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Very nice suggestion, things explained carefully and well. I will put some of my thoughts about it. Happy reading~.
I like the in airplane character creation, but guess that will be limited into only for character creation or first character creation. I like the live character selection where we select our characters, with the camera highlighting the character we selects as seen with some roleplay servers i have been into. But it would be a problem here since we have unlimited (correct me if i am wrong) characters slot using premium. however, that's really good for new characters since it follows up with what happens next, where you arrives at the Airport and finally get the first time driving.
As for the following up "try the fast car" part intro where you use a provided high tuned car, i don't think offline mode would be good for that. Currently nfssa don't feature traffic or anything, imagine how dead the city will be. That's not a good first impression for newcomers. If possible, we can have it uniquely scripted. Have it race track like mapped, Scripted traffic and scripted moments to make them climatic. We can ignore this if it's going too much scripting wise and go with the other solution, online. On the other note, i also don't really like to have them online. Clearly don't wanna see very identical starter cars goes into Doherty garage every 5 minutes interval or having "newbie cars meet". Solution for that is probably make them timed, while there's no severe consequence on failing it. Instead having the timer runs out will just send them to instantly finish their task but give them some unpleasing dialogue to mock them such as "You're too slow!" or else.
Also, instead of going to the garage, we can have it go to the car lot instead. Too much NFSU2 copy yes? well that's the idea. They are going to get a new ride anyway right? additionally, the objective may varies depends on player's choice of stating cities. E.G. I pick Grove Street as my starting place, then I started using my borrowed car on Los Santos Airport's parking lot and my objective is to go to Los Santos's Car Lot.
I would vote Sultan for the starter intro car on the airport and i have nice reasons why. It's argueably the most nice looking tuner car in SA and it's one most wanted car to have on the server. Also it's AWD, meaning with all the power it had shoved toward the newbies on their first time driving on nfssa, they would still fairly control it with ease. It's also placed on the middle tier in term of performance in game, so if they thought that it's the peak of what we can have on the server, WRONG! progress up and see by yourselves. This car also features decent amount of customizations since it got a tuning update recently, making an iconic one shouldn't be an issue with all those options it have.
As for what happened next, i am not sure. I don't really find a good solution of making newbies get to the game further. I also dislikes the car rental for some reason. The thing is that the joy comes from driving your own car and winning on it, at least that's how it is for me. Giving them rentable fast cars will make them neglect their own car. Maxing the car without even driving it also makes no sense to me. Rented cars can be an idea for something else for preventing game overs where you lost all your cars because just got busted on your last pursuit and got your last ride impounded, but that's another thing and am not gonna say anything more about it for now.
Yeah, maxing the first Manana is indeed pain in the ass to do. I have to let faster cars joins my race in order to have races last time i am raising an alt account, as finding other newbies that just started as you is rather hard to do. Perhaps we can have Time trials cooldown reduced for newbies, something like 15 minutes per time trial considering they can't fairly race against others until their car reach certain point. Also they must be encouraged to do time trials regularly since it will be their main income for the beginning of their journey of grinding up. Put it into the tutorial, shove it into their face that it's the must do activity.
That's all for now, please make it happen. We can't neglect newbies anymore, we are losing players from time to time. Now with the exploit thingy partially solved hopefully the devs have more time working on this instead of dealing them exploits. Good day, good bye.
I like the in airplane character creation, but guess that will be limited into only for character creation or first character creation. I like the live character selection where we select our characters, with the camera highlighting the character we selects as seen with some roleplay servers i have been into. But it would be a problem here since we have unlimited (correct me if i am wrong) characters slot using premium. however, that's really good for new characters since it follows up with what happens next, where you arrives at the Airport and finally get the first time driving.
As for the following up "try the fast car" part intro where you use a provided high tuned car, i don't think offline mode would be good for that. Currently nfssa don't feature traffic or anything, imagine how dead the city will be. That's not a good first impression for newcomers. If possible, we can have it uniquely scripted. Have it race track like mapped, Scripted traffic and scripted moments to make them climatic. We can ignore this if it's going too much scripting wise and go with the other solution, online. On the other note, i also don't really like to have them online. Clearly don't wanna see very identical starter cars goes into Doherty garage every 5 minutes interval or having "newbie cars meet". Solution for that is probably make them timed, while there's no severe consequence on failing it. Instead having the timer runs out will just send them to instantly finish their task but give them some unpleasing dialogue to mock them such as "You're too slow!" or else.
Also, instead of going to the garage, we can have it go to the car lot instead. Too much NFSU2 copy yes? well that's the idea. They are going to get a new ride anyway right? additionally, the objective may varies depends on player's choice of stating cities. E.G. I pick Grove Street as my starting place, then I started using my borrowed car on Los Santos Airport's parking lot and my objective is to go to Los Santos's Car Lot.
I would vote Sultan for the starter intro car on the airport and i have nice reasons why. It's argueably the most nice looking tuner car in SA and it's one most wanted car to have on the server. Also it's AWD, meaning with all the power it had shoved toward the newbies on their first time driving on nfssa, they would still fairly control it with ease. It's also placed on the middle tier in term of performance in game, so if they thought that it's the peak of what we can have on the server, WRONG! progress up and see by yourselves. This car also features decent amount of customizations since it got a tuning update recently, making an iconic one shouldn't be an issue with all those options it have.
As for what happened next, i am not sure. I don't really find a good solution of making newbies get to the game further. I also dislikes the car rental for some reason. The thing is that the joy comes from driving your own car and winning on it, at least that's how it is for me. Giving them rentable fast cars will make them neglect their own car. Maxing the car without even driving it also makes no sense to me. Rented cars can be an idea for something else for preventing game overs where you lost all your cars because just got busted on your last pursuit and got your last ride impounded, but that's another thing and am not gonna say anything more about it for now.
Yeah, maxing the first Manana is indeed pain in the ass to do. I have to let faster cars joins my race in order to have races last time i am raising an alt account, as finding other newbies that just started as you is rather hard to do. Perhaps we can have Time trials cooldown reduced for newbies, something like 15 minutes per time trial considering they can't fairly race against others until their car reach certain point. Also they must be encouraged to do time trials regularly since it will be their main income for the beginning of their journey of grinding up. Put it into the tutorial, shove it into their face that it's the must do activity.
That's all for now, please make it happen. We can't neglect newbies anymore, we are losing players from time to time. Now with the exploit thingy partially solved hopefully the devs have more time working on this instead of dealing them exploits. Good day, good bye.
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