HELPING NEW PLAYERS
ROLL OUT THE WELCOME WAGON
There's more you can do, as well as just helping new players with the mechanics of getting started. While you are helping the newbod on her first steps in the game, you should make her feel loved and wanted. Fed is a social game so make sure she feels that she can join the community.
Far too many games are made of up cliques that exclude new players, or even go out of their way to drive them away. You need to make sure our new players realize Fed is different.
Your help needn't stop once she gets into her first ship, either. You could consider adopting the new player, and taking her under your wing for the future. Actually making friends with her.
You could tell her to look out for you when she comes back to the game, and if you see her in the future make a point of saying Hi again. Introduce her to your friends. Ask your friends to join you in a bar to have a drink with her.
As she promotes up the ranks, make sure she understands the new things that she has to do at each level. You will benefit from this eventually, because you will be able to encourage her to trade on your planet, build factories you need, and later join your cartel.
These are the personal touches that bind the Fed community together and form long-lasting friendships and bonds. Make the effort to bring new players into the social groups.
