Public 'explore mode' servers for beginners
YoungTrotsky
Join Date: 2007-03-09 Member: 60307Members
Join Date: 2007-03-09 Member: 60307Members
I was just responding to a thread in the general discussion forum about rookies having/causing trouble on public servers and had this idea:
Make some of the official servers run explore mode so that new players can learn this stuff but actually have a few enemies to play with, I think people would be willing to spend more time learning from explore mode if they weren't alone on the server. These should obviously be clearly labelled in the server browser and, if possible, maybe only let people with rookie mode turned on join them.
I fear that sadly some action would probably be required to deter trolls from turning on rookie mode and joining these servers to pwn the noobs, because we all know how much fun that can be for a certain type of person. I'm not quite sure how you would do this, unless you set a hard limit on max. hours played (using steam data). Maybe reduce all damage by 90% or teleport players back to base/hive whenever they get a kill.
Make some of the official servers run explore mode so that new players can learn this stuff but actually have a few enemies to play with, I think people would be willing to spend more time learning from explore mode if they weren't alone on the server. These should obviously be clearly labelled in the server browser and, if possible, maybe only let people with rookie mode turned on join them.
I fear that sadly some action would probably be required to deter trolls from turning on rookie mode and joining these servers to pwn the noobs, because we all know how much fun that can be for a certain type of person. I'm not quite sure how you would do this, unless you set a hard limit on max. hours played (using steam data). Maybe reduce all damage by 90% or teleport players back to base/hive whenever they get a kill.