Development Cycle Archive

I just checked new new user experience out....

You know, the concept is very good, one I noticed in beta, with some starter missions to guide new players through basic mechanics. This is an outstanding idea.

But starting all new players in the same city, Mos Noobie, is not well advised. It was wall to wall new characters, of course most of them are actually veteran players who created new characters to check out the system. Then there are the poor souls running around asking for someone to teach polearms one in a sea of new characters.

I may send my week old alt to Mos Eisley to get AP, though. A lot of concentrated new players who will need some training.

Also, could it be possible to not have all the n00bie droids be the same color? Make them randomly other colors?

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Pahaddino wrote:

And for new Jedi ?

Does they get a new tutorial ?

Does they start at Mos esley as well ?

All new Jedi will get there trainer on Tatoine from now on if I m not mistaken (since you get your trainer on your starting planet, at least I got mine there).

Good to know for all BH lol.

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Hadn't thought about this, but you're right.

BHs will camp Mos Eisley for easy Jedi kills.

This is ANOTHER smart move on the part of the developers.

Do you guys think ANYTHING out before you implement it?

I went and created a new character to see exactly what the new changes were.I even redid the tutorial for the first time since like August and I had forgotton how cool that space station was. Can't wait till stuff like that is in the game. Anyways stuff seemed to be going fine and I especially liked how I was given a choice of weapon and no longer forced into survival knife and pistol. Then I got some scout skills and decided to see what exactly a harvesting mission is that my droid sent me on.I walked the 900 m and found...nothing. Just a waypoint. I remember how annoying this bug was last fall when it seemed to be everywhere and now it's back and annoying new players. Doesn't seem like a good way to start the game off. Maybe I just missed what I was suppossed to do, but there was nothing there. I was expecting maybe a corpse or something but there was just rocks. Anyways, you might want to fix this, because it might annoy some new people and confuse them more than it did me.

I played through all of the starter professions on TEST and I have to say this is one of the most helpful new player enhancements ever added to the game. Even as a ol'timer I had fun performing the task for each profession and with the rewards as well as the xp it is a WIN WIN situation for a new player as well as quickly teaching them aspects of the UI operations that might have normally taken them longer to understand. Is it something in the works to expand this application to the elite professions in a way that would be purely TEACHING as to allow a player to better understand the special abilities under that elite profession?

I checked out starting a new toon last night as well. I really liked how it all worked out. I was disappointed that I was forced into Mos Eisley, but I didn't do any new player mission. So I never got to the part where you can get a free ticket to another planet. Being dumped in Eisle now doesn't seem so bad. Also it would kind of fit into the whole story arc of the tutorial. Plus it will add life to a town that is mostly dead on Sunrunner. I like it. Well done.

the starting quest for entertainer needs to be tweaked so that if you change your hairstyle, that you're able to change it back to what you had.

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BoberFett wrote:

I don't think you're going to find considerable player traffic in Mos Eisley.

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He'll find the players that are automatically shuttled there, like my new one.

I created a new character to try out the new player experience and I like it very much. This is a great idea that really should have been implemented sooner, but better late than never!

Teaching new players how the game works is a good thing. I mean, I wasn't able to participate in beta and for the first few weeks of the game I had no idea what all the energy ripples were when people were using survey tools, and I had no idea why so many people were kneeling with rocks flying up from the ground around them.

I like the choice of green for the R2. Very appropriate for a new player.

I played the Brawler and Scout missions so far and they are very well thought out and it really gives new players a lot of little tips that they might not have figured out for themselves otherwise.

You might consider adding a few things to brawler and marksman, like an explanation of the numbers next to the target (chance to hit modifier) and maybe the con system, and the fact that kneeling and laying prone will raise your accuracy. (chance to hit) You could work this into the tutorial ormaybe another couple helper droid mini missions like, "try kneeling and shooting at a creature and notice the number next to it will change" "Good, here's a cookie!"

Oh and stuck is misspelled in the conversation when you tell the R2 that you don't need help and he replies something like, "ok, but if you get sutck, just call me."