New Bomboria

[cutelilmurderer]

Let me tell you about my experience with the trial island and why it made me play.

I started out on a beach and some robot people come up to me and tell me that they will help me out. I'm like "Hahaha cute lil' NPC's helping me up." Then they tell you how to mine, craft, what items are and what stuff does. They give you a basic interaction with the game directly instead of other players and give you a general idea of what is valuable and what the span is of what could possibly happen here.

I mean really, Graal Kingdoms covers it all. You could mine, craft, build up any skill tree, there are no class restrictions, no item bars (requirements for carrying a weapon), you could go fishing, you could make bread, make perfumes, grow flora AND fauna, you could raise an army of monsters, you could shoot fireballs and lightning, you could follow a god, you could learn to disarm traps, you could build battleships and blimps, you could do arena battles, you could use alchemy, you could change clothes and faces, you could wear masks and capes, you could sell diamonds, you could build houses and castle type fortifications, you could build weapons, race carts, build mining carts and do expeditions of mining, fight giant monsters and underground beasts, ride horses, play minigames, gather wood, and there are of course five kingdoms that have their own islands, leaders and rules.

When a beginner starts a game like that then WHAM, you are like, "Where the hell do I sign up!?" When another player is around you will ask him where the mines are and how to get something done.

That segregates the old and new players very far apart, it is so sad. You will find yourself avoiding players with names that are not in gold letters, walking around groups of people asking for pickaxes or wands, avoiding confrontations in the tradehouse with people asking where to get money.

It is truly out of hand. I would not want to play if a cool looking player like me just walked by instead of hanging out for a minute. I truly believe myself to be one of the most selfless players on this server but I DO confess that I often refuse the help of players without gold accounts. It really is a shame to have that island taken away.

What made YOU pay for gold and stay with the kingdoms server? Newbie island won me.

[ReBorn_Spirit]

A Large popup should be thrown into any trial members window before they leave that start house explaining to them their limitations as a trail member, and where to become a gold member as a button they can click on. Also a close button for this window would be needed.

A second feature/addon should be some basic starting armour for them to use, like worn leather armour, to atleast keep them safe enough to attack a shell bomy with some chance of winning. As it is right now they have to gang beat (more then 2 people) a shell bomy to actually kill it.

I think it would be nice for them to atleast have some partial save feature, so they do not have to ask for a weapon 300 times. Strict limitations of level 3 and no higher (or whatever you think is best) and not being able to leave Bomboria, would make more sense to me. Though the level resitrction isn't required, but for old players that have alot of items on a second account could atleast regain their items then and not really have to worry about it much more. For a level restriction you could put in that unless you have gold time you just cannot gain anymore experience after level 5, that is, until you upgrade your account again.

[Gothika]

Originally Posted by ReBorn_Spirit

A Large popup should be thrown into any trial members window before they leave that start house explaining to them their limitations as a trail member, and where to become a gold member as a button they can click on. Also a close button for this window would be needed.

Hasn't someone already suggested that?.. Oh, that's right.. I did.