• Those wishing to contribute to the game by making suggestions (both small and large) should read the following before doing so.

    Bushtarion largely runs completely automatically, and has been designed intentionally to be as self-maintaining as possible, with mechanics and balance considered at a completed point.

    Please do not spend large amounts of time coming up with complex suggestions in the hope that they will be read and possibly implemented in the future, unless you just enjoy the discussion, theory-craft, and such.

    The most likely changes will be rules-changes, specific number-tweaks to units, techs, and similar sorts of changes, and only if a large community consensus is reached as "proof" that a change would, overall, be an improvement, and are more likely to be done in batches, occassionally, not as a regular thing.

App Store/ android market

timtadams

Landscape Designer
Joined
Sep 9, 2008
Messages
2,260
Location
Australia
Actually, it's even less than that. Tim, pm me and I'll explain what Gavin and I spoke about yesterday.

Send me an in game mail if you can't PM me.
bushtarion.com/portal/portal_messages.php?Opt=I&SendTo=TimA
 

WTFudge

Planter
Joined
Oct 5, 2011
Messages
32
I am an old school Bushtarion player and decided to check out how the playerbase has been getting on, unfortunately it seems very dead! :(

I think the main reason why the playerbase hasn't grown, is firstly due to an inactive game owner, and secondly due to people moving on and the game not hitting the next generation.

I don't really have the time to go on the computer and work together with an alliance and co-ordinate attacks/defends any more, as I work and cannot commit to no sleep any more.

I would probably have time for a phone app of some sort, as I will not play it on a phone browser due to the site having a very poor phone layout. If there was a phone app, for Android/iPhone, then that would be a great start to bringing new players back to the game.

Although I cannot help directly with the development process, I can make a suggestion to software that would make the dev/testing process easier for your existing code base, as I work for a company who specialises in selling software, and specifically in this case - application development tools, and I could get a hold of the software at a cheaper price than the standard RRP. The software in mind is provided by www.embarcadero.com, and they supply very good tools for people interested in mobile app development, if you're interested in understanding how this would benefit the development cycle, PM me for further information.

Personally I think the game still has potential and if it hit the phone market, it would definitely be one of the top games out there.
 

Garrett2

Landscape Designer
Joined
Jan 19, 2012
Messages
1,703
roffle. heart in the right place, but if game owner is lax - it doesn't matter. everyone is just all talk til i see someone produce something.

furthermore it wouldnt behoove them to do it. they'd have no rights to moneys from it and if azzer doesn't support it - probably couldn't link to his database(s) anyway.

people need to stop because this is the definition of insanity. posting the same stuff over and over, hoping it will change. It never will. (I'm almost as bad as with trying to convince you stoners to take a different course of action.)

If people want to do anything, they should code their own game or the next generation of this one so they aren't bothered trying to breathe life into this dead horse you all keep beating.

I guarantee you this playerbase would move on to it if it had something new and yet similarly addicting as this game.
 

tobapopalos

Hydroponics Developer
Joined
Dec 14, 2007
Messages
2,759
Location
Manchester
people need to stop because this is the definition of insanity. posting the same stuff over and over, hoping it will change.

This. It may sound callous or pessimistic to stomp on people when they are 'only trying to help' or whatever, but we've all seen this too many times.

It aint gonna happen, ladies.
 

antisback

Head Gardener
Joined
Dec 14, 2007
Messages
429
Spam bots aside. The general thinking among web developers is to actually not bother with a mobile app unless it provides functionality above and beyond the website (usually mobile integration, which is not allowed with bush). The simplest thing would be to do some responsive stylesheets for bush so the site can be viewed on mobile devices (not an easy task due to the site structure) then hope azzer implements them (he wont).
 

Max

Garden Designer
Joined
Dec 14, 2007
Messages
1,015
Location
London
Interesting - I'll have to keep this in mind if I ever get around to making my own game at some point, thanks Antisback.
 

alwaysnumb

Head Gardener
Joined
Jan 7, 2008
Messages
309
Location
London
I just moved a website I been running for years onto a platform that uses seperate templates for mobile/ipad/desktops and we have seen an increase of about 20% on sales, Bounce rate down 15%, page views up 10%. But No change in number of visitors.
 

Dax

Hydroponics Developer
Joined
Apr 22, 2009
Messages
3,126
Location
Northants, UK
I just moved a website I been running for years onto a platform that uses seperate templates for mobile/ipad/desktops and we have seen an increase of about 20% on sales, Bounce rate down 15%, page views up 10%. But No change in number of visitors.

My business website also does this. Best thing you can ever do is make it device-unique, as it makes it perfect for individual phones/resolutions/platforms. If you can do it, or afford to have it done for you I can guarantee you it's a worthwhile investment of time and money.
 

alwaysnumb

Head Gardener
Joined
Jan 7, 2008
Messages
309
Location
London
Did you pair that with a decent ad campaign?

Nope we stopped advertising a year ago was spending silly money on Adwords CPC. The clicks became so expensive and return wasnt worth it. Best thing we did was dump google and move into twitter/facebook for free and it works a treat.
ps we have a mailing list of about 30k previous customers/interested people over last 8 years. that drags in tons orders every 2 or 3 weeks or so.
 
Last edited:
Top