*Adopt a Newbie* ~ new concept brainstorming and ideas

Hey all :)
I have been playing with an idea since the School of Lootius, which CoL had a while ago.

The concepts name is *Adopt a Newbie*

Idea
Newbies profile 'database' with newbies not yet in societies. Maybe newbies with no friends yet and hardly any experience in game.

Societies can from this list choose to adopt a newbie for a min of 4 weeks period.

The purpose
- is to keep more people in game. Often new players do not return because they do not have anything personal to return to.

It has been proven more than once that the community and social values in game are higher than the game play itself. And if new people doesn't really know how to start, some might be shy and not that good to get friends or ge into societies, it might result in people quitting and never coming back. And the whole trust-a-newbie issue before you invite them as a soc-mate is of course also a barrier.

With this agreement you have no obligations whatsoever because there will be a written contract. Both the soc-leader and the newbie knows it's only for a sertain period of a min 4 weeks. No one should be disappointed when the 4 weeks are over and it's up to the society how to act from here - if they wish to expand the period!

It's a free service
- and I have not yet thought of any kind of donations etc. for the project. I HAVE been thinking if donations should be of free choise if a society decides to keep a newbie in the society after the set time of 4 weeks. Just like a temporary job agency does it in RL - but this is not decided at all yet - and probably it won't happen.

ANYWAY
Tell me if you like this idea? Could be expand, improved etc. Is it any good?

If we pull this off we will make a section on the forum with this service and in the Yellow pages aswell, of course. And make a new banner for the clientloader, because this service definitely is targeted Newcomers ;)

Discuss ....

 

Ty Stave :)
Maybe we could even put together a newbie program for the newbies in this concept? Saying - from the newbie starts in the soc they have some 'appointments' with others - f.x. your tour agency! Like a plan when a new member of a company joins the staff group ;)

 

Thanks Alice :)
Yes, I know it's a huge challenge to get the newbies in here to sign up. But maybe in the end it will be worth it for them? Of course they need to see the purpose with it - but another challenge is for the societies to see the purpose in adopting!

We can advertice on EP of course, and hopefully EF will accept advertising there aswell, since it IS an EU service ...

Other than that there are the advertising system in game - shouting around, mouth-to-mouth through you guys :) and last, but not least, since it's a newbie related service, a banner on the client loader!

I am not seeing this as 'MY' project - but dedicate the whole concept to the EP community!

 

That is a good idea, Shadowsong - I also have some few pixieparts and newbie weapons from SoL (School of Lootius) donated by Spawn back in days (ty Spawn :) ), I will throw into the bunch !

 

Stave, promotion ??? Tell

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Anyway, we have now:

• Profile list of newbies (database of people in a special section called *Adopt a Newbie* - there should be some guidelines for when you can sign up. What if freelancers are looking for societies to join? Maybe the service can be expaned as a player-soc dating programe ;) )
• Newbie start up programe (a 4 week programe - not everyday but some of the days to meet up with different people and services)
• Newbie package (Only for newbies being adopted to a society. How can we be sure, that no one will take advantage of this?)
• A noob-fund
• A noob-guide which they 'get' when they start (how should they get that? If they are members here it's easy. We can send them a pm with it or even a mail if they agree to that)
• Promoting through guides and other people related to newbie-programes like Entropia Tour Agency. Can we come up with other in game related business' which are having some kind of newbie-prograge?

 

Yes Atlan, great idea. An idea I worked with for many years:

Mentor? Join School of Lootius-society today!
Newbie? Join School of Lootius-society today !


Unfortunately it didn't quite work as planned - which is why I believe we should not drag them to one single place - but instead made a placement :)

Why it really didn't work out beats me but my guess is you can reach longer if you have more people to support you than just a few!


(Ps: something went wrong in your siggie?? )

 

To make it work you need some people highly interested in the work with newbies only - also well knowing, that the society might be quite empty from time to time.

We had it, as you see, in CoL - and lately Spawn was the leader of SoL and he did a great job. But in the lenght it gets pretty frustrating and boring and you miss talking with some more skilled players and people you can count on will be online ;)

I still believe in the idea somehow - but from the get go it requires at least 3-5 skilled players who wish to build it up. The question then is, are there ANYONE who is willing enough to leave the society they might have been a part of for years to dedicate their time with newbies?

I don't know. We also talked about dragging the newbies to our soc - but also pretty much gave up that idea - because what if you do not wish to keep people?

With the *Adopt a Newbie* you sign up for only a limited time and therefor it might be more interesting for the societies to work with newbies this way.

The mentoring programe is still in a progress from MA and of course we do not know how it will work in future - but there's also a problem with all the newbies who had fun hunting or mining a little, but yet doesn't know enough about game and the socials - and then they are suddenly too skilled to become a disciple!

 

Shadowsong, you mean, that it should NOT be the socs which adopts the newbies?? (just to get it all clear, since my English is not that well :) )

It all depends on the new mentoring programe - yes! And I think it's a good idea we prepare some newbie-packages! Awesome if we can point the newbies to a place saying *hey, everything you need in one place .. OH and you just got yourself a trainee spot too at xx-avatar in xx-soc :D*

And all kind of promoting is AWESOME :) Ty. Im usually standing shouting around in Twins myself :D