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freakbreed
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I have played several games that had a "new player guild" that new toons were automaticly put in. I think Neverwinter should work out a system like this the guild officers are volunteer and answer game related questions for new players and aid new players in quest that require help from more advanced players. It will also allow new players to form groups in areas and zones of the game that are hard to form groups in. In the two games i have played that had a system like this in place I enjoyed the gameplay more and stuck with the game where i normally would have quit due to the lack of in game aid or information. Asking questions in zone chat can be more harmful than helpfull sometimes.
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Maintenance on this could be minimal if you made all PW accounts level 7 and rotated volunteer Care Bears in from maybe 10-20 random level 10+ guilds every month or so to serve as officers by invitation, helping new players learn the ropes and discouraging bad behavior right off the bat
Bots, spammers, dedicated solo players and new toons destined for other guilds would most likely quit immediately, but if you guys have any staff monitoring for bad behavior this would severely lessen the group of new players those folks would have to watch
This would be a potentially awesome community experiment that would require almost no code whatsoever and very little commitment from Cryptic while possibly providing some excellent returns on many much needed levels
Our guild members also assist if someone needs help with Vault or something like that
How this gets done depends on the group's skill level, gear and experience as well as how they want to run
Being in the position of controlling the challenge, I can heal, buff, tank or dps as needed by simply swapping powers, pets or loadouts
This is generally on level 70 content, but if the devs actually fix level scaling as they indicated they may on the stream, this kind of methodology should work in low level dungeons as well, especially since the three man content doesn't really require much in the way of tanking, buffs or heals
I think anyone, properly scaled, could walk through those dungeons giving more advice than actually helping, and that would probably be the best way to help new players to learn what to do
If that's even needed... I imagine the leaders would likely spend more time answering questions and giving directions in chat and generally babysitting
Thinking about this a little more, trying to think about potential problems, I imagine this should be an Alliance with guilds determined by languages spoken, which would probably make less of a mess of it all... but the dev team would have more data on that distribution
It may be also that the volunteer officers would need some light mod powers such as temp muting a player that gets a bit rowdy, and abusable player abilities such as mass reporting alleged spammers might have to be suspended for newbies to curtail griefing
I still really like this idea and hope it gets some attention
Dungeon guide for new player.
1. Enter a queue
2. Wait for dungeon instance
3. Follow twinkly golden stars ahead of you
4. Beat the HAMSTER outa anything running towards you
5. Enter the final room
6. Beat the HAMSTER outa the big geezer
7. Open glowing chest if there is one
8. Leave
9. Rinse and repeat for evermore!!!
Now go tell them all
time is also an issue; people have rl's, the limited time in game is now spent grinding not leaving much time to look around and smell the flowers. the way the game has been heading has made players much more selfish with time out of necessity. unfortunately this means a measure of the community spirit disappears.
events such as x2 refining etc don't help much in this; in the mad scramble to hoard as much as possible lower level players get forgotten.
what also needs to be acknowledged is the fact that there are simply fewer people playing that could help by responding to request in zone.
in short there are issues and merit in what is being asked for but until deeper problems are addressed i sadly don't think this will change.
atm i am so bored running the same higher level content over and over i am more than happy to answer any help asks in chat, i miss much of the early game content that was more story and character driven and love dipping back in...so