dude, i'm not moving the goalposts. you are. you can't compare for shit. 'oh, we don't have anything like the old lj games back when rp was popular' ... 'don't compare things to lj'.
whatever thing you've convinced yourself you're arguing, you're not. you talk about the numbers not being there and i've proved they are. memebells still had people playing on it despite a lot of people moving to dwrp. what you call an 'exodus' was really a split for a lot of people. some played in both spots. some only played in one. there were a lot of games that refused to move to dwrp for quite a while and they still played on lj.
eudio did and does well. the numbers are there. if the dragoncalled mod hadn't gone mia, that game likely would have done not too bad going by the reserves for the first month. your inability to see that there are a lot of people on this site just waiting to flock to a new game is your problem, not mine. why do you think cdc/ryslig/eachdraidh got called 'the big three'. because they all three offered different types of gameplay and opened up with huge numbers. they were monoliths on the site, until they couldn't keep up with the stress of being large games because the makers had thought they'd be opening small games and hadn't prepared for the flood.
because that's the advice given to all new games, you jackass. 'either cap the game or prepare for a flood'. why? because so many people want something new and fun to play with. if you have a tdm that does well and a concept that catches people's attention, you can easily have another mega-game in the making. eudio hitting 500 members proves that. the big three hitting high numbers proves it (and hey, they weren't sol, so shove that argument too). a lot of people are just fucking around doing nothing because there's nothing to do. if someone gave them something worth getting worked up about, having another/more big games is easily a possibility.
sorry that dwrp isn't as dead as you want it to be, i guess.
Re: ayrt
whatever thing you've convinced yourself you're arguing, you're not. you talk about the numbers not being there and i've proved they are. memebells still had people playing on it despite a lot of people moving to dwrp. what you call an 'exodus' was really a split for a lot of people. some played in both spots. some only played in one. there were a lot of games that refused to move to dwrp for quite a while and they still played on lj.
eudio did and does well. the numbers are there. if the dragoncalled mod hadn't gone mia, that game likely would have done not too bad going by the reserves for the first month. your inability to see that there are a lot of people on this site just waiting to flock to a new game is your problem, not mine. why do you think cdc/ryslig/eachdraidh got called 'the big three'. because they all three offered different types of gameplay and opened up with huge numbers. they were monoliths on the site, until they couldn't keep up with the stress of being large games because the makers had thought they'd be opening small games and hadn't prepared for the flood.
because that's the advice given to all new games, you jackass. 'either cap the game or prepare for a flood'. why? because so many people want something new and fun to play with. if you have a tdm that does well and a concept that catches people's attention, you can easily have another mega-game in the making. eudio hitting 500 members proves that. the big three hitting high numbers proves it (and hey, they weren't sol, so shove that argument too). a lot of people are just fucking around doing nothing because there's nothing to do. if someone gave them something worth getting worked up about, having another/more big games is easily a possibility.
sorry that dwrp isn't as dead as you want it to be, i guess.