New Player Experience Improvements

[DragonMasterHawk]

There are far more important things to address for the new player experience, most new players have played some sort of game like this before and would know that adventurers are murderous bastards.

Not only is this wrong, it's an exceedingly dangerous way of thinking. In terms of "classic roguelikes", Tome is easily the biggest and receives the most outside attention. It's even on Steam. There's really no basis to assume much of anything regarding new players.

In fact, it's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you design with those sorts of assumptions, then over time your assumptions will become true.

[HousePet]

The second half of that sentence was a joke.

[Mankeli]

There are far more important things to address for the new player experience, most new players have played some sort of game like this before and would know that adventurers are murderous bastards.

Not only is this wrong, it's an exceedingly dangerous way of thinking. In terms of "classic roguelikes", Tome is easily the biggest and receives the most outside attention. It's even on Steam. There's really no basis to assume much of anything regarding new players.

In fact, it's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you design with those sorts of assumptions, then over time your assumptions will become true.

Eh, first time noobs not starting on insane difficulty is a pretty darn realistic assumption to make which I personally feel was kind of the point HousePet was trying to make (in the part of the post that you failed to quote). I don't really understand how people who 1) have played the game for a long time and 2) because of the former, have been new players once themselves can't make any predictions of what new players might or might not like. The whole point of additional difficulty levels is the add challenge after you have have learned how to play the game and feel like facing additional challenges.