Folks, I'm gonna copypaste my first post here, then I'm going to edit to first post, to make it a better introduction to the spreading the word efforts.
Hello, C2C community.
I think we can agree that more people knowing about the mod will tend to lead towards:
a) More people supporting the project;
b) More people presenting ideas to the team;
c) More people to report bugs;
d) More satisfaction for the team members, who feel better the more people are enjoying and supporting their modding masterpiece ;
e) Maybe more modders joining the project;
f) Hell, other people have gotten jobs in the game industry after an awesome mod of theirs getting enough recognition. C2C deserves that type of recognition (of course whether the team wants that kind of recognition is up to them);
etc.
In sum, the more people know about C2C, the better. Spreading the word is something every one of us here, no matter what skills we possess, can do. Here's my idea of one way to get some more people excited about C2C. Feel free to post more ideas here if you have them!
Some of you may know this website called Reddit. For those who don't, here's some things you should know about it.
a) It's an immense community, at least compared in size to this forum (no offense, of course);
b) A lot of it loves video games ;
c) A lot of it plays Civilization.
www.reddit.com/r/civ , their Civilization "subreddit" alone (you can look at it as a subforum, reddit being a big-ass forum) has about 10k people in it! Most of them are currently playing Civ 5 But I know C2C can turn many of them around once they realize how great it is.
We could also post in
www.reddit.com/r/games and
www.reddit.com/r/gaming subreddits for exposure, with their respective 100k, and 1.7 million members
d) They (and this goes for 90%+ of the millions of people of reddit) love info in the form of pictures Specially if we wanna post in the bigger subreddits. Pictures just get more exposure there, as the info contained is easier/faster to be absorbed than text. And of course we all know pictures are a good way of making people excited about a video game
So to cut this short, my idea is creating an album of C2C screenshots, provided by you guys, titled "An Invitation to the Caveman to Cosmos Mod", or something to that effect. Everyone feel free to post your cool screenshots here, we can make a compilation of the best and get some exposure over Reddit I would do it myself, but I started playing very recently and have yet to go out of the Ancient Era, or get seafaring vessels, in any of my games. This severely limits the amount of cool screenshots I can take
I hope you guys like this idea, and feel willing to contribute The best screenshots would of course be of stuff that shows stuff that Vanilla (and Civ 5 ) could never do
Please feel free to suggest more ideas about spreading the word, too.