Salem

Greetings people of Salem! I am please to announce Salem's first, town sponsored assistance program. Backed by the town of Taalagan, I will be offering assistance to those who make the treacherous journey to the New World for the first time through various programs that focus on introducing new pilgrims to the world of Salem. The only requirement to join this program is that you are a new player and are willing to complete several different challenges. Upon completing a challenge, you will be reward with some sort of item that is related to the challenge you complete. For a list of challenges please see below. The first step to joining is to simply apply!


Mentors - If you have questions feel free to ask these people in game
Iracus Varanu (HS: 5aExcel) - English
Qiresea (HS: marytrader) - French
Kralith (HS: pm them on forums asking for it) - German and English
Ofisat (HS: Thijsie87) - Dutch and English
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Currently restructuring program using feedback below and other ideas. If you are in need of assistance please feel free to contact any of the above people with questions you may have. If you are in need of specific materials in order to build certain things such as an ore smelter, mine, some seeds, etc. Send me either a PM on the forums or a message in game using my hearthsecret.

Fairly big waste of time for such little reward. Player could achieve the rewards way before you get back to them at that development level.

I think the idea is good, but i agree Dallane in this point, the rewards are placed too low for the experience level.
Especially at task 4 is the reward quite useless, because player who reach this level will still be able to know how to make enough money to buy them, and they will buy them, because it will be way easier or even necessary to work with this rewards.
As a New Player i would skip at the latest after Task 3.

Well, i like the idea of a Mentoring System for Beginner.
You can set me to the List of Mentors, German + English speaking, but Player have to PM me here for getting my HS

i guess you could add me on the list, i would like to limit it to the french speakers (hs marytrader).

Qiresea wrote:i guess you could add me on the list, i would like to limit it to the french speakers (hs marytrader).

Dont invite Mary she scammer!

Kralith wrote:I think the idea is good, but i agree Dallane in this point, the rewards are placed too low for the experience level.
Especially at task 4 is the reward quite useless, because player who reach this level will still be able to know how to make enough money to buy them, and they will buy them, because it will be way easier or even necessary to work with this rewards.
As a New Player i would skip at the latest after Task 3.

Well, i like the idea of a Mentoring System for Beginner.
You can set me to the List of Mentors, German + English speaking, but Player have to PM me here for getting my HS

Agree with the points above, nice idea though!
Im not a very experienced player, but would be willing to teach new players some things as well. Dutch/english speaking. HS Thijsie87

Yeah I was questioning the rewards myself. Any suggestions for rebalancing? Maybe changing up the challenges even. What do new players need the most that they might have a hard time getting at the start?

i guess they just need some clothes not to get frozen at the beginning, and thats it. after that they only need some nails, metal bars and a pickaxe to build a base. they can buy those things in the market if they go around a bit and make some silver by selling savage charms to the npc. insanity is pretty easy to avoid too, if they study a wood chopping or two once in a while. it isnt so difficult to start playing, and maybe we shouldnt ask them to do too many tasks, that can be pretty boring. they may need some meds at some point and some simple advice, other than that i think we should keep it as simple as possible. not too many screenshots either, and no need to level up fields to T3, since they will (should) be moving to a better spot after learning the basics. the purpose of this tutorial should not be to create a "permanent" base, or a "main" character for that matter.

yes i like assistance