Say "Hello" to n00bs

[Tweety]

This is the beginning of this suggestion:

"237 players are active.
if you know their names you can find them here" as shown in the com list screen.

Some of the reasons?

- the game's getting more and more complex with alle the ships and strategies, a weird forum etc..
- most of the actual players are advanced and overrun n00bs in the beginning for a better score ... thats frustrating for them.
- ....

Long story short: Here's the suggestion:
Why not seperate the players and the complexity into different areas far away from each other?

The actual active part of the galaxy can stay where it is, but a new area out of reach could be added. In this area every n00b will start (you can choose when registering your account) to learn more about the game. There wont be things like CTF and no additional ships on planets (less more complexity).

If you think you're good enough for whatever, you can push the "transfer" button to be transfered into the main (pain) part of the galaxy.

To prevent that expierienced players start in the other galaxy, there's no highscore list, no alliances are available... (btw. every player should have enough brain not to bash n00bs in that area).

Another possibility is to test bots, computer players which build ships out there (Admin, he?).

All in all its a "Spaetrace light" included in the actual framework probably without too much programming work.

What do you think?

[Skyfreak]

as u know, i think the idea rules big time, well done tweety, a different arena perhaps? i find the idea kewl and pratical

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[DarthMother]

Very nice Tweety, i hope the admins can create such an area

[Jort]

I like the idea.

[Brutus]

Yep, like divide Universe in two lol.

And when u play for more then 2 months or something like that, u can go to the other half

[jazzy]

Like in Lion King....
And...Yet....He crossed over....
Brilliant Idea because I always have to shed a tear or two when I see how the new ones are bashed to death for points...
And...we know that they'll eventually grow weiry and leave spacetrace...

[DarthMother]

It's also ment for not leaving spacetrace off course

[no clutch]

Instead or perhaps in addition why not give each player a rating based on his current skill level. It could be based on current score or it could be based on the last 10 or 20 battles and change as they change. Use the rating to adjust the points won or lost in battles with a co-efficent. If the players battling have equal skill ratings the attacks would score as normal. If a player with a higher rating attacks a player with a lower rating then the co-efficent should reduce the amount of points won by the attacker but not have any effect at all if the defender wins the battle. Likewise if a player with a lower rating attacks a player with a higher rating the co-efficient should allow him to gain more points but if the defender wins his only bonus should be that he gets to battle a player with less skill. You should be able to look at a players info to find out his skill level. This should reduce the attacks on new players because the risk would remain the same while the reward would be reduced. Also the higher skilled players would get more battles, and I think that in itself would be welcomed by the majority of them. I think a system like this would encourage everyone to seek out the better players instead of just bashing newbs/n00bs.

[DarthMother]

Then another part of the galaxy creating if less tough than that idea i think, it's a nice idea but I don't think that's gonna work... cause if you lose the last 20 battle more, you have a bad day or days or you are being gangbanged, you get or lose less points... don't like the whole idea actually..

[Skyfreak]

i like the idea too, but its far off from being implemented, but still a good idea, lets try a different arena, much better

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[admin]

this sounds nice, it is not so difficult to implement it, maybe the area is in a region far away. there could be a wormhole to the main battle area.

[jazzy]

[Mighty]

Very good idea indeed,
1 thing though...
does the scores reset when you go to the real world or not?
becuse if doesnt than noobbashers might want to stay in the noob section for longer and bash some noobs and make alot of score before they join the real game!

i think the scores should be reset to 0 . but reserches and other stuff should stay the way they are

that way it makes it like a training section

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[Guidop]

well

damn hate to say this
but like the idea better if is added what mighty said


greetz

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[Mighty]

We can even make it better by allowing people with very high negative scores to return to the toutrial and refresh them self.. so if noobs dont know whats good for them and join the game with out practicing can go back.
off course we dont want every one to do that so we can make an option that if there score is less than -20000 or so they get the option to go back instead of quiiting the game and making a new account (what there doing now.. or just quiting and not coming back)

that way they get to keep there reserch, go learn a lil more and come back when they think they won't mess up again. and than come back to the game with 0 score

offcourse thats more work for admins, but it should be a good way of keeping players in

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[Guest]

so, is this going to happen?

[admin]

we have to discuss a lot of things before we do this.

i think on transfer this should dhappen
- reset the score
- reset the known coords (only if another server, if we manage the newbee section in the same galaxy, the coords could stay)
- evolutiontime and researches will be kept
- you keep your current ships

maybe the transfer works like this:
you can build an intragalactic transwarp ship that has warp 100 which can be used only to fly to your base, so when you transfer, your onldbase gets destroyed and you get a new planet in the main area. you have to fly from your newbee-coords (200/200/50) to your new base within some hours

[promethius2]

Admin, this opens a whole new aspect to the game.
In the future we might even be able to advance this further by putting the veterna players into the 700's. Then having a wormhole to travel from one galaxy to another.
But for now, and forgetting the future for a while, i think this idea rocks.
It will really help noobs advance in the gmae and stop them from getting bashed ect. ect.
WELL DONE TWEETY!
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