The SCPF genre… Everything I’m about to say will be from experience
Over the many years I’ve been involved in SCPF I’ve realised mostly all games rely on one thing. Players. Without players, you don’t have:
Scientific Tests
Combatives shooting CDs
Breaches
Somewhat fun events
Now I personally have tried to make SCPF after SCPF work but you really have to get lucky with advertising. And unfortunately the SCPF genre cant bring much more for smaller SCPFs.
With small SCPFs you really have to work hard and learn how to do so much. Majority of the time people will use free models as buying certain SCPF assets can range above 500.
For people without budgets or with a lot of robux this sounds like nothing, but imagine having a small scpf, with a functioning site but it relies on playerbase. Without playerbase what can the SCPF owner do? He/She can try to use free model assets/tutorials to make their game better. How would they do this? I actually don’t know. I’ve noticed people in the SCPF genre don’t like massive change. But they like updates and new. So I’m currently at a huge loss of what I should do to keep activity without spending a lot of money.
Hey, I understand you and agree with everything you said.
From past experience, being in over 10 SCPF’s and personally creating groups with a similar genre, I think that before you go public, you should work on your game. Why? Because without a game people will just leave overtime making your group pretty much inactive.
Assuming you still own an SCPF, you should either close it down “for maintenance” to work on your game and once it’s fully complete you should reopen it, or, you can just let your group go inactive for a while and then get active once the game’s complete. If you feel like your group is already a big mess, which I did in the past, you can open a new one, it’s always okay to do that.
Now when I say “Work on your game” I mean that if you do have any developing skills (Scripting, building, etc) you should actually use them. If not, your 2 options are to either try learn a developing skill and attempt to collaborate with people or just simply gather developers which requires actual payment.
Some people can disagree with what I said here but this is my advice, take it or not.
I just wanted to add also people to kill.
The only problem with SCPF games is they are the only genre that can be too successful. If to many people become security of buy a gamepass then less class-ds are there, and the game just gets boring.
As for keeping activity, try hosting events with free rank ups or guns for class-ds to raid and such, make sure good amounts of security are there to.