Mega Man RPG Prototype Community

Now that you said I noticed that there are really few people playing these last days,i think it's because of the less updates,but the less updates that i'm saying is about of introducting some new features to the game,like new robots unlocking challenges.

We never saw Adrian again,the master developer of this game.But MegaBossMan is here,he is editing some sprites for us,he is doing his best.

Not only me but everyone of this Prototype is hoping for better days to come, when we finally have the chance to have some robots we are wishing to be playable.

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What are we comparing this to?

It's easy to make broad sweeping statements, but the truth of the matter is that these past few months have had irregularly high amounts of activity; no doubt due to the unfortunate lockdown situations many around the world currently find themselves in. But even besides that, these past 2 years have been the most active in statistics in the entire site’s history. This data is supported by our analytics page, which demonstrates a clear noticeable uptick. There's been thousands of new clicks to the site and just now we're about to hit 5000 functioning accounts on the leaderboard. And just from personal experience, I've noticed plenty of times where we've had a dozen accounts on all at once, and even as I'm writing this comment right now there's 8 10 accounts all on at once. There are new discussions on the Discord and new posts every day on the community, especially the 500 that have been made in Beta Shadow's roleplay thread that's only been around for three months. The roleplay section in general has been thriving, so if you may be bored waiting for updates to the site, I highly recommend you check out the content here; the material these guys are creating with basic community formatting and edit buttons that don’t work is astounding and I love that this community has always provided in times of game drought. Now truth be told, this isn’t massive in the wide scheme of things, but for a blue ocean Mega Man - RPG hybrid flash fangame and a text-based online forum (a format that’s been dying for the past 10 years in favor of more immediate platforms), this is nowhere near dead. And it’s all due to the absolute dedication and creativity of many of our users, which is an absolute godsend. This is all I could ever ask for and it’s an immense source of pride for me to have the users we have. I don’t ever want to disparage the work they put in.

Now, it’s definitely true that there’s more activity when there’s new content; it’s a pretty basic equation of more stuff = more activity, right? And I assume that might mainly be what you’re referring to. But sadly, while ideally there would always be new content, that isn’t always the case. Our only programmer and head developer, Ageman20XX, is an adult with adult responsibilities and a full-time job. I apologize if users have been looking forward to new abilities or new modes or new mechanics in the past many months, but when he’s busy, things stall. This has always been the cycle of MMRPG and there has been times where it’s been years without updates, as many of our users can attest (just remember the timespan before the December 2018 update, lol )

That being said, while they’re minor, I’ve been doing my absolute best working late into the night coming home after work, developing revised sheets for many of our Robot Masters. It’s been almost consecutively every week that I’ve been releasing and revising new sheets and bios (thanks to Tobyjoey for his writing!) This isn’t exactly ‘new’ content, but regardless I’ve tried to put the effort in for people to look forward to every week. Granted, this can’t go on forever because there can only be so many sheets that need updating, but maybe we can look into other forms of content?



Sorry if this feels like a rant or a critique, there’s just a lot to address when it comes to a topic like this. I’ve always liked new Robot Masters because they’re opportunities to develop completely new mechanics and allow us to expand and consider the game’s battle system further, but what when we run out of new RMs? How different will that be from now? It’s cool content, but that by itself isn’t sustainable. No game can eternally hold your interest or remain forever evergreen, much more so in today’s time where there are literally millions of different products and projects all looking to hold your interest. That being said, I still heavily recommend checking out some of the material in the Roleplay section or maybe creating your own thread or discussion? There’s a lot of great alternatives to get invested in.



That being said, you raise a great concern and I’d love to start a dialogue on what could be done further. What would you be interested in seeing? What do you feel needs to be addressed to improve the game’s livelihood for you? In terms of developer interaction, Ageman has never really been all that active on the community or Discord, but he’s always let me substitute for him in that department and I can do what I can to interact with the community further.

Luckily I read through your Message. Because of "What do you feel needs to be addressed to improve the game's livelihood for you?"

You might be staring at me now but still. As Development Continues soon. We can hope for a better future

That Means you Quint
Shut up

Oh and 1 Last Thing... What if there wasn't JUST RM's? (DEFINITELY NOT A TEASER FOR EXTENDED DATABASE)

And Welcome back Rage Switch!

So friggin is XD