One of our largest clients is a marketing firm and I view marketing a lot like I view design work.

Everybody knows its critically important, yet most people try the "amateur hand" attempt until they realize its not working.

You could go another route (which would be true) and say far too many people overestimate their own abilities in those departments. Its like, if you got in trouble with the law, you'd hire a lawyer. I'm wondering if we can all pitch in and hire a marketing person.

I just feel like we'd get better results out of someone in that career line (like Stunna is), than randomly spamming TMS with reviews hoping after 4 years or whatever it'll suddenly work. Its always been a temporary fix and I think CF needs a bigger injection.

I think the biggest issue is budget. But at this point, I'd say the single biggest problem CF has is lack of players. My last char I feel guilty for even playing. I feel like I'm in a permagroup because I've ranked like 40 ranks with the same 2-3 people. Why? Because *there is no one else*. Short of solo ranking, I had no choice.

Its getting pretty bad and I think we need to start branching out in our tactics. I think if we had something we wanted to do and an estimate on what it would cost the playerbase would come together and pitch in the money. Obviously we're not going to run commercials on Fox, but at the very least maybe try to fully explore the free options that aren't TMS.