New Accounts can't get to NI?

My Story

I spawned in about a week ago. I created the avatar and received the registration email. Once I downloaded the client and logged in, all of a sudden I'm facing a rock wall.

As I turn around and start to get a feel for movement, I am in a village or outpost. I later find out that this was Serpentine Village. I literally had no idea what was going on or what to do next. At that point, the wild boars and monkeys that swarm Serpentine now were not there.

I wandered into the building with the NPCs and see one called Rappa with sweet shades and a cool hat. I tried to interact with it hoping that it will help me learn what is supposed to happen. Turns out it's a person, who was and continues to be more helpful than any bot or NPC could have been.

Having been here a few days now I have a few suggestions:
1) Each planet needs a noob area. Pop them out after reaching certain levels in certain things. Let them try out items and weapons, even if they are taken away after the noob period, at least then they can decide if they like the game or not.

2) New people need more than the silly info boxes that pop up for instruction. Without any instruction, you wouldn't know that box was there necessarily. The game needs to be open-ended but it can be incredibly frustrating to not understand the relationships between things especially when deciding what to buy. You could spend all this time sweating, then trading for PED, and then buy the wrong ammo for the wrong weapon. It needs to be complicated, but it doesn't need to be inaccessible.

3) The turrets are a decent idea for keeping animals out of the towns and stopping spawn-death, but it would be just as easy to count how many times in a minute you had to revive at a spot and if you hit the threshold you would revive someplace safer, like CN or ideally outside the hypothetical noob area .

 

Welcome to the forum Zaph :)

Good points there. First two (ok, mostly the first one) we'll need to wait and see how they'll work, since NI is still in Beta and i'm pretty sure Serpentine village was not meant to be a starting area. Maybe that will be Crystal resort beach Lodges since it has most of the instruction boards, the welcome signs and is in tune with the 'just came of the boat' Island approach. But point number three... I really really like :D

 

The Spawn Points for Noobs is meant to be near Crystal Resort... Hopefully this will be fixed in the first patch of the New Year

 

The same thing just happened to me. After playing around to see if I was missing something, I decided to check here. I guess based on the replies I've seen I'll just wait until after the holidays and try again.