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<description>&lt;div&gt;The other night I decided to finally do some testing with CU2.0 on a new level 1 character and see how it plays out. Much to my liking I was really impressed with how much of a difference it makes but have some suggestions and comments that need to be addressed to make sure that new players have a better experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. After starting in at Uriah hardline I was wandering how a new player would get his hotbars in place. Which I figured that it would be really confusing to them...especially to fill up 2 bars with differetn abilities. This might be remedied by the new training tutorial 2.0 but thats not out yet to my knowledge and my character was made when it wasn&apos;t available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;New players really need to know how to get a sense of arrangement of the hotbar. I really think that the styles should have their own separate UI that is free-floating so that they don&apos;t have to put it on the hotbar and take up space. Once a new player gets into using 3+ hotbars full of buttons to push right off the bat...things get really confusing. And for a new player this might be very distracting and not very appealing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. OK so next I ran through the contacts figuring out how to use them to gain stuff, which worked out great for a new player to get orientated to doing that sort of thing. But next I had to start killing the mobs to get their unique items for trade...this is where it got really different.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I know that you guys were wanting to make the low levels have a much easier time killing npc&apos;s and getting used to the system but I think its a little too easy personally. This is because there is absolutely no way that a player can die in Uriah...even as a level 1 vs. a level 5. NPC&apos;s in Uriah only do 1 pt damage to you evertime they hit you while you do 35-50 pts damage to them. I actually tried to see if I could die and ran around shooting the npc&apos;s once so that they would start to shoot at me. I got up to 9 people shooting at me while I stood around and watched. I waited about 2 minutes and started killing them. They only took off half of my life and I think my health regen was just too much for them to handle which is odd for a level 2 fighting level 3&apos;s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the npc&apos;s should be taking up to 5 pts damage off of the player to make it more of a fight since the npc&apos;s don&apos;t automatically shoot at you if you run close to them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. I finally started to run some missions from tyndall. I decided since the npc&apos;s weren&apos;t very hard that I&apos;d run all the missions on &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; difficulty. And not suprisingly the missions were far from hard. within 2 hours I went from level 1 to level 5 because of the easiness of the missions and how much xp you get from hard level missions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. after I got to level 5, I decided to check out the new spy tree for lower levels. I really like it but there&apos;s some major things that must be addressed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;First off, I went to buy all the abilities on the first screen of the spy tree but one of the can&apos;t be bought from the operative vendors. I can&apos;t remember the name of the ability but it has the bulldog symbol in red and is on the left side second one down and is a required ability to finish that level of the spy tree. Because you can&apos;t buy it, it makes it really hard to get it because you have to code it. This is fine, but new players probably won&apos;t be able to figure this out. But if they did, its still really confusing for the new player because once you get to the screen to code it, as a new player I didn&apos;t have all the code bits needed to make the ability and the 4 main codes that are needed are red and unable to be coded. There&apos;s one problem though, that it doesn&apos;t explain what code bits you need to be looking for in order to be able to code those 4 ability codes...you can see how confusing this would be for a new player very quickly. So needless to say I tried farming for the bits for about an hour and still wasn&apos;t able to get the bits needed to code the required ability.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5. So while I was farming for the bits I noticed that being a level 5 spy I could kill the blackwood gang members really easily...with just one hit. The blackwoods have 150-250 hp&apos;s at level 5 and the sneak attack for spy at level 5 does 250+ damage with one hit. The player can just wait for the re-use timer while activating sneak again and kill them pretty fast. Maybe set the reuse timer up a little higher so that the spys don&apos;t use this for every attack and not have to actually fight unless they want to waste time by waiting for the reuse timer. Other than that, I&apos;m really impressed with the low level spy tree. Its really easy to use and very effective.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6. I tried out data miner for a minute and stopped because it was way too time consuming and not worth doing at all. At level 5 I was able to find data nodes but 99% of the time I failed at tapping them. After about 15 attempts and breaking 6+ nodes I was finally successful but only got 300 XP....which was really disapointing. There needs to be better incentive to data mine at lower levels...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;7. Not sure if this was a bug or not but I went to the hacker vendor in uriah and was able to unequip and equip abilities from the vendor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thats all I&apos;ve got for now...I&apos;ll keep up on the new player experience and the new spy tree.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I hope this helps a little bit.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:35:20 GMT</pubDate>
<author>bonobi</author>
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<title>Re: my new character experience with CU2.0</title>
<description>&lt;span&gt;:smileysurprised:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks for the awesome feedback!!! This will definitely help &lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&quot; /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:36:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;That was awesome feedback. We need more of these.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:38:12 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Byte_Crawler</author>
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<title>Re: my new character experience with CU2.0</title>
<description>How has the XP changed?&lt;br&gt;I ask because you said within 2 hours you got to Level 5 - under the old system (assuming you collect all the tokens for the Industrial Clothing) it takes me about an hour to get to Level 5 just killing NPCs.&lt;br&gt;I&apos;d imagine that, given the same XP reward, if the NPCs are now that easy to kill it would take even less time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:37:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;thats it...its way to easy to level to 5.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the xp for the npcs were easy to level to 3 then i started doing the missions which on hard i ran through 4+ of them quickly enough to level 2 times.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:44:46 GMT</pubDate>
<author>bonobi</author>
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<description>&lt;div&gt;which I never did get the clothes at uriah...didn&apos;t want to take the time to get them. Plus I didn&apos;t need them because the npc&apos;s were too easy.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:45:47 GMT</pubDate>
<author>bonobi</author>
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<description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;sorry for the triple reply...grr&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I  wanted to share my experience with the Uriah Dungeon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ran down solo with my level 5 character and was suprised by the layout because it was strange.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;sublevel 2 had level 1 con-yellow (i think) which I was able to run right past without them flinching. I wasn&apos;t sure if this was because it was in uriah where noone attacks but i found out it was intended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So sub level 3 had level 3 npc&apos;s there. And still I was able to run right through them without them flinching.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But once I got to sublevel 4 it changed. The levels go up by 3 each level down which is odd and these guys were level 6 which is finally over my level and they started attacking me right after I left the elevator. I barely escaped them  and I couldn&apos;t get more than 3-4 npcs in to the level before dying.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This dungeon (not sure if the other low level ones are the same) is really out of whack. The level&apos;s of the npc&apos;s are too varied from each level down and even attempting to get to the bottom with a team you&apos;d have to wait until you were at least level 6 to do it, which means the first two levels are completely pointless at 1 &amp;amp;3 level npc&apos;s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;you need to change their levels to be 1 level each floor down instead of 3...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:55:38 GMT</pubDate>
<author>bonobi</author>
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<description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 hours to get to lvl 5 is about right. It takes about 2-3 hours for me *on the normal server* to get me from 1-7+. Without help from anyone. With help i can get to lvl 12+ in a few hours (but i think thats a normal thing *shrug* )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So reading that part doesn&apos;t sound like anythings off.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:28:19 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Seperioth</author>
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