Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Tutorial: autoexplore, IRC, and bloodstains

[William T. <wta...@gm...>]

David Ploog wrote:
> I agree that XL 7 is too late. I would not mention o in the intro however.
> We are talking about players who perhaps never touched a roguelike before. 
> I think we should mention o earlier, similar to how and when we mention 
> the overmap.

I would like to see autoexplore discussed in the tutorial, perhaps along
with 'X>' (or whatever you're actually supposed to use when
autoexploring is complete -- X> is just what I press). I find it to be
very enjoyable, although risky (the risk is that you won't notice some
item).

> 4) There should be a D:0, for tutorial purposes only. D:0 should be empty 
> (a single room is enough), with the starting gear littered around and the 
> player being naked. The player should be guided to pick up the gear and 
> wear/wield it.

These aren't bad ideas, although perhaps we should consider them
carefully -- the current tutorial has the interesting characteristic
that it's exactly identical to the real game, and this would lose that.
I'm not sure whether losing that is actually bad :-).

This would be hard for us to focus-group -- perhaps we ought to watch a
friend or coworker start playing the tutorial for the first time, and
see what they say.

> David

-Wm