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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: Re: ...and a few more (Kursak)
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, at 6:43 p.m.
> Yeah some of the data at Thottbot is not correct, also I think Blizzard
> has a easy way that they can change things on the fly. But I think all of
> the data is correct on all of the servers, and yes some of the MOBS, can
> wander a long distance.
That might be another way to get posters... announce a contest of best corrections and server comparisons. You might see if you can find some sort of prize/bonus for someone with a map or information they can add... kind of make some areas of the site similar to a Wiki. It's so annoying to have to read through a zillion user feedback comments on Thott or Ala to find all the details you want.
Heck, you could even simply give them special user titles on the board. It sounds silly, but user titles ae often a bonus that people will eagerly work toward (fame... but no fortune.)
This is also something a guild can do.
> But yeah I was getting very frustrated with Thottbot also, and this I feel
> is the Niche that Corey was talking about in his course.
You might not have thought about it, but I did quite well at science fiction conventions selling guidebooks to a Muck (game.) I'd put together a booklet of about 20 pages (that's 5 pages, folded, saddle stapled) that sold for about $3.00 and it covered the Muck from newbie stuff up to wizarding and programming. At science fiction conventions where this crowd gathered, I could easily sell $500+ of the booklets in a weekend. Since I kept them small, they were easy to write and easy to update and easy to write a series of 6 books.
In your case, you could probably do the book and print it on one of the Print On Demand companies. You would have to be careful to NOT use the WOW logos and to put the (tm) after the name. You would also have to redraw the maps (draw by hand... trace them) so that they can't accuse you of taking their content.
You'd have to price out that option. There's probably also a market for these guidebooks in languages other than English.
> Thank you for your input so far, also here is a good tip, I made a rogue,
> that is a miner, and I am able to stealth around. I hear from other
> boards/players, that a druid or rogue miner is good, especially to get
> Dark Iron Ore in the higher instance's. So you can stealth past all the
> miners. That is just a tidbit, I am giving, since you gave me some really
> awesome input on my website.
I'm going to have to do that! Playing a gnome mage now (man, talk about FRAGILE!) -- the one I enjoy best is the Taurean shaman. She's such a tank!
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