@onlyonepinman I merely assumed that you were more aware of the dropzone related things, because you mentioned a facebook group. I’m not into facebook so don’t know if there is any indicator of community size/activity to be gleaned from those groups.

It’s tricky for us to know what kind of news items are in the teams’ pipeline and what things aren’t, which could result in us overfilling their pipeline.

News sites often have an option to send links/articles to the teams, which they can then use as yet another source of things to post.

@jamescutts interesting idea. I think the project system could serve that purpose too (if it weren’t so damned slow at times).
There must be interesting statistics to be had based on activity that could help the indie teams. I’d say the ‘indie of the week’ does help highlight some of the more esoteric and small companies out there. Maybe a similar themed repeating news item could help keep momentum going for other systems as well ?

One issue is that we don’t know the workload of the team. What looks like a ‘slow news week’ to us could very well be them being busy with all sorts of (future) plans, which reduce their capacity to write and post interesting news articles.

btw: I kind of like how we’re seeing more generic non-news articles on the site like the recent one about Starwars.

It is fascinating how some systems manage to keep going with very little ‘news’ while others appear to be ‘dead’ when they don’t post regular updates. Maybe it is related to the momentum within the respective communities ?

And companies like TT Combat have their own reasons for focusing a bit more energy on certain ip’s in their portfolio.

Maybe Dropfleet games sell themselves at a ‘good enough’ pace?
Or maybe Carnevale needs a bit of extra help ?
Or it could be a matter of focus by TT Combat themselves.

I’d always argue that if we are passionate about a specific system then we should be doing something positive instead of complaining. (granted … a lot of that ‘doing’ does require a project system and forum with a bit more hamster power 😉 )