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Dwilight / Re: Dwilight IC and OOC updates and news!
« on: March 05, 2011, 02:50:55 PM »
News from Northern Dwilight.


A rebellion is breaking out in Averoth.  :o  Shock horror.  :P

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Development / Re: New Player Retention
« on: March 05, 2011, 02:46:16 PM »
I am an extremely new player (perhaps 1 month) and so have had recent experience with two different characters revealing two extremely different experiences.

My character on Atamara and more specifically Tara, sent me a lengthy message to begin with. He was the only mentor of the realm and explained how he was busy in real life and couldn't commit to a full lesson program but would answer any questions I had. I decided it would be easier to just read the manual and, so far, have found Battlemaster relatively easy to understand (only the basics though, military tactics etc. I guess will take more time and experience). Reading on the wiki it seems some players create whole lesson plans and guides which seems very in depth and it's interesting when players take their role of a mentor seriously (as fun roleplay material more than a chore). This is certainly a minority however.

My experience on Dwilight (Morek) was, simply put... rubbish. I became a student, messaged the mentors asking who would take me as their student(I believe there was around 3/4) and none responded! I decided to just carry on and get to grips with the realm happenings myself (read the wiki) but I can see how disheartening this would be for most people and prevent many newcomers staying on.  :(

In short, I believe mentors absolutely essential for retaining new players and anything that would encourage mentors to play their role well would greatly help. ^_^

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This Forum / Re: First Impression Sticky
« on: March 02, 2011, 05:31:21 PM »
Pretty snazzy.  ;D

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This Forum / Re: Opt-In Advertisement
« on: March 01, 2011, 09:50:31 PM »
I find the leaderboard ad a great deal more tolerable than the skyscraper one which seems to distorte my screen somewhat. Personally, I'm willing to keep it on. However I am a fairly new player and can see how, for those who have been playing for a long time, the ads would be more distracting and ruin the immersion. It's opt-in at the end of the day so I feel it already accomodates for everyone.  ;D

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