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Fonline2238, a best start for newcomers?
runboy93:
Starting alone is too risky :/
Why not ask friends to play with you?
Makes game more easier.
TKs-KaBoom:
This game is really a niche game and will never support huge numbers. It's sad to say but for the most part you're not going to be able to drag somebody from their 360 and convince them to spend the week or so on this game to even begin to appreciate its depth of substance.
Wind_Drift:
Yes, the game is difficult for newcomers. All the usual scapegoats are already listed. "Too hard to get a tent", "PK's", "No one helped them", etc. It's none of those.
The reason it took me two weeks to get my first tent with my first character, and 20 minutes with my last new character, is because I had already overcome the steep learning curve present in this game.
It's hard for new players, simply because they do not know. Look at this. http://www.fo2238.fodev.net/wiki/Advice_for_beginners
Rent a hotel room? lolz
Shovel shit? That advice is so terrible it's almost insulting.
Buy brahmin hides? Good luck.
Seriously, is that the best support offered to new players? No wonder it's difficult for them to get the basics. "But they can search the forum lolz". Yeah, they could. Obviously they don't. I took the advice on the wiki when I first started, and knowing what I know now... it's fucking terrible advice.
If players want more people to play (and we do), we help them by telling them all the stuff they need to know.
If devs or other important people want more people to play, then stop prominently displaying such shit advice, which only wastes their time, and makes it more difficult for new players than it needs to be. Of course there is a ton of information on the wiki that IS useful, but you would have to scour it for days before playing to collect it all. Obviously, no one does that.
That's my opinion, and it's worth exactly what you paid for it.
Wind_Drift:
--- Quote from: TKs-KaBoom on October 20, 2011, 07:36:13 PM ---This game is really a niche game and will never support huge numbers. It's sad to say but for the most part you're not going to be able to drag somebody from their 360 and convince them to spend the week or so on this game to even begin to appreciate its depth of substance.
--- End quote ---
Oh, and this.
OskaRus:
With a decent player market or auction (not just useless merchants for grinding caps) every noob would see the prices of hides and could shovel shit for an hour or so and make tent without knowing a thing about this game.
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