About the "New Player Test"

[Former-GM-Circe]

Shikari Wrote:

GM-Circe Wrote:We sort them by one standard: their desire to play heRO.

Unless of course you mean that the standard is:

You pass the test-> you have desire to play HeRO.
You don't pass the test-> you have no desire to play HeRO.

I didn't mean it like that.
I meant it like "Downloaded the heRO client and logged on." Desire to play heRO. So, you're in the heRO players "group" and as such, you go through the rules NPC. Like every other player.

You never download heRO, and you never log into the server. Then, you don't really have a desire to play heRO. In which case, you don't go through the rules NPC, because... you don't exist on the server.



Aaronock; Unless I'm a complete noob at scripting (possible ), the only way to tell if an existing player had other characters on their account without having to go through the rules NPC test again would be a direct DB call, and I'm not sure I like coupling that right next to text input areas. (But hey, possible scripting noob here. )



The bottom line is, here on heRO, we expect 1 (or 2 depending on how you read it) thing(s) of the players:

Read the rules, and follow them.

If making sure that at least the first half of that is definitely done is considered too much work in players eyes, then sigh.