I'm really just wondering. We've built our server on dedicated servers, strong solid plans for making content, tweaking some core code from mangos to make stats cap at 70% for e.g. and building the funserver which atm holds over 1200 custom items. We built custom instances and all is well and good... BUT.
No players. Nada - Null. I have acquired strong knowledge, very short of mastering it of course, but still valid knowledge of the server, but I just lack the knowledge for gaining the playerbase's attention. Our few players congratulated us on the server, and they had great fun leveling and ploughing through the various content, but they slowly chat up to me and while amazed at our work, they say "I'm slowing down a bit from your server since it lacks players".
It becomes fairly frustrating; are there ways to deal with this? Does it just take time? (Been over 1 and a half months now) and does voting on toplists really mean anything? We ain't really budged player-wise, and we're all too willing to house various players now...
Lonehwolf
P.S. Ain't providing website link since I don't want this to be an advert. Just trying to grab some ideas, here.