Achaea's Best Year Under Tecton's Reign

Sarapis

Just realized that 2013 was Achaea's best year under the Reign of @Tecton, and its fourth best year overall. Been trending up since he took over, which is great! Thanks to everyone, from the Gods to the players to the Guides!

(Also, a gratuitous Imp Slap for your viewing pleasure. Can't get enough of watching someone, anyone smack King Bieber around, much less the coolest imp ever.)

Siduri

@Sarapis : It is not gratuitous if it is well earned.

Kresslack

The Hound looks only, visibly amused. 

Mithridates

Just wondering, how do you measure that statistic? Player retention, average number of players active, credit sales?

Agrias

It's a clever and intricate system of money laundering, extortion, racketeering, embezzlement, and sedition incorporating the use of local businesses, petty thugs, loan sharks, and college loan applicants, all the while meticulously recording all forms of financial transactions from a secure Swiss bank somewhere in the Alps.

Or credit sales. Probably just credit sales.

Scarlatti

Pretty sure Sarapis was referring to quotient of attractive players and pugs in forum photo thread.

Synbios

Scarlatti said:

Pretty sure Sarapis was referring to quotient of attractive players and pugs in forum photo thread.

So now we can start gauging MUD success and popularity by pugs. I can live with that. Or at least @Dunn can.

Sarapis

In this case, revenue/credit sales, as that's the ultimate measure of whether we are a going concern as a business or not. It's not the only metric that matters (everything from retention in every stage of the customer acquisition funnel to various ways of measuring game activity to hard-to-measure factors like player morale, etc all matter), but does tend to serve as kind of an objective measure of "how are we doing?"

Silas

Doesn't surprise me - lots of positive trends from the admin recently, plus Bal'met and Targossas. Looking forward to seeing this continue, and to more grand scale world events.

Jarrod

I take full credit for this from SS credit purchases.

I did the math recently and the numbers are a crazy >.>

Congrats Tecton!

Dunn

I can't get the credit number on CITY ECONSTATUS to move even with yearly sales

Congrats, T!

Decan

Fourth all time, gj! Who was first?

Greys

@Agrias You forgot the number of salmon that spawned.

@Tecton Congrats!

Synbios

Sarapis said:

In this case, revenue/credit sales, as that's the ultimate measure of whether we are a going concern as a business or not. It's not the only metric that matters (everything from retention in every stage of the customer acquisition funnel to various ways of measuring game activity to hard-to-measure factors like player morale, etc all matter), but does tend to serve as kind of an objective measure of "how are we doing?"

Too many words. Let's just go with pugs, boss @Sarapis.

Vayne

Congrats and well done @Tecton, this past year of Achaea was definitely a memorable one!

Utianima

Thanks @Tecton‌! Well done

Caoimhaen

Awesome job @Tecton‌. It has been a real blast.

Taraza

The past year has been fairly interesting in terms of updates and concepts. It will be interesting to see if 2014 will top it. Well done, @Tecton. I definitely look forward to what else you have in store.

Aalm

@Tecton , @Sarapis

The third year of tenure shines well with steel fists of crushing and oppressing and a colorful golden star sticker on each one for special effort. The velvet glove we lost some time last Tuesday. We'll need another one, if only to disguise the sticker so the shrubberies don't think they can stop rustling.