NewPlayer attaction and other things

[paganmagick]

I have noticed we have less players on average as before
so would like to make a few suggestions

1) Expand the newbie dungeon take what you have now and make it so a player who just starts can run in and survive take what you blocked off and make it so they need to be close to spec one

2) Make it so Player towns can purchase a warrior for hire this will help in a couple of ways first it will gave new players another reason to join a P town and will cut down on the individual ones

3) Sell Minoc to a crafters union that allows only crafters so the town maybe developed ( I would of course drop the vendors in town down to 1 of each or none if i did this ) and keep it a neutral town this would put more players in the town that most new players start in and with fewer vendors in minoc players will have to go to P towns to get there supplys or buy from players and adds to the selling point for the P towns

4) I have seen alot on recalling on both the forums and in game here is yet another suggestion on the subject a Travel merchant ( Maybe some Demon or Non player race ) that will send you to a single spot (or some times instead you land in the middle of a random dungeon ) for a large amount of gold ( 10 or 20K ) and that spot has to be the closet town or within the same faction and Maybe an allied town
This is a and/or selling a scroll that allows recall back to the merchant but only has 1-2 every 8 hrs or longer and costs double (20 or 40K of course with the same chance of instead ending up in a random dungeon )
And lastly Limiting the number of mechants to 1-2 plus number of towns in factions and costing 3-6 mill plus an aditional 3-6 to sell the scrolls

5) Here is a easy why to get players to join player towns lockable doors and gates put them on your vendors and town features maybe lockable gates on the city walls

[Prometheus]

It's absolutely certain that something major needs to happen. Me and the staff have been discussing a lot of possibilities together.

The 1st Age has been a period from which I've learned a lot. Some key changes will occur when the 2nd Age starts and they'll be geared around learning from mistakes and rebuilding the playerbase.

1. The Newbie Dungeon will be gigantic when I'm done with it. I've been working on it recently.

2. Warriors for Hire are available on provisioners.

4. Allowing recalling is an option.

5. Mayors can already target and click players they want banned from their towns.

[trapani]

i think recalling will help towards the growth of this shard. as much as some people might not like it, some things gotta be done

[valasca]

Couldn't disagree more.

Before this shard I had never considered a no recalling shard but in the last few days I've seen it in action having got a house and some gear.

E.g.
I ran to the player town by the swamp to trade some bits and ran into another player town on the way in a very well used crossing. If there had been anybody in the player town it would have been a good bit of action.

PVP without people just running and recalling is also something I'm looking forward to.

When you need to work for something it means more to you and is more fun. Even if it was harder at the time. It's the same as buying a new game and then cheating your way to the best gun or the end of the level. Takes all the challenge out of it.

[Simon Grey |Legion|]

recall and gate would be nice, modified, like with 10 sec delay, while youre frozen
during my time on ZH i obtained mastery in skill of avoiding ppl 8) and running away - some ppl just dont wannt to do pvp, so bite me
recalling for me is just a way of fast travel, not some getaway spell
btw, another thing about getting fresh blood is making some silly simple quests for starting chars, that older players wouldnt be interested with
example: seer asks ppl to get him a pig - first player gets 5k, second gets 4k, third 3k, fourth 2k and last one 1k gold for a pig
nothing big, nothing special
have a few ideas about diffrent quests as well