Quote Originally Posted by IronClan View Post
Nice job OP.

The global chat channel not being world wide is one of the dumbest things in a long line of dumb things about DDO as it pertains to new players.

That said it could be surmised that players who need lots of hand holding are probably not going to be DDO players for long due to the relative complexity and D&D rules and the arcane UI of this game. Still I can't help but think a global chat channel would be better for new player retention.

getting rid of E for BB would be a big impact on finding more groups and overcoming the inertia of only ever finding Elite groups to join.

Put the LFM panel on it's own button near the AS would make the grouping options so much more visible (If I had a 100tp for every time I've seen "anyone want to help me do X" or "how do you group in this game" it's obvious that the LFM panel is not obvious enough.

making advice and trade global

making the party chat tab automatically jump to the front on joining a group (with option to disable for Vets)

publishing a new default new player area Keep on the Borderlands with level 1 through 7 content centered in the Hall of Heroes, so the new player would enjoy the more well laid out and less confusing Hall instead of Harbor then Marketplace...
Thanks Iron. Lots of good ideas, the layout of the game interface is indeed not very intuitive, or at least not by todays game standards. It's kind of like old school Nintendo game controls where you would had to do something funky like push up and press "B" to jump instead of just pressing "B" in games that are coming out now.

I will handhold in quest if someone needs help but I don't really want to so I don't want to put myself in a position where I will be doing that. Up until now any guild invitations or group invites I politely refuse and I have a roll play kind of script saying "Thank you so very kindly for your invitation. I am but a humble messenger commissioned by the adventurers of Eberron. I wish you the best in the building of your guild." For party invites I have a similar message. Besides, I am usually dual boxing with my main toons and am playing them somewhere so focused on that.

I'm not getting my hopes up for any sweeping structural changes at this point but I think what we are looking at here is pretty doable by people depending on their level of interest. Of course everyone is here to play the game and no one wants to turn their game time into "information desk" time. But even just a word of support for activities, being conscious of players around you, or stepping in to help someone with an easy word of advice is totally fine. The words of support in this thread alone are cool.

Quote Originally Posted by Nachomammashouse View Post
Lol does that say "Velcome"?

Great idea +1!
Yeah, "Welcome" was taken :/
I kind of imagine it like a vampire would say it, "Velcome, muahahaha!!!"
The other option would have been "Welcom" but anyway.

Quote Originally Posted by Starla70 View Post
Really good idea. I like the LFM idea as well.
Thanks, yeah the LFM method works well and is pretty easy. It looks like there are 3 methods of varying complexity in getting the word out, that is Chat Messages-> LFM Messages -> Greeters.