I keep waiting for banners for people to place in their signatures on other forums. I tried to start a competition but no one responded - sad truly. I think a large part of the success of this title will be based solely on the backs of the beta testers (read as gorilla marketing) and their efforts to promote the game. I know I have been doing my part. I think I can account for well over two dozen sales at the moment and many more in the near future if things go well.

TV ads for Sins have been ruled out a long time ago, as I remember - costs too much

I agree "word of mouth" is the most efficient for getting people interested. That coupled with community based promotions or as I stated in my prior post "gorilla marketing" make a powerful combination.

For what it is worth I finished the first batch of banner ads. You can get them here

I plan on making a couple dozen more with different styles such as ones featuring the races and in game imagery.

I started a thread for this here but the thread was trashed with juvenile posts.

I hope some marketing attention will be payed to good old Europe as well since UK and specially German RTS market is huge!

All sounds good though and as i said in previous post - deliver the stunner and rest of the puzzle will come together naturally - like domino effect...

Screw paraphrasing!

If its all like what you said - they are WIMPS!

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I found out about this game in PC gamer and didnt really chek it out till i got bourd and found it on the internet. Really glad i did

Word-of-mouth FTW!

I occasionally mention the game to some people...

Spartan, i dont know if you are able to do this (given some time and paint.net and my computer back, i could) but are you able to make the phrases (eg.are you a sinner?) the same silvery-bluish tinge that the title is up top? when i think a sins title, it is usually red (planet) and black. but the part that stands out the most is the title, because it is a colour that doesnt fit in with the background. all im saying is that the yellow doesnt 'feel' like sins. see if you can make a gradual change from light blue to silver, bottom to top, witht he text, justlike the title. also, the background is slightly stretched, see if you can un stretch it. if its stretched because the banner needs to be a certain width, then just copy and paste the edges and add them on, to make the picture wider. hold on, ill see if i can download paint.net to this peice of junk laptop (it doesnt even deserve that title, maybe 'glowing junk') and show you.

This is some random thing i did, dont think its the right size to be a banner, but can you see what ive done? i havnt streached the image, and the text is grey on bottom, white on top. i could have done better, but thats a five minute job...

Not bad at all. However sadly enough as kosc pointed out, it would need to smaller and more horizontal for most forums.

BTW: call me crazy but I always took the gray & white text to simply be not finished since it is so "raw" looking.

eh hate to burst the bubbles of those here in the USA, but UK,Germany etc all have a large pc gaming consumer population then the US does. This was known a year ago when sales for the year came out. While in the US, consols rule now, pc is subpar all of them beyond the WOW sales. While I am all for pc here in the US, it is what it is, not marketing in the UK and beyond would be a bad thing. However as Yarlen said, they have something lined up so thats cool. Just pointing out, don't think the US is in top sales anymore of PC, if you do, your sadly mistaken at the actual markets now.

Great! That was what I was thinking. The lay out of the text on the "dead space" is most elegant and reasonible.