Results of the Headmin Debate - New Player Server
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:26 pm
Thanks to Armhulen, Goof, Rave and Lukas for participating, and especially thanks to Sacko who organised the whole thing, moderated and was generally fun and excellent.
I think a place to discuss some of the points we went over would be cool, and I wanted an excuse to post, for discussion with the other candidates who couldn't participate, a particular idea we came to a consensus on.
In debating how we could better accomodate new players as we attempt to make the community more accessible, we settled on an interesting idea: A new player server.
The idea is if you have more than a certain number of hours (The arbitrarily suggested cut off was 100 but this number isn't the important part) you cannot play on this server, it is purely for transitioning new people to the station. They are not locked out of our normal servers, but only new players can join this one. Players with more than the cut off number of hours can APPLY to join the newbie server, with the expectations being they do not abuse their knowledge over new players, play too ruthlessly, and make some effort to help them learn the game mechanics and how to participate in the community. Anyone freely murderboning or powergame validhunting new players with this role, for example, would have their whitelist removed.
This could be a really strong way to give new players a less intimidating starting point to join the community. I don't think we have the influx of new players to make this necessary just yet, but as we expand and touch more mainstream areas like twitch, or get our next youtuber wave, it could help us handle things better than with the last wave.
Also feel free to rate, discuss and debate the results of the conversation.
Here's the debate if you missed it (THANKS FOR RECORDING BOOKTOWER)
[youtube]EZ4qbTSz528[/youtube]
I think a place to discuss some of the points we went over would be cool, and I wanted an excuse to post, for discussion with the other candidates who couldn't participate, a particular idea we came to a consensus on.
In debating how we could better accomodate new players as we attempt to make the community more accessible, we settled on an interesting idea: A new player server.
The idea is if you have more than a certain number of hours (The arbitrarily suggested cut off was 100 but this number isn't the important part) you cannot play on this server, it is purely for transitioning new people to the station. They are not locked out of our normal servers, but only new players can join this one. Players with more than the cut off number of hours can APPLY to join the newbie server, with the expectations being they do not abuse their knowledge over new players, play too ruthlessly, and make some effort to help them learn the game mechanics and how to participate in the community. Anyone freely murderboning or powergame validhunting new players with this role, for example, would have their whitelist removed.
This could be a really strong way to give new players a less intimidating starting point to join the community. I don't think we have the influx of new players to make this necessary just yet, but as we expand and touch more mainstream areas like twitch, or get our next youtuber wave, it could help us handle things better than with the last wave.
Also feel free to rate, discuss and debate the results of the conversation.
Here's the debate if you missed it (THANKS FOR RECORDING BOOKTOWER)
[youtube]EZ4qbTSz528[/youtube]