While I can appreciate Peri's sentiment, I don't share it personally. There's a significant knowledge gap between experienced players and newer players, and if sharing some of that knowledge results in higher levels of retainment
and a greater challenge, I'm all for it. And I'll be brutally honest: some of the older players have wrongheaded ideas about some parts of the game, but they had to learn it on their own and don't know any other way. Everyone could benefit from this, including me.
So what I've heard so far is:
- It's a good idea.
- There may be resources out there that can be re-used.
- We should probably do this in the Helpline subforum.
Here's what I'm thinking:
Topics would be things like "Ask me about..."
- being a General
- battle formations
- war strategy
- being a Banker
- taxes
- running a Republic
- mastering Courtier/Diplomat/insert class here
- infiltration
- the first/second/third/nth invasion
- some old realm that no longer exists but people still talk about wistfully—lookin' at you, Oligarch and Ubent
People can specifically request topics in the master thread, and volunteers can take them up in a separate thread. I'd like these separate threads to be a back-and-forth between a single volunteer and everyone who has questions. This is not an opportunity for you to barge into a thread with your conflicting opinions. If you feel that you have knowledge to share, we can line up an entire "symposium" on what it means to be a good General, for example. I'm kind of hoping it turns out that way, in fact.
Thoughts?