Following Evolution RTS' massive success with getting on Steam, and with a donation from Connetable enabling this, Zero-K is also now on Greenlight. We need your upvotes! Go to this page, login, and click yes!
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And don't forget to say how awesome ZK is in the comments!
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Oh boy this receives all of my approvals @ edit Oh, and     Anarchid, the link leads to image instead of steam page (in your post)
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Can we somehow excourage them to go newbie server or theyre just gonna get abused or frustrated
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Next game with alot of newbies to kill? i say YES :D
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I will use this thread to post all the little things/problems I can think of. Most are probably based off things I noticed from trying to help out Evo newbies yesterday: 1) Players want to get into the game. They want to press a button and start playing. Might want to somehow highlight the Singleplayer and Multiplayer tabs in ZKL. 2) Greenlight will flood Zero-K with people completely unable to do anything without guidance. Someone HAS TO make sure that ZK will be released on a day where as many willing veterans as possible are available to help everyone. I suggest a Friday or holidays. 3) There's so many more things that will definitely go wrong, ohmigod I don't even want to think of them.
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Reactivating the much hated juggler just might be a winning move.
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Can we pack zero-K with a modified springSP? It's so much easier to understand than a lobby to newbies, and it support missions, we can put a tutorial with it. springSP source code: springfiles.com/spring/spring-base/springsp-v09-source-code
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Atleast make it possible to be disabled...duh.
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Someone HAS TO make sure that ZK will be released on a day where as many willing veterans as possible are available to help everyone. |
I'd say more admins need to be recruited. I think if someone has a question he will most probably listen to a "police officer guy".
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Evo had 0 admins to start with :) I'd say ZK admin team is pretty large. I mean, people like drone would complain that we're practically a police state where every third user is police.
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The lobby could use some improvements, guidelines, popups which tell what's what and maybe highlight on 1v1/newbies room/small teams/coop vs ai for new players
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I'd say ZK admin team is pretty large. |
It is fairly large but it can sometimes be hard to get hold of another admin to validate an action. This sometimes leads to cases taking a long time to be resolved or being missed. I think that we have enough admins to deal with a sudden flood of a few hundred players like evo got, and if we don't it would be possible to recruit more.
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Reactivating the much hated juggler just might be a winning move. |
Redesigning it to be much less hated would be even better.
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it can sometimes be hard to get hold of another admin to validate an action. |
The problems with evo people that evo suffered were not due to moral singularities, but with simple stuff that shouldn't require validation.
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The lobby could use some improvements, guidelines, popups which tell what's what and maybe highlight on 1v1/newbies room/small teams/coop vs ai for new players |
@brofessional, please explain more detailed. feel free to implement it, or create guidelines how to implement it (text or visual sketchup,...)
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Unfortunately i don't have skills required to do such thing. But it would be simple, when the lobby is launched for the first time a series of popups appears which are explaining what every button, combo box, tabs etc. do. The first popup would be a welcome message and something like "please spend 2 minutes on completing this short lobby tutorial" and then you skip the message by left-clicking it and a next one appears, explaining that Home tab is basically the site, singleplayer lets you play single player missions just by selecting a mission and pressing the button, multiplayer tab lets you join multiplayer lobbies, blah blah please consider joining newbies/coop vs ai as a newbie and so on.
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The problems with evo people that evo suffered were not due to moral singularities, but with simple stuff that shouldn't require validation. |
I was thinking of the trolls invading from the far north of Steamland. For fixing stuff that needs admin privileges we will have enough admins.
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A 2-minute tutorial for a lobby is a terrible way to inform the user. If the lobby is unclear, the UI needs to improve until it's clear. At most a quick easy-to-dismiss infobox when you click each tab the first time would be good. But still, there's a lot of UI improvements the lobby could get - personally I can't stand the way that messages from the ZK bots work, and the battle-room is navigationally just another chat. And obviously the first launch single-player-experience needs tlc - the whole "create an account, now here's mission 1" experience. The problem is a simple lack of man-hours available to work on it. I could take a crack at lobby improvements, but I'm prettymuch swamped with RL crap right now.
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