first impression

[xAndrewx]

not so good :

also step 3 in the tutorial says NPC - should say character for a new player maybe?

[kia345]

Valikorlia looks familiar. I can't put my finger on it, but something seems... hmm...

[xAndrewx]

LOL oops move to zodiac plz

[ffcmike]

The first/last time I logged onto Zodiac was about a year and a half ago to test and compare CPU usage, I actually logged onto what was a wall (ontop of trees), went through the tutorial GUI stuff until it said "you may proceed", was still stuck on a wall, I tried "unstick me" but got a message saying "You cannot use unstick me in this area", was this a known potential issue that was since fixed/prevented?

Still wasn't as bad as my non-experience with Era or worse than UN.

[xAndrewx]

Originally Posted by ffcmike

Still wasn't as bad as my non-experience with Era or worse than UN.

oo tell me more

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

oo tell me more

I logged onto Era to receive a popup saying "Please read the rules regarding scamming <here>", except when I clicked <here> nothing happened, when I clicked X to try and close the gui nothing happened, my player was completely stuck and the same problem occurred after reconnecting.

UN was actually possible to move my character around, just I walked out of the OSL to find myself PKing with 3 hearts + level 1 sword against about 10 people that seemed to have 13 hearts and level 3 sword.
A fun challenge for myself but something I'd imagine would scare legit noobs away.

So all in all a pretty terrible experience on what are the top 3 Graal servers, I'd have probably reported the 2 main issues if not for being busy with scripting stuff for Classic.

[fowlplay4]

Fixed the class description display, it was just another one of those things the change in font size affected. Also fixed the unstick me issue, it'll work when you're actually stuck now.

I do have plans to have an after-tutorial section to give some kind of direction for the player.

[xAndrewx]

ty

[Googi]

It's true that the tutorial kind of sucks. The staff do a lot of updates and improve (?) a lot of things, but I guess they don't improve the tutorial often because current players don't ask for that kind of thing.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Googi

It's true that the tutorial kind of sucks. The staff do a lot of updates and improve (?) a lot of things, but I guess they don't improve the tutorial often because current players don't ask for that kind of thing.

The tutorial covers...

1. Console (F2)
2. Has player select Class and Birthday
3. Movement + Swimming
4. Inventory and how to equip and use items
5. Quests
6. Item Drops
7. Skills and other menus

It's the after-tutorial and having the player find direction that needs the most work. Right now a lot of is relying on players communicating with others to help them get on their way.

[Twilikari]

I remember when I started Zodiac. I actually got on a guest account to do the tutorial again. The knowledge is there, but it kinda goes by too fast. And yeah, there's NO direction after that. I took the quest to kill the dragon in the volcano, first thing. I got slaughtered, 4 times. I still havn't really left the first island. Just mass Mobs there, is all I've seen.

[xnervNATx]

open your map and check for small red X, all the dungeons are marked.

[jkldogg]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

not so good

try going on era?

noob: hi, can anyone help me?
oldbie: hey man follow me
noob: ok
*dies*
oldbie: haha ownt
noob: :[

This will happen repeatedly.

[JesusFreak250]

Originally Posted by jkldogg

try going on era?

noob: hi, can anyone help me?
oldbie: hey man follow me
noob: ok
*dies*
oldbie: haha ownt
noob: :[

This will happen repeatedly.

Good times!

[Bacterial]

I just started Zodiac today, and, the Tutorial taught me how to do quest, if I woulda just went through not reading, I'd of never even thought of quests. (Still need to find more quests though.)