Salem is a great game and one of the things that would make it better in my opinion are more players. More people who buy from the cash shop, more people for our towns, more people to raid and more people to kill.
I worry that for a new starting player the freeze mechanic and figuring out how to fight it is a huge turn off before the game has even started. The mechanic is not self explaining and if people don't know the basics of Salem, which skills to get etc., then finding out how to fix freeze is a problem. I know, if that is enough to turn someone away from Salem, then maybe they haven't been the right player anyway. Non the less, even if someone only plays for a few weeks, they leave behind something they built and we all probably like seeing the random stuff in the wild.
I suggest we add getting up to the weaving skill and making the first Jute item into the tutorial to solve this. I would let people collect a bunch of reeds, make them combine them, learn up to weaving and make 1 jute item (either hat, chest or pants). That way newbs learn that they can weave reeds into fibre, they learn how to make clothes, but the tutorial doesn't fix everything for them and they still have to figure out that they need more clothes than that.
In my opinion the above fix would be a very long addition to the tutorial, at least it feels that way to me. So please come up with your suggestions, I would be happy to hear them.