Re: Re: A poem I wrote about netrek

koneill <xavier.oneill@...> writes:
> At this point, the only idea that comes to mind to promote the game is
> how I and others around me were introduced to it.  I was enrolled in
> the computer engineering program at BU.  Hung around the computer labs
> at MIT/Tufts/BC/Harvard etc.  A bunch of foreign folks were enrolled
> at these colleges too. Heard and seen people talking about it.
> Someone took some time (a 10 minute face-to-face) to bring me aboard.

This is one concept, but with few of us in the right demographic, 
it is a little tricky. I would like to see some netrek lan parties
designed to bring in newbies. 

Other methods are to pimp it on gamer forums, paid advertising,
and to make it easier to learn. The best answer for increasing
ease of learning that I've heard suggested is a tutorial system 
that would walk a newbie through tasks of increasing difficulty; 
first have them steer around a planet change speeds and orbit, 
then learn weapons against very stupid bots, 
maybe a little tractor/pressor practice, then a simple take. 
And the clients need to be a little more newbie friendly, in that
how to send and receive messages needs to be more obvious. Incoming
message windows, especially for direct messages, should blink window
borders or something, and maybe an audio clip saying "incoming message",
and of course a way to switch that off :)

Zach, I liked the poem!

  --andrew b

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