I've been thinking, I know there's a Greeter role on Puzzle Pirates, which seems to work well for getting new users accustomed to the game and thought, it may work well for Spiral Knights new users too.
Yeah, there is the training before you get to Haven, but even with that, there are still users unsure of how to fully play the game, it may be worth putting in a Greeter system and a few dungeons for such, only accessable by on-duty Greeters with a group of new users, the new users would get experience and a few crowns, where the Greeter would not, such to prevent abuse. Also a possibly limitation to stop people trying to claim from the training dungeons, so new users could only enter them once or twice with a Greeter before being unable to do so again.
It says on the Wiki that Game Masters have *Game Master* and a purple ring below their feet, so in the eyes of new players (Greeters and GMs too), there would be a green or so ring below them while on-duty. While on-duty they would be expected to help out new players with questions or problems they may have (up until it goes out of their juristiction and such would be a support ticket to a GM).
It could possibly be done so that users can apply for the role, and the GMs review the request, instead of, as in Puzzle Pirates, the user just types /duty and agrees, or equally could still be done the same way with a possible few question quiz to test the user's knowledge of Spiral Knights and the Clockworks.
Anyway, feel free to comment ideas and opinions to this~
- Crash
I like the potential of this idea. There is a small problem with Newbies getting bullied
and a Greeter system would further discourage that sort of poor behaviour.
From my personal experience the learning curve at the start is still to great.
I have never been more confused when begining a game when compared to any other MMORPG.