I spent a lot of time today helping someone that had deleted BL then just re-installed it. He said he wanted to play it with his son, but found everything too complicated.
He couldn’t understand the whole beacon/plot system. He had trouble locating his menus.Had trouble understanding how to get/make a place. Couldn’t understand why he couldn’t do anything (I had to explain the he had to go into his menu, in the exchange, buy plots, make fuel, place a beacon…yada yada…). Even after I help a lot of these people, they give up and say it’s too complicated. This one said everything was overwhelming.
I keep running into noobs that don’t get past the campfire/plot/beacon thing. It’s like lemmings falling off a cliff and only one or two here and there make it across to the other side.
This game has a large learning curve…which is awesome once you get into it, but you have to get to that point where you get hooked. If people can’t just spawn, start placing blocks, digging up dirt, etc…then it needs to be explained and/or they need a safe/simple place to learn.
This is why I think noobs could use an incubator: Central Spawn Location for Everyone & Community Event Center