The Right path for new Players

With the recent influx of new players, I am wondering what's the right path of progress for them.
Some of them have set up their own sepreate alliance and although I can understand the emotional reason behind that, I am not sure it's the best thing for them in practice.

And as for the quality of existing training alliances, I am disappointed by the quality of their 'teaching' barring a few.(recruited two graduates last month and we had to ask them to move some of their existing towns as they were horribly placed to defend).

And even those training alliances which are good are facing problem of too many. You can see thier members in GC asking for res as there are not many vets in their alliance to support such a large number. And the biggest problem they are facing is again settling spots as training alliance hardly have a territory of their own, newb's wanting to exodus/tenaril face major issues.


I would like to know the thoughts of community in this regards as I genuinely want to see the new batch of newB's to flourish and provide a wider base for our community.

My alliance has gotten some LOU players and we love them a lot! :) As well as non-LOU players that have come because of the increase in advertisement :)

The right path varies from player to player of course. The all-newbie alliances that have popped up lately seem not the best idea to me because no one there knows about the game very well so far. Some of these have died very quickly, but hopefully some will thrive.   But for many players, I think joining an older medium-sized alliance is probably best. In particular, joining an established alliance with some friends (for example other LOU players) seems like the best of both worlds.    Although there are not as many 'official' training alliances as there used to be, there are still plenty of newbie-friendly alliances who love the chance to help some new players after the draught of them for much of last year. I admit it can be a bit hard to know which alliance will help train you in the art of illy when you just start out. I do think more training alliances again would be a good idea. They are not the best for all players, but it is a very good option for some.

Also, the current practice some players are taking of spending some time growing in GC before directly jumping into an alliance is a good one and most newbie guides now suggest this. That way they can find people who not just send resources, not just send alliance invites, but also answer questions/respond to emails/offer advice. They should make contacts with some established players during this time and hopefully stay friends with them regardless of what alliance they choose. That way if they accidently join an alliance that really doesn't suit them, their old-player friends can support them in the (admittedly not always easy) task of leaving one alliance and finding one more suitable. I would hope plenty of established players are willing to be friends with new players, even if they choose an alliance diferent than yours.



I am sorry if, as Angrim says, some of the new players have not been treated well. It can be hard, in particular for the LOU refugees, because LOU is simply a different game and some people simply won't end up enjoying the slow pace and different community of illy.   Are we chaotic and disorganized? sure. But still better than many games I believe. Our responsibility as the illy community continues to be to welcome new players, explain (poiltely!) some of the differences this game might have to others, answer questions. There are an increasing amount of LOU players who have been in illy long enough to start to get a good feel of it, so hopefully those will start being able to help new LOU players in certain ways that non-LOU players can't.   For the rest of us... just help as we can. Can we get better? sure. Though I think we are not doing too bad already.

sorry for the long-winded response with no useful concrete suggestions xD But I do think conversations like this are good since helping new players is part of what makes illy great.

I'm going to weigh in here as a newbie (AND LoU refugee) who has been playing long enough to get somewhat of a feel for Illyriad:

Edited by Dragonwort - 05 May 2014 at 12:15