WarMongerian
Active member
Date: April 25th, 2024. 0030 hours...
I'm back to play and share some 7dtd experiences! Some disclaimers and clarifications.
Right now, I play the basic game with just a single modification, and that is editing the game file to allow/enforce that all players start by spawning in the exact same point. Having several games (of brand new players) being spawned in various and scattered locations left ma and those I played/learned with feeling that not enough focus had been spent of making team/party play a thing from the very start. We also shifted from public servers/24-7 games to private games, where we the players controlled when the game would be running and when it would not, so our characters would be present and playing whenever the game time was running. Playing on all but one setting setup to allow the easiest starter experience for new players (which was and still is my main focus), I quickly discovered that not everyone likes the same things from their playing of 7dtd, experienced players would find the settings to easy, and some folks just wanted to kill zombies, with nothing else mattering.
My own personal goals are to provide new players with an easy intro into the game, and to this end I am looking for suggestions on how best to provide a friendly and mutually supportive playing experience for the new players to learn what is what, and how things are done.
All that being said, my current plans are to create a new character every sunday, and then solo or team play that character up to and through a hoard night or two. I plan to document the highlights and failures of this process, and provide pictures and eventually videos for others to enjoy, even if only to point out what a clueless jerk I am for spending quality playing time on doing this, rather than just killing zombies.
To this end I am going to at first just share my screen in a discord voice channel, and folks can watch what I am doing and make suggestions. Please keep in mind that all this work will be focused on making it a fun and enjoyable experience for new players to start to enjoy the game, not for folks to watch endless and perfectly efficient zombie massacres. Once players have played enough to know how to order their little digital dudes and ladies about within the game, I"ll be looking for some fellow adventures to share the journey.
Eventually, I hope to create a number of videos that cover such minute points as how to build a campfire, place a cooking pot and grill within it, and how to use these to make the basics of murky water cleaning, grilled meat, charred meat, cooked corn and such things. Such a video will best be created and stored as part of a series, So I'll have to learn how to make these things. I also want to learn how to teach others how to teach simple things, to the improvement of the player base.
To keep the task manageable for a one man show like me, links to sites that do much of this would be a big help. I'm not looking to cover the whole game, just the first few days of a characters life in the post apocalypse world of 7dtd. I also want to try team builds/play out, where a somewhat more experienced group can plan their shared play out, once folks have learned how things work, and what they like to do, and how to make the most of each others capabilities. One thing I already tried was the Intellect/charisma build, but the experiment failed do to the advanced stage of the game and bad coordination.
Anyway, I'll be looking to start this project this upcoming Sunday, April the 28th, @1200 hours EDT. The first few sessions will not be publicly joinable as I get things sorted out, but I will be posting things here, and asking advice. Keep in mind the focus on new players, private games, either solo or team oriented. Have fun, and I hope to create a new game/forum thread each Sunday.
I'm back to play and share some 7dtd experiences! Some disclaimers and clarifications.
Right now, I play the basic game with just a single modification, and that is editing the game file to allow/enforce that all players start by spawning in the exact same point. Having several games (of brand new players) being spawned in various and scattered locations left ma and those I played/learned with feeling that not enough focus had been spent of making team/party play a thing from the very start. We also shifted from public servers/24-7 games to private games, where we the players controlled when the game would be running and when it would not, so our characters would be present and playing whenever the game time was running. Playing on all but one setting setup to allow the easiest starter experience for new players (which was and still is my main focus), I quickly discovered that not everyone likes the same things from their playing of 7dtd, experienced players would find the settings to easy, and some folks just wanted to kill zombies, with nothing else mattering.
My own personal goals are to provide new players with an easy intro into the game, and to this end I am looking for suggestions on how best to provide a friendly and mutually supportive playing experience for the new players to learn what is what, and how things are done.
All that being said, my current plans are to create a new character every sunday, and then solo or team play that character up to and through a hoard night or two. I plan to document the highlights and failures of this process, and provide pictures and eventually videos for others to enjoy, even if only to point out what a clueless jerk I am for spending quality playing time on doing this, rather than just killing zombies.
To this end I am going to at first just share my screen in a discord voice channel, and folks can watch what I am doing and make suggestions. Please keep in mind that all this work will be focused on making it a fun and enjoyable experience for new players to start to enjoy the game, not for folks to watch endless and perfectly efficient zombie massacres. Once players have played enough to know how to order their little digital dudes and ladies about within the game, I"ll be looking for some fellow adventures to share the journey.
Eventually, I hope to create a number of videos that cover such minute points as how to build a campfire, place a cooking pot and grill within it, and how to use these to make the basics of murky water cleaning, grilled meat, charred meat, cooked corn and such things. Such a video will best be created and stored as part of a series, So I'll have to learn how to make these things. I also want to learn how to teach others how to teach simple things, to the improvement of the player base.
To keep the task manageable for a one man show like me, links to sites that do much of this would be a big help. I'm not looking to cover the whole game, just the first few days of a characters life in the post apocalypse world of 7dtd. I also want to try team builds/play out, where a somewhat more experienced group can plan their shared play out, once folks have learned how things work, and what they like to do, and how to make the most of each others capabilities. One thing I already tried was the Intellect/charisma build, but the experiment failed do to the advanced stage of the game and bad coordination.
Anyway, I'll be looking to start this project this upcoming Sunday, April the 28th, @1200 hours EDT. The first few sessions will not be publicly joinable as I get things sorted out, but I will be posting things here, and asking advice. Keep in mind the focus on new players, private games, either solo or team oriented. Have fun, and I hope to create a new game/forum thread each Sunday.
