Help to grow our site & forums

[o_rebo]

Everyone on the dev team believes Fortress Forever will be the best mod for HL2. If we didnt believe that we wouldnt be making it :D. However no matter how good it is, if we dont have good community support , strong and welcoming forums, and many players out there ready to play the game on release the it will be tough.

Our forums have grown remarkably in 3 weeks weve gone from 0 to over 650 registered members this is cool as hell :O). But we can do better ! For every player who at one time enjoyed TFC this development period is their opportunity to influence how the mod will turn out. An opinion that was rarely able to be heard during the valve run days. Even for new players to the genre this is an opportunity for them to see a mod being created before their eyes and learn much about the game before its released.

So keep spreading the word and get friends interested, i'm sure we can hit 1000+ members by the end of February.

One thing you might like to do is if you see a mention of Fortress Forever in an unusual forum or in an interesting context post thie link here and we can see what people are saying about the mod.

[o_reverie]

Will do. There's definitely a large addition to the FF community that just haven't found the place yet.

Let's hope that the more support there is, the more swift progress will be.

[o__thursday_]

www.naturalselection.com

Go to the forums, and private message 'Nemesis Zero' stating you want to request the right to advertise on the Off Topic forum board. He will allow it, just don't forget to sign up :wink:

[o_storm]

you have my support :)

[Defrag]

Sorry to split hairs, but I don't know about 'best MOD'. Best is a very subjective thing to define :P Regardless, I believe it'll be a great success.

[o_rebo]

bleh it will be the best defrag, trust me:D

[Lost]

I've been reading since the beginning of January but never had anything good to add :mrgreen:

I'll start spamming FF links. :D

[o_salo]

yo rebo & FF team,

big up from the whole of [-KI-]... thanks for your efforts, we cant wait

will be spreading the word, I'm sure this thing has a huge potential - TFC for ever!

[o_sobe green]

Sorry to split hairs, but I don't know about 'best MOD'. Best is a very subjective thing to define :P Regardless, I believe it'll be a great success.

No other mod team has the talent and motivation that this one has. I'm sure there will be other great mods but I'm stamping "MOD OF THE YEAR" on all of your foreheads as of now. *STAMP*

[o_shaolin]

You should always aim to be the best Debaff :P

[o_anshinritsumai]

yo rebo & FF team,

big up from the whole of [-KI-]... thanks for your efforts, we cant wait

will be spreading the word, I'm sure this thing has a huge potential - TFC for ever!

x2.

[o_carwash]

Hopefully this link works ...
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/wwwthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=pczone&Number=782477&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=2&part=

[o_qui]

Would it be worth writing to PCGamer telling them about your mod? They always have random mod news every month and im sure they say, if you are making a mod, email x for an interview. Could potentially reach thousands of readers.

Other magazines too would surely be interested.

[o_lillbrorsan]

I'm helping you in every way possible! :roll:

[o_qui]

Oh and search engine optimise the site for obvious keywords like "tfc, tfc2, team fortress source, etc" ;)

[o_rebo]

Keep it going lads we added another 50 forum users yesterday, :))

[o_johnnyp]

will do

btw, how about the forum avatars?:\

[o_thefinn]

I started a FF anticipation thread on Something Awful, and a few of the devs have posted in it. I'm doing all I can to get the word out. :D

[Defrag]

Sorry to split hairs, but I don't know about 'best MOD'. Best is a very subjective thing to define :P Regardless, I believe it'll be a great success.

No other mod team has the talent and motivation that this one has. I'm sure there will be other great mods but I'm stamping "MOD OF THE YEAR" on all of your foreheads as of now. *STAMP*
There are a couple of mods that have been around longer and have great talent :) (Insurgency for one, nuclear dawn [I believe that's the name] also looks cool)

[o_storm]

I know this may seem like child's play but I noticed the sites Meta tags/descriptions and title wasn't particularly optimization for Google searches. Chuck in the address and what key words you want the site to be found under into this page (bottom) and it spits out its suggestions.


http://www.sitesolutions.com/analysis.asp?F=Form

[Jiggles]

Does Google look at meta-tags anymore?

[o_storm]

It officially says it doesnt but who really knows how its bots work, loads of other search engines still use them anyhow so it cant do any harm to have them organized.

[o_warmage_magus]

The thing I like most about this board is, although there are plenty of familiar faces, the overall attitude of the boardies is far better than the Catacombs.

[o_smack]

I would have to disagree, the FF forums on the Cats have been highly supportive and civil and very very impressed by the team's work.

every single comment isn't all ass kissing, there's some criticism, but i'd have to say the cats community is almost completely positive about the project.

[o_blackseer]

Its still young, but growing fast. :)

[o__thursday_]

Sorry to split hairs, but I don't know about 'best MOD'. Best is a very subjective thing to define :P Regardless, I believe it'll be a great success.

No other mod team has the talent and motivation that this one has. I'm sure there will be other great mods but I'm stamping "MOD OF THE YEAR" on all of your foreheads as of now. *STAMP*
There are a couple of mods that have been around longer and have great talent :) (Insurgency for one, nuclear dawn [I believe that's the name] also looks cool)

No other mod has great talent? I did not know of any of the listed programmers/designers except for Kermie before I heard about this project. For example, probably the best level-designers are around at mapcore and snarkpit (although I'm not a big fan of map core), they both hold "big name" designers within the Half-Life community.

On the comment of Insurgency, its a modification I don't rate. Most of the Half-Life 2 new community developers are modellers, and there is an abundance of good ones. I want to see levels, custom props/textures and good solid gamecode and a decent beta release before hailing any modification team for their efforts. Sorry to run off topic on that, couldn't be avoided :)

[o_sk]

Maybe we should make a page spread in the New York Times? ;)

[o_thegreekgod]

i put you guys in my sig on the g4 fourms. which is the same place i found out about you guys through someone elses sig.

[o_storm]

Amm esses theos ewo eme papamichael.

if you are greek you would understand :P

[o_rebo]

http://www.fortress-forever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=389

Thats the way to do it :D