Ember Online

We are having a problem keeping new players especially if they don’t use the /newbie command. At this point we can’t tell who is new and who really isn’t. What if something was put ingame that checked a players computer ID or MAC address when they made an acct and if they were an actual real new player it broadcasted to the world

>>><<< Everyone welcome “Gigglebox” to Ember Online!>>><<<

This would be announce global so everyone could see and attempt to help the play and strike up social conversation and help get them in guilds and find friends and keep them interested. Like I said I try to help new players, but if they don’t use /newbie I have no idea who is new and who isn’t when a new character is made. Thoughts everyone?

/newbie is auto on new accounts though. It wouldn't really change because people who abuse it to pretend to be new simply use a different computer, spoof their IP, use a VPN, etc. It might be a good idea though to announce new characters (first time logins) though so people have some sort of knowledge, which is a good idea, though regardless you can't trust if they are new players or not, too easy to spoof.

Yeh, there are a few games that announce new players/characters. I +1 this
Actually... there was a game that gave me a ticket that you could sell to a player... some chap bought mine for heaps of money. I digress though.

I like it.

This is a great idea. I would even suggest the message gets queued up for veterans (maybe for ones that have /helper turned on) so when they first log on they can see all the new players since they last login.

Ohko wrote:This is a great idea. I would even suggest the message gets queued up for veterans (maybe for ones that have /helper turned on) so when they first log on they can see all the new players since they last login.

Good idea too.

I think this is a good idea.

I would introduce two things:
- Make a ban-able offence to pretend to be a newbie: You can argue that newbes get given advantages that vets dont, which is true. And it will be bad if people abuse the system
- Allow people to at registry say that they are NOT newbies, for the case of veteran players that want a second account.

That's actually a really good idea.

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