Well, where the fuck do I start? Drastic changes are needed to make wilderness alot more active.
Firstly, I think we shall start at these new "automated" tournaments that are constantly running during the day. I feel like they are taking alot of players from the wilderness due to how much they are running. I myself end up joining them when I see the offer of winning free gp for pking... Who wouldn't though right?
I think we are needing to put a timer on how many can be done in 1 hour. I think 2 per hour is fine.
Secondly, I know there was a poll created for the equipment tab, now I'm not sure if this was voted for to just have it removed in wilderness or the whole game. I think we need it REMOVED from the wilderness, as I often find myself fighting a flat, and he just runs straight to 1 wilderness and is able to survive due to having 30 food slots. It's just boring at this point, sometimes I even find myself on my 70 fighting a level 65 iron pure, and even they can make it out of the wilderness from 13. Due to just running and having a whole bunch of food to eat.. Also, on the subject of the equipment tab, I know of a good few players who are put off of coming to here due to this as they feel its too "custom" and it ruins the aspect of real pking, what we all know and love.
Having that other place just shutting down, now would be a good time to maybe remove this and try and attract those players that have just been left without a stable place to play.
Thirdly, TRANSFERS. Yep, thats right, transfers from the place thats just shut down, this is our BEST chance to capture all there players, now i'm sure you staff/admins can work out how to do it, but we are needing something along the lines of;
Half the combat XP transferred, and a third of the skilling xp transferred over? I don't see how our players would disagree with that, its not a massive boost, but its something to motivate them to come here. At this point, its either we do it, or the other competition does it, and they have done it in the past before. We need to grab the oppertunity before they do.
Your probably going to say how can we verify characters etc? But as im sure you all know, due to a few high profile hackings that happened, there IS a leaked database out there, not very hard to get either. We could confirm characters from that, and i'm sure if we asked moody nicely, maybe he'd even give us the most up to date one..
Or we could offer Hixk a packet of cigs for it?