Thread: Making the case for a new starting point in 7.0

Originally Posted by Alleo

How would a new starting point make that easier? They would either need to use hours of mindless grinding if they start a job at level 1 and if they start at a higher level to begin the new expansion they will be overwhelmed with everything too, after all those are probably new players that have to learn the whole game.

So what will that do with the dungeon quality for the new dungeons? How many more players will not know what a stack marker is? At least if they skipped with a jump potion they had to buy it first which can already stop some from doing that.

Also about your character: There is a difference between a character having some kind of life before we take over them (which can still largely be made up by ourself since there is nothing known ingame) and a character that has bascially 90 levels and several expansions of stories which includes saving the whole universe.

You're describing what the intro would do... Or at least need to do, it's not like I'm suggesting a new bog standard low quality intro (like a lot of mmos have, to be honest), it would need to be carefully constructed (to the point you might consider it one of the better 'quests' of the game, but that's where MSQ+ would allow players who already started the game to also get to enjoy it too and put a reward behind it so the effort isn't wasted on a whole section of the audience).

Can you not mentally create a multi-hour introduction (2hr?), in your mind that would teach people stack? If you started someone at like level 30, and then boosted them to 40, 50, etc. They would, except maybe specific weird jobs like Black Mage which might evolve weirdly, be able to pick it up at least to the current quality we already have in DF- I strongly believe.

For the last point, not really- imo. Again many games have done just that, it's proven to be fine... I've played many games that had series components where you did something epic but then the next game would be okay to start at if you didn't play the previous ones.