01 Introduction
This thread proposes improvements to the new player experience (NPE).
Summary:
1) Players start on Ashdale and complete a quest. The quest would act as the main tutorial for the game and prequel to A Shadow Over Ashdale . During the quest, players learn basic concepts including controls, skills, quests, and combat.
2) After the Ashdale sequence, players go to Lumbridge to craft a weapon and complete a simple combat lesson. They also learn about interface customisation and the world map. Additional equipment creation and nearby quests would be presented as optional paths.
3) Finally, players travel to Varrock to learn about trade and social features. They learn how to use the Grand Exchange and protect themselves from scamming/exploitation, unlocking the ability to chat and to trade with other players.
Table of Contents
01 Introduction
02 Ashdale
06 Lumbridge
08 Varrock
10 Additional Paths
11 Feedback/discussion
Note on Burthorpe:
The Troll Warzone theme cannot continue to be part of RuneScape’s introduction. Sending players fresh out of the initial tutorial to be weaponised as cannon fodder in a literal warzone as “recruits” profoundly undermines RuneScape’s core message of questioning tradition, drawing one’s own conclusions, and defying the inane mandates of gods, monarchs, military officials, and the powerless swarms of thousands who obediently follow.
By depicting the conflict as an innocent people’s legitimate defence of its borders from incursion by inhuman, illiterate brutes, Burthorpe’s tutorial echoes real-world propaganda in a cynically accurate portrayal of war and state power, if not intentionally.
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F2P Extensions
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New Player Experience
This thread proposes improvements to the new player experience (NPE).
Summary:
1) Players start on Ashdale and complete a quest. The quest would act as the main tutorial for the game and prequel to A Shadow Over Ashdale . During the quest, players learn basic concepts including controls, skills, quests, and combat.
2) After the Ashdale sequence, players go to Lumbridge to craft a weapon and complete a simple combat lesson. They also learn about interface customisation and the world map. Additional equipment creation and nearby quests would be presented as optional paths.
3) Finally, players travel to Varrock to learn about trade and social features. They learn how to use the Grand Exchange and protect themselves from scamming/exploitation, unlocking the ability to chat and to trade with other players.
Table of Contents
01 Introduction
02 Ashdale
06 Lumbridge
08 Varrock
10 Additional Paths
11 Feedback/discussion
Note on Burthorpe:
The Troll Warzone theme cannot continue to be part of RuneScape’s introduction. Sending players fresh out of the initial tutorial to be weaponised as cannon fodder in a literal warzone as “recruits” profoundly undermines RuneScape’s core message of questioning tradition, drawing one’s own conclusions, and defying the inane mandates of gods, monarchs, military officials, and the powerless swarms of thousands who obediently follow.
By depicting the conflict as an innocent people’s legitimate defence of its borders from incursion by inhuman, illiterate brutes, Burthorpe’s tutorial echoes real-world propaganda in a cynically accurate portrayal of war and state power, if not intentionally.
24-Dec-2023 00:10:18 - Last edited on 12-Jan-2024 14:56:08 by Seasons Past