I just got finished playing my first game and it was a blast. However, as a new player I kept not really knowing how things worked exactly or what was expected of me and what I was trying to do, so I put together some of my thoughts on those things along with some quick step by step guides and examples for those like me playing their first games from my perspective of what would have been helpful to me as a newer player. Hope someone finds it useful.
Very good post! I think the part about what kind of things you're supposed to talk about early game is great for new players. The whole "being too open about who you're close to" thing is also something that's plagued me, so I like to see it included.
In post 3, ambic wrote:You poor first player. You got swapped into a tribe with Jerboa, an utter loon of a player xD (but admittedly only playing his second game)
You mean lucky first player
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In post 3, ambic wrote:You poor first player. You got swapped into a tribe with Jerboa, an utter loon of a player xD (but admittedly only playing his second game)
I shall have to read this some time. Despite playing multiple games, I still don't know what to talk about at the start of any game.
What I've briefly read so far just confirms the actual reason is I don't know what to talk about with people irl either
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Use a conversation generator for ideas if you want to initiate something. Irl, im not good at starting things, so i try to write down things that interest me from the news, or stuff. Eg ‘hey did you see that story in the news about the Florida man?’ I find that really helps. You saw both sides of me fighting with that when I was Lorenz.
In post 8, ambic wrote:Use a conversation generator for ideas if you want to initiate something. Irl, im not good at starting things, so i try to write down things that interest me from the news, or stuff. Eg ‘hey did you see that story in the news about the Florida man?’ I find that really helps. You saw both sides of me fighting with that when I was Lorenz.
Sometimes I use a random word generator and force myself to use all of the words it puts out in order; helps when I need to make a longer message
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"I honestly had no idea how to converse with (Flow). (Flow) brought up architecture to start with and I was like "oh do you like architecture" and then he was like "uhm no I know nothing about it." And then he threw something out a window??"
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