A Helping hand to new empires

qwerty360: sorry bout the cussing.


No, the missions don`t do that great of a job. In fact they are absolutely detrimental to newbies. I`m glad you brought them up...let`s take a look at the missions?

terran missions require you to have 5 infra levels in commerce
aminer missions require you to have 5 lvls in industry

For newbie terrans who decide to go commerce because of the missions and then be told to restart and chose agriculture - this is not very fun at all

For newbie aminers to pick industry and then realize the potential of mineral/tax as sources of income is not very fun either.

So perhaps we need to fix missions as well: take away the fixed infrastructure requirements for them.

it is very clear that after playing this game for several months on the turn base server (normal), that this is a another on-line game in which new players can never hope to succeed in. The game is designed in such a way that long-term players have such an inherent advantage over new players that the best a new player can hope to achieve is to become mid-level fodder for the long-term players. Until the designers and the administrators of this game provide a more balanced playing field, this game will not recieve a positive recommendation within the on-line gaming community. It is a shame, I thought this game showed a lot of promise for "newbies" but it fails to deliver on that promise.

that`s the problem, lmao....the manual doesn`t help in telling you what income paths to go and such.

At least add a section in the helpfiles titled: Economy: how to make money or something

Edited by qwerty360 on 2010-03-07

Meh..dont need training feds...people need to read the manual an not be lazy :O

The mineral idea is good I guess:

What about actually updating the helpfiles or introducing more training feds? There is a training fed on normal and we do our part to help retain players, but maybe there should be more training feds on all the servers.