[COMMUNITY] We're Remaking the tutorial so it’s fun and interesting thread

[Venalan]

So another quest it done..



These are the props for the third quest.

Quite a simple quest. He tells you about combat and weapons, gives you a selection of weapons to pick from and gives you one basic lesson. You also have the option of fighting a rat and giving him the hide(s) you get. He explains who the first trainers are for weapons and armor so you know who to go an see. And a few other little bits and pieces.. And after all that sends you off to do magic...

Ta Da!

[Illysia]

Poor cranky Ibhaar.

[cdmoreland]

Poor cranky Ibhaar.

I never met a drill instructor that wasn't cranky when doing his job.

[Roled]

Venalan and Team Tutorial! 

This looks great, and great progress! kudos!

Can Ibhaar be a female or a non-gendered skin? I just love the subliminal, or perhaps overt, questioning of paradigm that the drill instructors are hunky.. tho I suppose a Northrir could be hunky with enough steroids... 
RR

Good work!

[Taya]

And... It's been a little while, but here's another update.



Orphia can now be asked about the different ways and will help you to decide which you'd like to learn about before giving you your first lesson and, of course, your first glyph to play with. She tells you where you should go to learn more and also points you toward how to start out in herbalism/alchemy.

More to come (hopefully soon!)...

[LigH]

Attracts attention and interest. Well done.

[Illysia]

Nice.

[helios21]

Now I am really interested in helping new players out, just to explore the tutorial area again after all those improvements!

Thank you,

[Venalan]

Update.

Part 1 - Eonwind added a path for an NPC guard so there will be an NPC walking about the whole map. He also added movement to the rats and another prop npc. All good stuff.



Part 2 - Taya has written 5 books for the notice board which I hope to get loaded soon and added into the new tutorial.

Part 3 - The last three quests are basically written. The NPC for the last quest will be redesigned and will go in the area below.



Part 4 - We have loaded the first 4 quests to the test server and have begun testing them and make small improvements to them all.

Part 5 - We have started changing the help file to match the text in the tutorial and also make it (we hope) better.

So we really don't have too much more to do. I hope in the next few weeks if we can get enough testing done and finish off the last few things we will get close to having this finished.

[LigH]

This looks so cozy, who would want to leave the tutorial area now?

[Venalan]

Update time.

So we have been working on rewriting the 'start here' section of the help file. And given the fact that you need a client update to fix mistakes in it I would like you lot to read it over and comment on it now.

New Help File

I suggest using it in game so you can get a real feel for it. To do that you need to click the 'download button' once you have it you need to re-name it 'Help.xml' and replace the current help file with this new one. You can find it in the installation directory. 

"program files/planeshift/data" in windows.

I'm after comments on content, formatting, language, spelling, grammar... everything. Lets hear it.

[Venalan]

So, we are in the final stages of getting this all ready so any last comments or suggestions let us know.

[verden]

Looks like a good bit of work, best wishes.

[Venalan]

And it's done  . There may well be a few little bugs which we haven't noticed but I'm sure they will be easily fixed once reported.

So this is what the team has done.

7 rewritten quests - DONE
set dressing for the 5 main npcs - DONE
a npc guard walking about - DONE
a pet for Ibhaar - DONE
notice board and new books with settings info - DONE
new and improved help file - DONE
changes to chat tab options to make selecting them easy for new people - DONE
doors for coming and going from tutorial at will - DONE

It will be a little while until it is released as we have some internal testing going on for other stuff, but it surly cant be long now......

[gonger]

Congratulations and thanks to everybody who was involved.
I can't wait to try it myself.

Gonger