Discussion about starting locations for new players
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I would suggest making a start in a random city. Then the population would be spread evenly. Those who know the game and so get to the right place, and beginners will be able to cooperate in remote places. If they need to get to some other city, they will have a goal / incentive to learn how to cooperate with other players from this zone. I also think that chat for noobs is a very useful thing, as well as tutorial. Yellow flag for noobs not bad thing too.
I can agree on yellow flag.
Random start city is bad idea since not all of them offer good environment for new players and they not supposed to be evenly populated by design.
I would like to be able to help my friends who want to try the MO2 and it would be easier to introduce them to the game if they start in the location where I can provide some support.
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Very first experience is birth, next is survival. If you don't succeed, the reward is death to find the light. Very simple
having haven as a starting area is fine. its actually necessary on launch to handle the inrush of players since they'll be able to make multiple haven instances i guess.
two things for sure tho:
haven needs a better new-player experience for those not familiar with MO1 and how things work, something to guide players on how to do various tasks without having to read a wall of text. part of this experience needs to be dying and how to recoup after losing everything
let players leaving haven choose their starting location on myrland so people playing together can find eachother. upon reaching your new 'home' city, there should be a care package there of some kind with some basic gears to help you get started.
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two things for sure tho:
- no yellow flags (or whatever the equivalent would be with the new flagging system) outside of haven
- no items can transfer from haven to the mainland. no idiocy like keeping a bank full of materials to come with you. this also needs to be made clear to new players that they wont be keeping any of the items they horde in haven
haven needs a better new-player experience for those not familiar with MO1 and how things work, something to guide players on how to do various tasks without having to read a wall of text. part of this experience needs to be dying and how to recoup after losing everything
let players leaving haven choose their starting location on myrland so people playing together can find eachother. upon reaching your new 'home' city, there should be a care package there of some kind with some basic gears to help you get started.
-barcode
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