Idea.....

[Sambuka]

Ok guys, jsut a lil something i thought of to try and get more players on Medrate, and also help a lot of new guys get into the swing of things.

Was thinking about makin a forum post advertising a certain time for anyone who wants to try medrate out, and during this certain time id(or any other highish level that wants to help out) get all the new guys in a group and take em leveling to around 35-40, then they can fend for themselves

also a wee starter like 250k each to get them a shop kit.

If u lot thought it was a good idea i was also thinking a gm could make it x2 exp for the certain time all the new guys would be going on the hunt? Would get them all leveld up and get them on the server, u never know, they might prefer it on this server and stay..if not they will have a slightly leveld char on medrate that they may pop on from time to time. All helps a little.



what u lot think?

[Gridlock]

I level to 52 on the first week of medrate with no help... so i dont think x2 exp at start is nessessary...

as for low levels i think plenty of players are helping them level and hunt, you just need to ask nicely

joining a guild could definitely help you get lvled fast and the leaders usually give you money for a starter kit...

[Tallos]

He never said necessary - I've personally done an ass load of leveling spread out over various servers (Mir private servers + WoW official server), there's no way I'd start a new character somewhere that's hard to level unless I was certain I'd enjoy wherever it was that I was starting.

You'll find many people have the same attitude as I do, so having the OPTION of a decent starting point on here gives them much more incentive to play here, which is really what's required, considering there's only a handful of players that're active at the moment (talking 10 ish, there's normally 20~ on, a good portion of whom are afk).

So yeah, I think it sounds like a great idea, I'd be willing to give them some gold for reaching level 40, but I've not really got the time to help level people.

[Boogle]

ok this is the sort of attitude i generally thought would pick up on this server. if the other guys on this server are willing to do this then i will make a stickie on the med forums for a specific time an date for newbies to come an try our server out! whoever wants to help with this idea post what u think an if you are willing to help.

i think say somethin like once every week or maybe 2 weeks a group ov higher level mir players get to gether an take the new comer's for a trip of some caves to give them some help. it will also get them use on what caves to hunt in an if they have any problems ask them to add you to there friends list an pm you if they get stuck.

i would say on a wednesday (Middle of the weekish) at about 4-5pm GMT (enough time for kids to get home from school and do there homework :P).

/Boogle

[Daz]

Nice idea, maybe have an npc which only works on wednesday between 4-5pm gives someone under level 40 x2 exp for 1hour.

Daz

[Tallos]

Would it be possible for everyone grouped with them to get double exp? It would mean an incentive for people to help, even in mid level area's they'd still get fairly good exp while the lowbies are shooting through the levels.

Would it also be possible for us to donate items to some kind of "newby store", so that upon dinging 40 people get some kit (maybe level 35 items + level 40 armour?) as most of these are cheap as hell and they drop all over the place. Personally I get 5-10 level 40 armour's a day from general leveling/bosses, I either leave them there or gem then up with gems I find whilst leveling, if there was somewhere to put them that I knew would go to people that can make use of them, rather than people that are going to waste them, I'd make space in my bag to keep them.

[Daz]

But this would be exploited by people making noobs and grouping to get double exp so I would suggest that been a no no lol :P..

Ermm the nooby storage you could sell your items you get to a NPC for like 1 gold or something, and they cost 1 gold to buy back. Not sure about making an actual STORAGE.

Daz

[Boogle]

yer like daz has said not sure on the storage thing but maybe make an npc in bw sz which only lvl 45's and lower can use and all the higher players can sell there items to this for say maybe 100k? not 1g lol.
then the lower players that can use the Npc can buy them for 10% of the price it was sold to the npc for? then its making them pay for items instead of having everything given to them. it will help them in the future when they relise i have to start paying more money for better items.

/Boogle

[Daz]

Yeah I see where your coming from mate.

Daz

[Tallos]

I highly doubt people will be interested in helping people level over and over again, I don't mind helping for the short-term, but I don't have the patience to do it for long (I've spent the last 5-6 years of mmo playing helping other people, lol). There really needs to be some form of incentive/reward - Be honest with yourself, how many people do you know that will (and I mean for longer than a month or two) do something that selfless over and over again without any personal gain? I'm a sucker and did it for literally years, though it was with friends and friends of friends, I wouldn't grind for random people.

The selling thing wouldn't work; I could make a nubin char, buy everything on it for 10k each, swap it to another char and sell it all back for 100k each. Maybe if it cost 50k and sold for 50k, that would work - People wouldn't leave them on the floor all the time and it's not really much for a nub, 50k.