Re: [Community-Task] Present PR 1.0 in the best light!
Posted: 2013-08-01 01:16
First off, this is a personal post, not one as a tech support volunteer.
Project Reality is going to have a well needed influx of new players in the next two weeks. One of the selling points for PR is the teamwork based nature of gameplay. It is now up to the veteran community to actually extend their hand out and welcome the new playerbase into their squads, on a daily basis, and show them around our little corner of the gaming internet.
That means:
1. Not locking asset squads to non-Clan members.
2. Not kicking new players from squads if they are floundering.
3. Taking the extra step to help total strangers get acclimated to PR's game mechanics and gameplay style on a regular basis for the coming weeks, during each and every gaming session.
4. Generally providing "teachable moments" admonishments instead of defaulting to the "kick that noob" mentality when dealing with seemingly clueless new players.
5. Be a good human being to those who might not have a strong grasp of the native language on the servers. In many ways, the future of PR is going to be in the developing nations where moderate performance, moderately priced hardware, and fast and reliable enough internet connections are just now becoming widely available.
6. Run some training squads, name them training squads, and take on the task of getting new players up to speed in PR.
7. Be nice enough to point people towards the online manual, which is being updated and will be available hopefully on release day.
8. Invite new players into your gaming clans/groups, let them see and participate in the larger community that has developed around the PR game,
9. The larger clans should break out and run 2 or 3 separate squads, filling the squads out with new players, and working in a mindset of multiple squads working together. Bring in a few clanmates in each squad, use the buddy system with new players, anything you can think of to get new players a good experience during their first impression of Project Reality.
I'm sure there are more things to be said on the matter, but I hope I get the point across with the list above.
The trailer has had over 42,606 views as when I'm posting this thread. With all of us putting our good foot forward to invite new players into the fold, we could see a much higher conversion rate of new players into long term members of the game community.
Don't disrespect the PR Devs and the tens of thousands of man hours volunteered in the last years by acting like a jag-off during the 1.0 release week.
Project Reality is going to have a well needed influx of new players in the next two weeks. One of the selling points for PR is the teamwork based nature of gameplay. It is now up to the veteran community to actually extend their hand out and welcome the new playerbase into their squads, on a daily basis, and show them around our little corner of the gaming internet.
That means:
1. Not locking asset squads to non-Clan members.
2. Not kicking new players from squads if they are floundering.
3. Taking the extra step to help total strangers get acclimated to PR's game mechanics and gameplay style on a regular basis for the coming weeks, during each and every gaming session.
4. Generally providing "teachable moments" admonishments instead of defaulting to the "kick that noob" mentality when dealing with seemingly clueless new players.
5. Be a good human being to those who might not have a strong grasp of the native language on the servers. In many ways, the future of PR is going to be in the developing nations where moderate performance, moderately priced hardware, and fast and reliable enough internet connections are just now becoming widely available.
6. Run some training squads, name them training squads, and take on the task of getting new players up to speed in PR.
7. Be nice enough to point people towards the online manual, which is being updated and will be available hopefully on release day.
8. Invite new players into your gaming clans/groups, let them see and participate in the larger community that has developed around the PR game,
9. The larger clans should break out and run 2 or 3 separate squads, filling the squads out with new players, and working in a mindset of multiple squads working together. Bring in a few clanmates in each squad, use the buddy system with new players, anything you can think of to get new players a good experience during their first impression of Project Reality.
I'm sure there are more things to be said on the matter, but I hope I get the point across with the list above.
The trailer has had over 42,606 views as when I'm posting this thread. With all of us putting our good foot forward to invite new players into the fold, we could see a much higher conversion rate of new players into long term members of the game community.
Don't disrespect the PR Devs and the tens of thousands of man hours volunteered in the last years by acting like a jag-off during the 1.0 release week.
