A lot of newer users have problems negotiating their ways around all the portals that we currently have at spawn. Yes, they are color coded for the most part, and some are outlined in a special block to differ them from others. What I was thinking is that instead of having all of these portals scattered about, why not group them together? Have one large portal at spawn, name that portal WILD. What this portal will do is send any person who enters it in to another room where all the portals leading to the **wild are at. This would simplify things for a new user by giving them a large portal named wild which leads to all the wild portals.
I also agree. We have a room(s) for town portals, and it would be nice if there was room(s) for other types of portals - Wild and Build, at least. Those two types have a lot of portals. New users get overwhelmed really easy, and having everything right in their face without an easy organization can be confusing and scare people.
Its also a little bit more difficult to explain to a newer user where to go in order to find the wild. Having one large portal leading to the multiple directional portals will make it easier on mods to explain how to get to the wild. But like headcase stated, it makes things more simple. If we can keep every thing as simple as possible it will help retain our users on the server, since it will be easier to get around.
Agreed. It would make the new users 100% more happy, and not confussed and Overwhelmed by the amount of portals around them, also, when explaining it, if we had this it would make it alot more easier for the users. I think this would be a very good addition.
It was how i more or less originally designed it, but it keeps getting more cluttered. I had originally intended on the top floor of the shop area to be the main hub with portals to places,
I like your designs, KHobbits. :3 This one is nice, but as we add more it does because a bit cluttered. Before the huge influx of users, it wasn't too hard to navigate. But, with more users standing around there, it feels tighter and overwhelming with so much happening in one place.
I hate not being able to see the spawn shops straight away, since i always (edit) forget which way they are, so i walk around jumping till i see them. Is that just me? Its just me isnt it...
Yes, I remember this. How ever, as it stands now with all the users logging in right on top of the portals, it makes it too cluttered to easily find your way around. Instead of having a large numbers of portals at spawn,I think we need to reduce the number by having one portal going to room filled with many portals. I.E, like how the town portals are currently set up. I would like to see that same idea used for the wild portals.
I also agree that the spawn usually gets crowded, so I think this idea would work effectively. Good Idea.
I like the idea, less people milling around in the same spot at spawn trying to figure out where to go etc, make it nice an centralized for all the wild portals.
Heck why don't we try and add a command to get to the wild portal room and completely so we don't have to even put in a portal.
The only command possible is /warp wild or whatever, and warps are only available for donators. (There also already are /warps for all of the wild directional portals)
