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(original post by Bahumat in general)
I agree with Bahumat about the fact that quest infos are not really newbie
friendly (frankly most of them are useless for everyone), there should be some
monsie (last mystical navigator?) who would answer to newbies questions about
monsters/areas mentioned in quest descriptions.
Other solution is to rewrite most quest descriptions. If arches/coders of
particulat quests give okay I can contribute to the ones I have completed...
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:wq!
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I agree with Bahumat about the fact that quest infos are not really newbie
friendly (frankly most of them are useless for everyone), there should be some
monsie (last mystical navigator?) who would answer to newbies questions about
monsters/areas mentioned in quest descriptions.
Other solution is to rewrite most quest descriptions. If arches/coders of
particulat quests give okay I can contribute to the ones I have completed...
++B¹
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:wq!
++B¹
(original post by Bahumat in general and reply from Thiamin)
The mud has become much much more newbiefriendly in the past months. Newbies
have recall command, pleasantville and newbiehelpers. Newbie channel has never
been so active as it is today. With Twomis map they can (theoretically) go
where they wish. When I was a newbie there was no hope of finding some place
on the map like that, with only a picture-map without descriptions on it. The
problem here seem to be that newbies do not know where to get information
from. I heard a newbie ask how to find out of church, and he was level 20. How
do you reach level 20 without finding out of church? Well, my point being that
whilst newbies have an easier time these days, they maybe learn less also.
People active on newbiechannel maybe should encourage newbies to read
helpfiles more and explore instead of serving answers on a plate.
just my 2 mowgles. /Malar
The mud has become much much more newbiefriendly in the past months. Newbies
have recall command, pleasantville and newbiehelpers. Newbie channel has never
been so active as it is today. With Twomis map they can (theoretically) go
where they wish. When I was a newbie there was no hope of finding some place
on the map like that, with only a picture-map without descriptions on it. The
problem here seem to be that newbies do not know where to get information
from. I heard a newbie ask how to find out of church, and he was level 20. How
do you reach level 20 without finding out of church? Well, my point being that
whilst newbies have an easier time these days, they maybe learn less also.
People active on newbiechannel maybe should encourage newbies to read
helpfiles more and explore instead of serving answers on a plate.
just my 2 mowgles. /Malar
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Thiamin wrote:
(original post by Bahumat in general)
I agree with Bahumat about the fact that quest infos are not really newbie
friendly (frankly most of them are useless for everyone), there should be some
monsie (last mystical navigator?) who would answer to newbies questions about
monsters/areas mentioned in quest descriptions.
Other solution is to rewrite most quest descriptions. If arches/coders of
particulat quests give okay I can contribute to the ones I have completed...
++B¹
I agree with Bahumat about the fact that quest infos are not really newbie
friendly (frankly most of them are useless for everyone), there should be some
monsie (last mystical navigator?) who would answer to newbies questions about
monsters/areas mentioned in quest descriptions.
Other solution is to rewrite most quest descriptions. If arches/coders of
particulat quests give okay I can contribute to the ones I have completed...
++B¹
keyboard, you just need some bigger friends
I must agree on malar tho on the newbie channel use, people should point out
the right helpfile(if there is one) instead of rightout telling some syntax.
There would be 2 benefits. First newbie could learn how to use helpfiles and
might even learn something new. Second the next time newbie wants to use the
same command he(/she) would have place where to check it without asking.
Also bahumat idea had some credit in it. Currently it is quite hard for a
newbie to get anywhere else than those few areas that have transport posts.
Dunno if they would travel and explore even if they could because even most
higher lvl players dont
. Also bit more info on low level lq:s would prollybe engouraging, because as i remember it, i had no idead where i could do lq
5-> when i was at those levels.
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