AfterWorld Survival Forum
Discussions => Ideas and suggestions => Topic started by: karl "oele" maier on August 05, 2013, 11:20:50 pm
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Your well known pain in the butt here .. today I throw something new out. A lot of you longtime players just wait for something to happen with the game .. and we all know that this isn't changing anything. So here is my challenge .. help the game by helping actively the newcomers. For you who followed my posts know how frustrated I got in the beginning .. close to give up and leave the game. Thanks to a some very helpful members I stuck it out and enjoy the game now. Last weekend I found a newcomer .. kinda helpless wandering around .. I offered my help .. gave him a steel pick ( 2/0) and some slag to teach how to repair , put him in my wru so I can help him without having to be around , next day I gave him a dagger and showed him where to start hunting .. next weekend I will show him how to invent blackpowder ( the few resources are worth it). If now some longtime members would do the same to newcomers or similar ( you know each other probably well enough as to the timezones so that not all of you , if any, show up at the same time) we could not only raise the membership of the game but also get some money flowing for the dev's and show them that the game can be viable. And if you think its not worth your time .. when was the last time you heard someone saying " I just got 4 skill advancement units. is that bad? " . I'm not saying this will change everything but its worth a try .
But that's just an old guy talking
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I think it's certainly worth the effort and I wish I had more free time to participate! The hard part is that most of us have become bored out of our minds with NU and picking, though many of us still visit NU from time to time. The other hard part - and likely the bigger problem - is that there is no NU-wide chat so it is very hard to know that someone new needs help unless someone is willing to stand around at the NU outpost for significant chunks of time.
For my part, I'd much rather be out skilling than just sitting around waiting for someone to ask a question - and this is coming from someone who really likes to help out as much as possible!
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well i have been in NU lately hunting and i always try help any newcomer i see. :)
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I know what you mean Jarod .. I probably have the wrong idea of the longtime player base .. had somehow the vision of players spending maybe an hour a day in nu .. trying to catch a newcomer as he/she walks in. With enough players it could be almost a around the clock thing .. but not sure if the game has enough players for that. Anyhow .. seen yesterday a lot of new faces .. thank you all for stopping by .. to me it made the game feel alive.
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Some of the long-time players have more available time than I do and have probably been looking for a reason to log in again. Hopefully helping out in NU is enough for those players and it seems like that just might be the case!