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Unread 17 Jun 2009, 19:56   #51
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Re: Planetarion Banner

Lobsters format with a better font (and faster text display, it was slow on my comp) and better content would be a good option.
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Re: Planetarion Banner

My version was large due to the glow effect around the text (flash doesnt support glows), so the way it encoded it was by actually rendering each frame as a single image. The end result is a big file, which looks good, but hurts on slower connections.
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Re: Planetarion Banner

Just posting in agreement with the last few posts that some form of merge between the two (Lobster's design, Pete's wording) is a good way to go.

Alternating between a simple design (like Lobster's) and a good flashy/complex one (similar to Pete's current design but less cartoony and generally better looking), that share the same or similar text would be interesting.
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Re: Planetarion Banner

I think the "No breaks" wording should be removed until you can prove that we can play a round with no breaks. Otherwise it's false advertising.
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Re: Planetarion Banner

when will we see any of those Banners anywhere floating around ?
before ticks start or not ?

and where ?
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Re: Planetarion Banner

I've designed hundreds of banners for eBay. What I've learned with them is how to improve the CTR.
ATM both banners (official + MrLobster) look like movies... there is no call to action and no hint on the game being free to play (in other words they don't fly).
From experience:
- animation doesn't improve the click rate, it only allows you to put more information and look cool.


you NEED TO:
- add a "sign up" or "Play now" or " Join the fight" or "Click here" button
- mention somewhere that the game is free
- have as in MrLobster banner the www.planetarion.com link

Now for the transformation rate: where do people go when they click ? the homepage or the sign up page ?
From experience:
- don't promise something you don't deliver, Mr Lobster banner looks much closer to the reality of the game than the official banner and its flying ships. If people feel they've been tricked into clicking, it will be worse than them not clicking the banner at all.

I'm basing my comments on weeks if not months passed analyzing all kind of banners click rates. The difference is huge if you have a click here button (not a link). You'd be surprised if I showed you the most effective eBay banner ever...
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Re: Planetarion Banner

Regarding the design itself:
The logo is ridiculously big, you should keep it static and small (personnal taste: the font of the logo itself is good enough, all the design around it is a loss of space and weakens the logo... it's a logo on crutches).

Regarding the message:
I'm not convinced that saying "hey look this is planetarion you play 7 weeks but you will lose anyway" is the right way to catch people interest.
You should play on PAs strength, it's community:

"f*ck, f*ck, f*ck I have 100,000 ships attacking me"
"Cool down mate, I'm sending you some help"
"Hey guys, I can organize a counter attack on this bugger ?"
"Go for it !"

Want to join the fight ? Click here, it's free

For each sentence you would use a portrait of a real player (displayed on some cool com device screen), and you could even use their existing nicks.
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Re: Planetarion Banner

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You'd be surprised if I showed you the most effective eBay banner ever...
now you have my attention..and interest..so do share.
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