Shattered Kingdoms

It's pretty easy to figure out in game rationale for Ayamao being closed if you participate in current events. I do think a high level Announcement board note --- or even MoTD note --- saying "Ayamao currently closed for new characters" might be helpful to newbies. It's not reasonable however to request full help file rewrites for dynamic or as-yet-not-fully-announced changes.

That's a reasonable suggestion. Perhaps a comment to this effect in the "Ayamao" help file would be a good idea to add.


In regard to the Ayamao help file, it's still accurate. The Ayamao is a geographic region, the Ayamaoan Alliance is a political entity. While the political situation for the centaurs of Grahme is in flux, it remains true that the centaur village of Grahme is, indeed, still within the Ayamao. If other changes continue, requiring help files to be changed, then we'll do our best to keep them updated as events unroll. Constructive helpers to let us know when one has been missed are, of course, welcomed.

I just want to say that although I was disappointed with the new academy, I decided to keep playing. I've had very good interactions with all sorts of characters. Thank you everyone who is kind to newbies!

A newbie who stuck around in spite of the terrible newbie academy, because of player interaction. Wow, how surprisi...wait no, I said that direct player interaction was 100x more important than the lame academy in the GD thread.

I read this and think that I joined a mud that is dying.

Happy to report I've seen some of the highest player counts in months recently. We had 20 on all week and 35 last weekend. Don't think this place is dying yet.

Agreed.

Perhaps however long ago/ when the game was made there may have been more players, before the advent of graphic MMORPGs.
Staff may only be recently downshifting. There are certainly quieter hours and busier hours, but the count today is what it was at least for the last 3 years.

So I made a character in the last week or so, after not playing in 6+ months and there is really only one thing I felt the hurt on. It was awfully difficult to find "newbie" trainers from some skills and spells without the newbie zones being open. I'm sure those skills/spells are available from other trainers I don't know about it, but it was definitely a culture shock. That said a new player would never even know what they were missing so... I guess its all a moot point right?

At least one former newbie zone has been adjusted and re-opened. But if you feel it's too hard to find a trainer for something specific, it's really easy for us to check and tweak if necessary. A quick pray would probably work, so long as you don't get spammy about it.