Visitor Center, PLEASE
Dave Scott
Are you tired of answering the same questions from new people, day after day? Yeah, me too. I love helping people but we desperately need a Visitor Center. Located right in the plaza of the City Center. A place where new people can go for directions, to find events, and to learn the basics of getting around in Somnium Space. How else are they going to know what to do? Once you are in Somnium Space, you're pretty much on your own unless you can hunt down another user to give you a helping hand. And this Visitor Center MUST be in the City Center. Otherwise new people will not find it. I am sure we are losing dozens of new people every day because they are confused and lost. They're not going to check out a web site or scour Discord for answers once they are actually in Somnium Space. If you need someone to build this thing, I gladly volunteer my services. Let's git 'er done!
Skumpii
Yes, do something to keep daily active users (DAU)
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Creature13
Multilanguage support is a paramount feature for this.
Dave Scott
Creature13: That would be great but people come to Somnium Space from all over. Many different countries, many different languages. Setting the Visitor Center up to handle several different languages would be a monumental task. Perhaps we could do a lot by having photos and drawings display the information. I did that with a Visitor Center I built a while back, but it was never used or promoted, so I bulldozed it. Something must be done though.
There are no instructions for playing this "game", leaving a new user to scrounge up information where ever they can find it. Unless there is some sort of in-game information center, we will continually lose new users who try Somnium Space and leave because they are frustrated and disillusioned. They are dropped off into an empty world with no help.
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Creature13
Dave Scott: Point taken. I agree that a visitor center would be very beneficial.