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There are many new players coming to this server each day, but too many of them are discouraged by confusion and quit, never come back.
I have seen way too many times, a new player, stock car, and he joins the custom race against a A class, after 1 lap he realizes that he has no chance, since other cars fly as fast as UFOs compared to his car.
In this Thread, I will point out the reasons why new players are leaving, and propose my solutions to the problems. This server deserves more players, but because of a few simple problems, they all leave after few minutes, and this server suffers low numbers as a result.
Problems:
1. New players do not realize that car score number is the performance rating of their car.
2. New players do not realize, that quick race game-mode has matchmaking, in which they can race against similarly fast cars, and have a pleasant and fair race, compared to the custom race madness.
3. None of the new players read the F9 tutorials, right after joining the game, they did not start a game, to spend their hours reading a wall of text. (F9 tutorial is well done, and provides good info for players who have some problem later in the game, I am not saying that its bad, but simply none of the new players will read it in the first minute of their time on this server)
Solution: All that needs a change is the "Race" window after pressing the "race" button in the garage.
changes to the "Race" window:
1: Lock out the new players out of the custom race, until they finished 3 quick races (or whatever number you deem appropriate)
2: change the text below the "Quick race" from the current text to "fair racing against cars with similar performance car score" to make it clear, that this is a fair way to race.
3: Grey out the "Custom Race" column
4: Add a counter "0/3 quick races played" above the "Custom Race" column, to make it clear why a new player cant access it.
Seriously, this server is amazing, has many hours of work poured into it, its a shame that new players ragequit after one minute. I welcome suggestions of other players on this topic, as I am sure many of you have more elegant solutions, than to lock custom race.
In the attachment, I uploaded my mock-up of what the race window would roughly look like. (I am no photoshop prodigy, I know its not well done
)
I have seen way too many times, a new player, stock car, and he joins the custom race against a A class, after 1 lap he realizes that he has no chance, since other cars fly as fast as UFOs compared to his car.
In this Thread, I will point out the reasons why new players are leaving, and propose my solutions to the problems. This server deserves more players, but because of a few simple problems, they all leave after few minutes, and this server suffers low numbers as a result.
Problems:
1. New players do not realize that car score number is the performance rating of their car.
2. New players do not realize, that quick race game-mode has matchmaking, in which they can race against similarly fast cars, and have a pleasant and fair race, compared to the custom race madness.
3. None of the new players read the F9 tutorials, right after joining the game, they did not start a game, to spend their hours reading a wall of text. (F9 tutorial is well done, and provides good info for players who have some problem later in the game, I am not saying that its bad, but simply none of the new players will read it in the first minute of their time on this server)
Solution: All that needs a change is the "Race" window after pressing the "race" button in the garage.
changes to the "Race" window:
1: Lock out the new players out of the custom race, until they finished 3 quick races (or whatever number you deem appropriate)
2: change the text below the "Quick race" from the current text to "fair racing against cars with similar performance car score" to make it clear, that this is a fair way to race.
3: Grey out the "Custom Race" column
4: Add a counter "0/3 quick races played" above the "Custom Race" column, to make it clear why a new player cant access it.
Seriously, this server is amazing, has many hours of work poured into it, its a shame that new players ragequit after one minute. I welcome suggestions of other players on this topic, as I am sure many of you have more elegant solutions, than to lock custom race.
In the attachment, I uploaded my mock-up of what the race window would roughly look like. (I am no photoshop prodigy, I know its not well done
)
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