RonPaulFTW wrote:I found salem through the paradox website. I check there every couple months or so for new games.
Turnover of n00bs is a common issue with all mmo type games. The best online games have a good onboarding process. I will repeat what I've said elsewhere: beginner protection for 1-2 weeks or some skill/humor level, easy inter player trading system, maybe a better tutorial system / more tools in the client.
These things have been suggested many many times.
Beginner protection won't work because it is too easy to make a new character and use a few of them to surround and block a very old and high level character into a death trap. Newbies who want 'protection' can just stay on the Boston claim for a few days.
Everyone wants a safer inter player trading system, but the devs don't. I think because they believe it removes some of the 'sandbox' aspect they want.
More tutorial and changes to the default client are planned but very low priority, especially since Ender's client is very good and everyone uses it.