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Attention Mentors-Ambassadors FPC and Planet Parters!MISSION: To work together as a community and developers in welcoming and teaching new participants so that they continue to develop there avatars and become long time participants, and at the very least do not quit shortly after joining.
BACKGROUND: First for those that don't know me. I am RexDameon Andreosn participant of Entropia Universe since it was Project Entropia starting from Dec 19th 2001 but most call me "Rex". I found then Project Entropia in October of 2001 but had to wait until I could afford a new computer leaving me 2 months of nothing to do but read about how this virtual universe works. This gave me a HUGE advantage when starting along with great help from older players like Leafren, Roulette, and Skyrider. I believe these factors are why I have stuck with and enjoyed my time in Entropia for over 5.5 years now. It also promoted me into passing on that knowledge onto other new ones. I believe the more new people we can get to keep playing the bigger and better Entropia Universe will become and more enjoyable for all. I've always thought that eventually if the player base was big enough more advertising would be put in to fund even more rewards for us.
When Treasure Island and later Club NEVERDIE was announced we have had a massive rush of new players. Both times I believe we the community and developers where not ready for it. I seen many come and many go. I would like for the community and the developers to work together in preparation for the next big rush when CryEngine and the new planet parters come in. I want to provide new ones with the correct perspective and knowledge of how Entropia works so that they will understand and become well developed avatars and enjoy the experience as much as I and many long time players have.
HOW: First the whole purpose of this post is for ideas from everyone and I invite everyone to weigh in with there ideas and and let me know if and how you want to help.
What I will be doing:
I will be continuing to develop my site http://rexdameon.atspace.com to help guide new people to the many available resources. I also have my society that I will be developing called "The Citadel" (which is subject to change in name) Which I will come up with a sort of goal orientated rank system to help guide new ones. I will be looking to recruit Mentors to help answer questions and "Group Mentor" new players. This worked very well 4 years ago with my society I created back then "nothing AND nowhere (nAn)" So any mentors out there interested please send me a PM.
I also have another secret project that I need to talk to the developers directly about.
What I would like others to do:
First:I would like to see the developers work with the community and giving there input as to what they would like us to do and how to guide new players. Knowing simple things like are creatures designed so that new participants should start hunting with armor or without. I know the concept previously was that players should have to learn some of these things and there should be mystery but I think that has only lead to many confused players leaving quickly. There is still room elsewhere for mystery and learning opportunities.
Second: I would like to see who is going to volunteer seriously to help mentor new ones. Can we come up with a community standard as what to teach new ones. I was thinking we should come up with an outline for Mentors to go by. Possibly use something like my site and Alice's AMAZING guide. To point all newbies to. Otherwise if everyone can give there input and suggestions how to make this next "newb rush" the most successful. Mostly I want an army of Mentors ready.