Day 1 - Wednesday
Newby found in the steam list a game called “Empyrion” and buys it with the spare money he got from the NMS-Refund.
He installed the game and looks in the list for the most crowded server - HWS Europe.
A few clicks later, his rescue-pod is falling on Earth. He didnt looked much around, this game is new and all is soooo exciting. After he claims his materials from his Pod he runs around, looking for the tutorial missions and armed with his pistol.
“Aaaahrg - Spider” Death…
A few minutes later he got his backpack back, the spider is still hunting him, but hey, thats survival.
He runs around and find some meteor and he starts mining, as he see´s another newby player
“Aaaahrg - Player” Death…
Damn, all in his backpack left is the T1-Drill and a little bit of the other stuff, but hey thats survival…
He runs around and find some meteor and he starts mining, as he see´s another player
“Aaaahrg - Player” Death…
No chance to get back to his Backpack, they are camping there at the meteor with three people and a big bad CV.
“Newby: help”
“Chat:
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 2
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 3
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 4
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 5”
“Newby: HELP I AM STUCK ON A PVP-PLANET AND THEY KEEP KILLING ME!!!”
“Chat:
Old-Two: type CB:Reset
Old-Three: you need to type cb:reset to choose another planet
Old-Four: борщ & водка”
After the third attempt he gets it managed to reset his player and start all over on a PVE-Planet. A few clicks later, his rescue-pod is falling on Phobos. He didnt looked much around, this game is new and all is soooo exciting.
“Aaaahrg - Spider” Death…
Day 2 - Thursday
Newby got some nice materials together, he build a small base near the water and he is looking forward to get his very first Small Vessel. Everything is nice, everybody here looks helpfull, somebody gave him a T2-Drill but he couldnt use it anymore because he doesnt get the materials to craft the fuel. But thats okay, in a few minutes he gets his Starter T1-Small Vessel…
Day 3 - Friday
EVERYTHING IS GONE!!! All the stuff he was mining, his ship, his base, EVERYTHING!
How could that happen? Lets ask an Admin…
“Newby: Admin online?”
“Chat:
Old-Two Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 2
Old-Two Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 3
Old-Two Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 4
Old-Two Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 5”
“Newby: AAAAADDDMIIIINNN!!!”
“Server: Yes Newby?”
“Newby: I´ve lost everything, it is all gone i thought this is PVE-World not PVP?”
"Server: There was a wipe today.
“Newby: What? I didnt know that”
“Server: CB:Wipe”
“A lot
of
Text”
“Newby: Ah okay i didnt know that, can i have my stuff back?”
“Server: Okay i am in good mood - here is your ship and base back”
Day 5 - Sunday:
Newby got a lot of stuff together, he is proud of his SV and got a nice assault rifle to kill the evil spiders, as he reads in the Chat:
“Old-Three: Anybody needs a lift before the wipe tomorrow?”
PANIC! ANOTHER WIPE!!! And newby still doesnt have found Zascosium and Erestrum for his CV.
“Newby: Where can i find Zas and Ere for my ship i need to get away from the wipe!!!”
“Chat:
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 6
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 7
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 8
Old-One Thanks for upgrading your autominer to lvl 9”
“Newby: HELP HELLO I NEED ERE AND ZAS FOR MY SHIP WHERE DO I FIND IT???”
“Old-Two: Try Planet XY”
“Old-Three: Look at the market”
“Old-Four: борщ & водка”
No chance to get to that planet, no money to buy something, and no idea how the market works… Lets take the offer and fly with the ship to the PVE-Planet.
All his stuff is packed and he figured out how to dock his SV on this huge space ship with all these nice people and some other Newbys together, the travel starts and he gets his ride to Destiny (Full and overcrowded at this moment, but hey thats okay, we only lift some Newbys over here so they can settle somewhere else)
Destiny… Clear Water, nice Air, what a wonderfull place to live.
“Aaaahrg - Spider” Death…
Day 6 - Monday
He escaped the evil wipe, build his base on Destiny, totally ignoring the message that 9 People should leave the planet. He found a near base that offers free food (Yes there is one on Destiny) and he figured out how the market works. In his One-Person-Faction he got the “Trader” in his name and he enjoys the
Supply-Package because he can build a huge CV to travel the Universe (and maybe lag someone to death) - lets go to Earth and kill some Newbys…
What do you think, where does it go wrong? Where do we take the Newby at the hand instead of letting him play as the game is intended?
In this few days the newby didnt even take one look at the website and he still doesnt know something about the Story.
Sorry for the long post, here is a space potato: