As staff, we have a lot of plans in that direction, including new advertising, website upgrades, and more. As a player, there are several ways you can contribute:

1) Voting helps. That little button in the upper right takes seconds to click, but delivers free publicity.

2) Several MUD sites allow player reviews. We always appreciate accurate, informative reviews of our game.

- Top MUD Sites (upper right) is one.
- MudConnector (http://www.mudconnect.com/content.html) is another.
- MudMagic (Formerly Kyndig, http://www.mudmagic.com/articles/Reviews/) is a third.
- The Mud Slide (http://www.themudslide.com/read_review.html?user_id=&session=) is a newish site that looks to be trying to build.
- MUD Companion (http://www.mudcompanion.com/guidelines.php#reviews) may accept player reviews.
- MUDlists (http://www.mudlists.com) accepts reviews, and you can also vote/rate CF from our page there. We now have our own forum there as well (http://mudlists.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?b-101616/) where you can post review material.
- Most Popular Sites (http://www.mostpopularsites.net/mtree/Games/MUDS/Carrion_Fields.html) is a very new site that has been getting us a few hits recently, and we'd profit by building more of a presence there. They accept reviews and allow you to rate the MUD on a 1-to-5 scale.

3) Several of the above MUD-related sites have forums, and appropriately mentioning CF there can help. Please do not cross over into spamming or threadjacking, however.

4) Donations help, especially as we consider our own advertising options. Consider the number of hours you get out of CF, and compare it to what you'd pay for (and get from) an off-the-shelf game. Sending in a check (or just unlocking a bunch of people on the Premium Battlefield) helps free up some money to invest in long-term advertising, which will bring in more players.

5) I'm working on getting us to produce a Downloads page where you can grab banner ads, logos, and other images to display on your website, blog, etc. I'd also like to eventually have some printable flyers available in case anyone has a convenient place (like a college) to pin a few up tactfully.

This post is intended to be a "sticky" that we can keep updated. Please don't reply directly to it- rather, start a new thread. Thanks!

valguarnera@carrionfields.com