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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/30/2003 07:53 AM CDT
Have they changed thier voting criteria?

I won't vote anymore because I question the accuracy of the poll on that site due to the IG incentives offered by games to get #1. Use to be that way, I lost interest really fast when I played the #1 game and didn't see anjyone to rp with for 2 days, and yet saw over 600 people playing in DR.

-Slaris, Tursa reness kad fruna.
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Re: We're #17!!! Vote! 09/30/2003 03:48 PM CDT
I've heard that Achaea gives XP bonuses to players who vote.
My experience with that game was similar. I stuck with it for 2 weeks even! A sad waste of my time.
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