Help cRPG grow!

[Switchtense]

I think the biggest problem is that nowadays every game you buy is dumbed down to the max. You start the game and tooltips tell you to breath in and out, set one foot in front of another and to chew, chew, chew and swallow.

cRPG is a whole lot more complex though. It requires you to register on the website, different gamemodes, forums, loads of small mechanics, looms etc etc.

In other words: You have to think. That is a rare thing in video games these days. And I am sure that puts quite a lot of people off who try it for the first time.


If somebody decides to give it a go there is the effort of actually understanding it all, to get into everything. And that is quite a lot of work in the beginning. Information overflow.


That all makes it a given that only a small amount of players who try cRPG will actually stay. Before you have set everything up you cannot play really. And the majority wants to launch the game, play a few rounds and they are happy. Not many can be arsed to actually put a lot of "work" into a game before being able to play.

[NJ_Legion_Icedtea]

Simple idea, not sure if anyone has suggested it yet.... but

New players and low levels tend to play and enjoy DTV more than any other mode. The reasons: can be easier to increase levels faster and also what I believe to be the most important one THEY ACTUALLY FEEL USEFULL

Could EU5 be brought back with bots?
Either like in DTV bots vs players or even a few bots on each side, low levels would actually find it easier to get kills and the x1.5XP would mean faster levelling up to lvl 20 or maybe even mid 20's.

[Herezy92]

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Simple idea, not sure if anyone has suggested it yet.... but

New players and low levels tend to play and enjoy DTV more than any other mode. The reasons: can be easier to increase levels faster and also what I believe to be the most important one THEY ACTUALLY FEEL USEFULL

Could EU5 be brought back with bots?
Either like in DTV bots vs players or even a few bots on each side, low levels would actually find it easier to get kills and the x1.5XP would mean faster levelling up to lvl 20 or maybe even mid 20's.

That is an excelent idea !
Add some bots, it will attract new players on EU5, and then, EU5 will live again
New players never join EU5, because it's always empty, if you add bots in both team, it wont be empty !

[zottlmarsch]

Don't worry peasants, when I return later this week i'll just be running around naked with no weapon spamming the new voice commands. Free kills for all of you!!! 

[//saxon]

ok i went through all the comments and got all the new ideas and added them to the POLL, please help yourselves and choose some

you can choose 5 options! (votes can be changed)

i see a good future for this mod, these idea's are great we need a developers attention now.

[F i n]

Eu1 just isn't the place to have a warm welcome.

The max lvl 20 Server should be renamed to "Training server" -  a duel / battleserver with double xp and bots - only joinable by players with lvl 20 or less - OR Skip the fun characters (to actually train).

Best case scenario would be, that new players get x2 xp as soon as they're joining, and a multiplier for every enemy they kill. Your Enemies get stronger, everytime you've won - (x1 = fighting 1 bot, x2 = fighting 2 bots, x3 = fighting 4 bots, x4 = 6 bots, x5 = 8 bots..) - not to mention NO CRUSHTHROUGH or KNOCKDOWN weapons for bots or players.

We need a place where new guys can train in peace - at their own individual way. IF we'd get a few "Veterans" to create Trainer-STF, that are on the server, answering questions etc (and maybe reward them with x2 gold / Tick), this might actually work out pretty well for everyone. 

DTV isn't the place to actually get better - those bots are just... too many. I don't see how a new player would learn anything there - except for spamming.

[Switchtense]

DTV isn't the place to actually get better - those bots are just... too many. I don't see how a new player would learn anything there - except for spamming.

Oi! That's where I have learned to play D:

[F i n]

Oi! That's where I have learned to play D:

U mean that's where you've learnt to spam, then later realized it's not working on eu1 and then started actually working on your build and style?

[//saxon]

U mean that's where you've learnt to spam, then later realized it's not working on eu1 and then started actually working on your build and style?

we all have some bad habits  but that's what makes us unique?

[Kato]

Some good suggestions.

This is my...

[Aprikose]

The level is not the problem...rather the skill. U could enable Autoblock for new players hahahah

[Penitent]

Should be a poll option for "none"

Learning curve should be challenging, it's what makes it rewarding and fun.

They will be stronger people because of it. 

[no_rules_just_play]

Scrapping all levels from 1-19 will totally kill the grind. This is a good idea for the first gen and maybe free respecs until lvl 30, but I actually liked to play as peasant and the grind is just extremely rewarding. It's the reason I stayed.

[//saxon]

i selected the option to be able to change votes but i myself can't change my votes, so im just wandering if anyone else can't, if not something is broken with the POLL.

god dam..

Anyway, i would really like to be able to just use cRPG to train the new players that actually need help with blocking and basic movement and feints. that would be cool for me. Might have to hang around EU_3 abit more and offer some helpful services.

[Turkhammer]

Why not just make just make everything equal with no looms, levels, perqs or any of that?  That way only experience and skill (with twiddling a mouse) will count.