How to build a player base (3)

[ipod]

Get rid of that newbie alliance crap. Stop candy coating the game with newbie codes and restrictions. Restrictions makes new players quit. Let them learn the hard way.

[Purify]

Half Baked Idea #3:

You just want to kill noobs don't you???

[Remlak]

whats wrong with killing newbies?

edited, as posted in another thread

[LotuS]

The problem is that Newbies see ZERO player interaction in the newbie galaxy, they are bored out of their skulls cause there is no one and nothing to do.

Currently in beta there is a system implemented for newbies something like:

Newbies take 25% normal damage
Fledgling take 50% normal damage
Begineers take 75% normal damage

The problem with the newbie system is it was designed badly from the start. What newbies need is something like the above in combination with real game player interaction (seeing other people), a good tutorial for SMR, and more than 500 pathetic newbie turns..... perhaps another Tired system for newbie turns.

Newbie gets 2000 newbie turns
Fledgling gets 1500 newbie turns
Beginer gets 1000 newbie turns

All of these things I am sure some of you will play devils advocate in and say its horrificly unbalancing and abusable, but I think the advantages the game could grant to new players serve as a greater incentive for VET alliances, to take on and train a certain number of new players to get the advantages that come with recruiting and training new players. I also think most of us have been around the block a few times and can handle it without to much trouble.

[JettJackson]

rejected