On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, omd wrote: > >> - Mention that reading the entire ruleset is not a requirement for joining. > >> - More generally, there should be a guide for new players. > > > > Honestly, rather than a guidebook, maybe we should strive to set up some > > gameplay activity that can be jumped into with a New Player bonus. > > How about both? In the short-to-medium term, gameplay activity's nice > to jump into, but Agora's been more meta in its priorities than most > nomics for as long as I've played it, so a guidebook for that part > would be good, and last pretty well in the long term (half of that > 20-year-old one would still apply today).
It's only been meta in priorities since 2007 (Contracts). You can see a huge uptick in CFJs during the 2008-2012 years compared to previous. Just as a note, some main proponents of "it's always been meta that way" (yourself, ais523, maybe scshunt?) all joined in that period. I'm a big proponent of the 2002-2005 style of play (my salad years) that were Not That Way. -G.
