It’s super late (early even) here so I’m going to keep this brief, but I want to offer an alternative scenario:
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Run around on survival for a few minutes, complete the tutorial and have nearly 1000 coin. Whack a few nox/swords along the way for bonus coin.
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Buy 2 portal conduits for 150 coin.
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Place the portal conduits in your tutorial build.
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( a ) Run around T3 for dormants for a while (could be long time or not depends on many things)
( b ) Find an escort around a T3 for some quick oort
( c ) Warp to a friend on a larger hunt for some quick oort and to begin a lasting revenue stream -
Open your portal.
Admittedly I’m oversimplifying a little, but it seems like you’re pushing hard in the other direction.
There are lots of people willing to help in various ways. And someone who wants to “Be a part of the community” will have no problem finding that help. There’s regular discussion here of “helping” people so much it wrecks the game for them.
I can have some sympathy for this hypothetical complete new player but really I’m not coming into empathy with many of the scenarios being presented. If they want to bridge both worlds they need to operate in both worlds, and to me that just doesn’t seem like too much to ask.
By the time they’ve done even the most minimal prep to bridge the gap (no need for a completely solo, no economy, total solution) they will be able to acquire what they need. The point is they’re trying to be part of the community, right?
It would be so much better to be sorting community oriented solutions than just repeatedly painting more and more detailed pictures of how awful it could possibly be in the very worst case.
EDIT: I left out extraction, sorry rushing.
Buying an extractor is cheap and no power required. with a single spark generator and link it’s another couple hundred coins.
Also I’ve traded rough for shards before after taking a new player on a hunt, as well. As a community we can simplify this.