Many games have few minutes long tutorials, introductory missions etc., which tells you about the game and include some basics. osu! have an old tutorial map, but it's very basic and don't cover most of the stuff. Many people mention that we need a new tutorial, both to say more about the game and introduce new players to the things that old tutorial don't even mention, but there's also another aspect of it.
osu! keeps growing, along with its community and I think that it should be somehow brought up in new tutorial, if the one will come to live. Many people that join the game don't know how to behave in public chats. We have things like : https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Short_Rules , but many people have no idea about their existence for a long time.
After seeing dramas in #osu about someone seeing break-the-lawner, over and over, which is hard to put into control before putting lashes on the person in guilt, as dozens or random users just keep mentioning him in channel over the time, I think that all users should know better that they shouldn't mention such things and drop the topic. It doesn't need to be said explicitly, but "by the way", in the new tutorial (if we will have one), along with some other rules, as one of the most recurring warnings are not to talk in other languages in #osu.
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My idea: there could be a build-in tutorial. When the new version of the game will be out, then the first time you open the game, you will have a choice:
# to watch tutorial,
# to skip it, or
# to remind a player next time he opens the game (optional).
Tutorial would be present somewhere in the game all the time, with easy access to it, so it can be watched or played at any time.
It could be few minutes long (or few minutes short
) introduction to the game, including a need to click some circles by yourself and a quick summary of how to behave in public, like
> "use #lobby to look for a people to play multiplayer game with",
> "don't use other language that English in public game channels (short list here), go to your language channel instead"
> don't spam and do some other stuff that is definitely unwanted, keep an eye on how many lines you take, while writing
> "If you see that other player is doing something illegal or there's a chance that he's cheating, don't bring attention to what he does. Instead, [just report him [in the background video showing how to report someone]].
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What do you think about this?
I know that it's maybe not top priority thing, but having a new, build in tutorial, which not only brings up and explains things about the game, but also introduces people to rules we all try to uphold here, would be a very nice thing to have!
There can be few levels of tutorial, about different game related stuff, like mapping, adjusting some preferences, more advanced gameplay, explanation about how to play for every game mode, etc.
Also, the most basic one, introductory one, would include some of the social rules, which would be definitely helpful and made the work of Moderators much more pleasurable, as they, hopefully, wouldn't need as many iterations of the things they unfortunately have to repeat over and over again, as now =)
osu! keeps growing, along with its community and I think that it should be somehow brought up in new tutorial, if the one will come to live. Many people that join the game don't know how to behave in public chats. We have things like : https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Short_Rules , but many people have no idea about their existence for a long time.
After seeing dramas in #osu about someone seeing break-the-lawner, over and over, which is hard to put into control before putting lashes on the person in guilt, as dozens or random users just keep mentioning him in channel over the time, I think that all users should know better that they shouldn't mention such things and drop the topic. It doesn't need to be said explicitly, but "by the way", in the new tutorial (if we will have one), along with some other rules, as one of the most recurring warnings are not to talk in other languages in #osu.
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My idea: there could be a build-in tutorial. When the new version of the game will be out, then the first time you open the game, you will have a choice:
# to watch tutorial,
# to skip it, or
# to remind a player next time he opens the game (optional).
Tutorial would be present somewhere in the game all the time, with easy access to it, so it can be watched or played at any time.
It could be few minutes long (or few minutes short
) introduction to the game, including a need to click some circles by yourself and a quick summary of how to behave in public, like > "use #lobby to look for a people to play multiplayer game with",
> "don't use other language that English in public game channels (short list here), go to your language channel instead"
> don't spam and do some other stuff that is definitely unwanted, keep an eye on how many lines you take, while writing
> "If you see that other player is doing something illegal or there's a chance that he's cheating, don't bring attention to what he does. Instead, [just report him [in the background video showing how to report someone]].
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What do you think about this?
I know that it's maybe not top priority thing, but having a new, build in tutorial, which not only brings up and explains things about the game, but also introduces people to rules we all try to uphold here, would be a very nice thing to have!
There can be few levels of tutorial, about different game related stuff, like mapping, adjusting some preferences, more advanced gameplay, explanation about how to play for every game mode, etc.
Also, the most basic one, introductory one, would include some of the social rules, which would be definitely helpful and made the work of Moderators much more pleasurable, as they, hopefully, wouldn't need as many iterations of the things they unfortunately have to repeat over and over again, as now =)