Zipzo
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- Mar 29, 2015
There is one single reason I've seen repeated more often than any other when asking friends or inquiring even to strangers as to why they don't want to come to Kronos from wherever they're currently playing, whether it be another vanilla server or any other expansion.
"I don't want to start over"
I think most of you can corroborate with this experience. The single most daunting obstacle that lay before any bright and bug-eyed player moving in to another 1x server. It can really burn someone out and there are many who may have already done switch before!
I've had the pleasure of being able to draw a handful of people in to Kronos simply by streaming and introducing them to (imo) the best vanilla experience out on the market, but I still feel as though I could be doing more, and that has let me to the jump-start of a project I intend to helm and manage for the single purpose of addressing what I believe to be the single most important obstacle worth addressing for new players: the grind. The reason I'm sharing this idea with you before putting it out on the reddit or spreading it elsewhere is because I also need your help! I will need a handful of folks from both factions willing to take part in this project in order for it to be successful (for players of both factions of course).
Introducing the ZIP-2-60 Questing Assistance Project!
What this project aims to do: Assist in the completion of difficult or otherwise un-doable quests for new players who have difficulty forming parties or getting over an XP gap due to a log of difficult quests, with the higher objective of motivating newer players to roll knowing they can always rely on assistance from their friendly neighborhood Kronos player to help get them up to speed.
How we plan to do it: I will be managing a queue system where I take requests from new players. The player-in-need will describe the quest that they would like to complete (or even group of quests!) and then I will contact someone on my roster of awesome epic raid-geared players to go and assist said player in clearing out those pesky quests! When the "helper" player is ready to assist with the quest assignment I've assigned them, they will send a message to the leveling player when they are online, in an effort to group up and help complete the task requested. When the task is finished, I will be notified by the helper, and it will be cleared from the queue. I can only take as many requests as I have people to send out! That includes myself, by the way! Of course this system can be abused by lazy people who want others to do everything for them, so...
At the moment the plan is to take requests for Elite grade quests only.
This includes dungeon runs.
By simply carrying you through quests denoted as being clearable by the player themself outside of a group, we risk infringing on the intended leveling experience of a Vanilla realm by "over-helping". To some, they don't care what-so-ever as long as they get their quests done as quickly as possible, but this is a point I intend to hold strong on because Kronos's ability to immerse people in the vanilla experience is significant, in my opinion, so for now I only plan to deal in elite quests or dungeon runs around the level of 40 and below (above 40 can be arranged depending on the dungeon and the class of the player helping).
This circumvents the issue of needing to find a group and wasting a lot of valuable XP time, both in terms of the the dungeon and their elite quests, which can sometimes be very difficult to find other people lined up on the same quests in your zone when you're playing. It can really take a stresser off of a new leveler knowing they can fall back on the Zip-to-60 team to help them in a bind where they aren't getting bites in world chat.
I'm going to use this thread to start a list or roster so to speak of people on both factions who would be willing to participate in such a project. Those interested should be (ideally) level 60 and/or pretty close to 60 otherwise you risk being unhelpful on certain higher level quests, have Skype or some easy method of contact similar (at worst I can make a horde alt), and have a thing for helping others and wanting Kronos to get better
.
Alliance Helpers
Zipzo
Sidney
Chalia
Montecristo
Horde Helpers
Volrat
Tekai
Diazepam
Druzz
Now This project cannot succeed without your guys' help, so if nobody volunteers to be a part of it then unfortunately it's back to the drawing board for me on ways that I can help Kronos grow. Here's to hoping others can see the value in this idea! Look forward to your responses/criticisms/ideas on how to maybe even make the idea better! See you guys around.
"I don't want to start over"
I think most of you can corroborate with this experience. The single most daunting obstacle that lay before any bright and bug-eyed player moving in to another 1x server. It can really burn someone out and there are many who may have already done switch before!
I've had the pleasure of being able to draw a handful of people in to Kronos simply by streaming and introducing them to (imo) the best vanilla experience out on the market, but I still feel as though I could be doing more, and that has let me to the jump-start of a project I intend to helm and manage for the single purpose of addressing what I believe to be the single most important obstacle worth addressing for new players: the grind. The reason I'm sharing this idea with you before putting it out on the reddit or spreading it elsewhere is because I also need your help! I will need a handful of folks from both factions willing to take part in this project in order for it to be successful (for players of both factions of course).
Introducing the ZIP-2-60 Questing Assistance Project!
What this project aims to do: Assist in the completion of difficult or otherwise un-doable quests for new players who have difficulty forming parties or getting over an XP gap due to a log of difficult quests, with the higher objective of motivating newer players to roll knowing they can always rely on assistance from their friendly neighborhood Kronos player to help get them up to speed.
How we plan to do it: I will be managing a queue system where I take requests from new players. The player-in-need will describe the quest that they would like to complete (or even group of quests!) and then I will contact someone on my roster of awesome epic raid-geared players to go and assist said player in clearing out those pesky quests! When the "helper" player is ready to assist with the quest assignment I've assigned them, they will send a message to the leveling player when they are online, in an effort to group up and help complete the task requested. When the task is finished, I will be notified by the helper, and it will be cleared from the queue. I can only take as many requests as I have people to send out! That includes myself, by the way! Of course this system can be abused by lazy people who want others to do everything for them, so...
At the moment the plan is to take requests for Elite grade quests only.
This includes dungeon runs.
By simply carrying you through quests denoted as being clearable by the player themself outside of a group, we risk infringing on the intended leveling experience of a Vanilla realm by "over-helping". To some, they don't care what-so-ever as long as they get their quests done as quickly as possible, but this is a point I intend to hold strong on because Kronos's ability to immerse people in the vanilla experience is significant, in my opinion, so for now I only plan to deal in elite quests or dungeon runs around the level of 40 and below (above 40 can be arranged depending on the dungeon and the class of the player helping).
This circumvents the issue of needing to find a group and wasting a lot of valuable XP time, both in terms of the the dungeon and their elite quests, which can sometimes be very difficult to find other people lined up on the same quests in your zone when you're playing. It can really take a stresser off of a new leveler knowing they can fall back on the Zip-to-60 team to help them in a bind where they aren't getting bites in world chat.
I'm going to use this thread to start a list or roster so to speak of people on both factions who would be willing to participate in such a project. Those interested should be (ideally) level 60 and/or pretty close to 60 otherwise you risk being unhelpful on certain higher level quests, have Skype or some easy method of contact similar (at worst I can make a horde alt), and have a thing for helping others and wanting Kronos to get better
.Alliance Helpers
Zipzo
Sidney
Chalia
Montecristo
Horde Helpers
Volrat
Tekai
Diazepam
Druzz
Now This project cannot succeed without your guys' help, so if nobody volunteers to be a part of it then unfortunately it's back to the drawing board for me on ways that I can help Kronos grow. Here's to hoping others can see the value in this idea! Look forward to your responses/criticisms/ideas on how to maybe even make the idea better! See you guys around.
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