Hey, while meditating around a bit, I noticed something which started to trigger me...
Basically, I have 2 suggestions to help keep more new players stay on Empire War LOTR siege server.
Tutorial
Basically, we all know what 98% of players brings on Empire War: Lord Of The Rings
A GREAT majority of players (if not all) join the community for the Lord of The Rings (and such). That means that we (I'll be using we refering to the eldar community) need to show them that it's the right adress, that it's correctly and doubtlessly a LOTR server. As so, when new players join, they get into tutorial which is decorated as Osgiliath. That's exactly where a little problem occurs: how can one guess it's a LOTR location?
I suggest redoing some tutorial parts (mostly only intro and outro) to be Helm's Deep. Everyone would recognize it rather than the piece of Osgiliath that we use. It's hard to disagree, that when seeing Helm's Deep in tutorial you instantly think "Oh, it's legit a LOTR server".
Now, using the current siege Helm's deep might be too big for the tutorial part, but our great helpers from EpicQuestz can build a miniature version withing days if not hours (not too miniature but like 2x smaller than the current one or something like that). Then, once it's ready, Empire War staff crew takes their time to, chillfuly, setup the changed tutorial. That's all. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY ITS HARD, LONG OR NOT A PRIORITY
If it's not priority, that doesn't mean don't do it. That means that it either should be done during free time or slowly, at the left hand. It's okay to wait a month or two after the staff is done with implementing the current upcoming update.
Spawn
Yes, I built spawn and agree it doesn't really feel LOTR... but here again I resume the subject of new players wanting to feel Lord of the Rings at FIRST SIGHT (since I totally agree that after the first impressions, the server is very LOTR).
So what is really needed here, is atleast color/retexture the lobby map specific. They already have 3D paintings/maps, that's right. But that's not enough, or atleast it won't hurt, and only do better, I swear.
That's also not only a pleasure for new player's impressions, but for the community that knows Empire War already close enough.
So as I said, there is no need to think too soon about it, but it would be nice if it started getting thought about. Atleast put to work 1 or 2 spare crew members.
Edit 30/07/2018
I also analyzed the message in the first tutorial step, which is also giving doubt, is it a LOTR server?
All you say is "Empire War" but how are new players seeking for Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth combat supposed to guess that this is the right server? In order to fix this, CLEARLY point out that this is lotr (either a nice Pixel art in a hologram or just boring font like usual)
Basically, I have 2 suggestions to help keep more new players stay on Empire War LOTR siege server.
Tutorial
Basically, we all know what 98% of players brings on Empire War: Lord Of The Rings
A GREAT majority of players (if not all) join the community for the Lord of The Rings (and such). That means that we (I'll be using we refering to the eldar community) need to show them that it's the right adress, that it's correctly and doubtlessly a LOTR server. As so, when new players join, they get into tutorial which is decorated as Osgiliath. That's exactly where a little problem occurs: how can one guess it's a LOTR location?
I suggest redoing some tutorial parts (mostly only intro and outro) to be Helm's Deep. Everyone would recognize it rather than the piece of Osgiliath that we use. It's hard to disagree, that when seeing Helm's Deep in tutorial you instantly think "Oh, it's legit a LOTR server".
Now, using the current siege Helm's deep might be too big for the tutorial part, but our great helpers from EpicQuestz can build a miniature version withing days if not hours (not too miniature but like 2x smaller than the current one or something like that). Then, once it's ready, Empire War staff crew takes their time to, chillfuly, setup the changed tutorial. That's all. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY ITS HARD, LONG OR NOT A PRIORITY
If it's not priority, that doesn't mean don't do it. That means that it either should be done during free time or slowly, at the left hand. It's okay to wait a month or two after the staff is done with implementing the current upcoming update.
Spawn
Yes, I built spawn and agree it doesn't really feel LOTR... but here again I resume the subject of new players wanting to feel Lord of the Rings at FIRST SIGHT (since I totally agree that after the first impressions, the server is very LOTR).
So what is really needed here, is atleast color/retexture the lobby map specific. They already have 3D paintings/maps, that's right. But that's not enough, or atleast it won't hurt, and only do better, I swear.
That's also not only a pleasure for new player's impressions, but for the community that knows Empire War already close enough.
So as I said, there is no need to think too soon about it, but it would be nice if it started getting thought about. Atleast put to work 1 or 2 spare crew members.
Edit 30/07/2018
I also analyzed the message in the first tutorial step, which is also giving doubt, is it a LOTR server?
All you say is "Empire War" but how are new players seeking for Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth combat supposed to guess that this is the right server? In order to fix this, CLEARLY point out that this is lotr (either a nice Pixel art in a hologram or just boring font like usual)
