Topic

2nd Greeter offer or delayed initial Greeter option

I started my account last week (Oct. 27th) so I am guessing I am one of the few who have experienced the newer tutorial and Greet option.

It's all kind of a blur now:  I had been released into the world and had just milked one of the butterflies, running and jumping trying to find it again to milk it, when the Magic Rock asked me if I wanted to be greeted.  WELL, NO!  I wanted my milk. If I accepted its offer, would it whisk me away somewhere new AGAIN after I just spent a chunk of my pitiful energy level massaging?

I really do think the option came within 5 minutes of release into the larger area (maybe it was still in the tutorial land, but everything was overwhelmingly new and sparkly, so I can't recall)  -- and I declined, thinking I could ask the Magic Rock to summon a Greeter later at my leisure and especially after I had some time and experience to actually formulate questions.

Around Level 5, I started getting confused and wishing I had someone to ask a few questions of ... and my experience after a week of running into other level 5s is that really is the time where you've got the basics down but someone hands you guano and splits before you can ask them why you need bat droppings.

I think preferably the offer for greeting should be delayed longer until a player has her feet under her and a grip on all of those quests popping up every few minutes -- I'm not sure what triggers greeting:  x minutes spent online? -- but definitely the offer should be repeated again at level 4 or 5 or with an offer to repeat for those experienced players to decline if they're creating multiple accounts.

And thank you, phelps.mike, for prodding me to suggest this.

Posted 14 months ago by Flake Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • excellent suggestion. I never had a greeter and did a lot of stupid things. Fortunately, I did not die until I knew about the grapes. I really could have used a greeter at level 5. There is sooooo much going on when your feet first hit the land of Ur.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I know this sounds weird, but I didn't figure out the chat system until I had joined a group.  Then I discovered global chat too.

    I'd suggest the solution a lot of MMOs use.  Have a "new player" chat channel that is ONLY available to players under a certain level (maybe level 11?) and Greeters. It is automatically opened for new players.  Greeters would make sure young Glitchen get questions answered without the flippant answers sometimes given in global chat, direct them to Live Help if necessary, and offer extra opportunities to get a personal Greeter if you decline the rock's first offer.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awww...I got called out ;) Maybe an option in the help button to page a greeter. That way anyone could get help called to them if needed.
    Posted 14 months ago by phelps.mike Subscriber! | Permalink
  • New player + Live Greeters channel = Excellent idea.
    Posted 14 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Lucille Ball:  excellent point about the chat forum -- I know there's a group formed, but it's so far down the Group list pages, no one knows of it or is ever in the channel.  I also played other MMOs that delayed access to Group Chat type channels until the player character leveled sufficiently so the players would use Help, newbie and local chats and not get confused by advanced talks
    Posted 13 months ago by Flake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • At the start of the game I found the rock intensely annoying. After my first try at Glitch I quit b/c of the rock. Luckily, I have friends here from another game and was prodded into giving it another shot.

    The rock does throw too much information too fast. I can definitely see the need for a delayed greeter or one that can be summoned later.

    @Flake-unfortunately to catch those new glitchies that need help most it would have to be a dev side enrollment in the group. 
    Posted 13 months ago by M<3tra, obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe have different levels of HELP listed. 
    General game question:
    Bug report:
    and the third would only be for lvl 1-8
    New Glitch help line: - could be tied into the greeter database and the IM would goto one of them.
    Posted 13 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • cool:)
    Posted 13 months ago by Epaige58 Subscriber! | Permalink