"NEWBIE SUPPORT" "Newbie Areas", "Newbie Channels", "Newbie Helpers",
"Newbie Helpfiles", "Newbie Hints", "Newbie Tutorials".
Can be used multiple times if you have various forms of
newbie support, leave empty if there's no newbie support.
"NEWBIE SUPPORT" "Newbie Areas", "Newbie Channels", "Newbie Helpers", "Newbie Helpfiles",
"Newbie Hints", "Newbie Schools", "Newbie Tutorials". Can be used multiple
times if you have various forms of newbie support, leave empty if there's
no newbie support.
"NEWBIE SUPPORT" "Newbie Areas", "Newbie Channel", "Newbie Helpers", "Newbie Helpfiles",
"Newbie Hints", "Newbie School", "Newbie Tutorial". Can be used multiple
times if you have various forms of newbie support, leave empty if there's
no newbie support.
"NEWBIE SUPPORT" "Newbie Areas", "Newbie Channel", "Helpers", "Helpfiles",
"Hint System", "MUD School", "Tutorial". Can be used multiple
times if you have various forms of newbie support, leave empty if there's
no newbie support.
"NEWBIE SUPPORT" "Newbie Channel", "Newbie Helpers", "Newbie Hints", "Newbie Tutorial".
Can be used multiple times if you have various forms of newbie support,
leave empty if there's no newbie support.
"NEWBIE SUPPORT" "OOC Channel", "Newbie Helpers", "Hint System", "MUD School". Can be used
multiple times if you have various forms of newbie support, leave empty
if there's no newbie support.
One thing I don't see on this list that is very apparent as I browsed through random MUD listings over at TMC is "Newbie Friendly".
IMO, this is important information admins want to share and advertise as it draws in new players. I don't particularly like the terminology though. Maybe something like "New Player Training Area" or similar along those lines.
Thoughts?
One thing to keep in mind is that the name of the field and its presentation on the crawler site are separate issues. We could call the field "newbie friendly", and crawlers could display it using another name.
Also, newbie friendliness is a bigger concept than just having a training area. For instance, I can imagine a MUD that's very newbie friendly, but without any explicit training area.
I think it's important to identify exactly what we're trying to say here. I imagine that many MUDs will not advertise themselves as being "unfriendly" to newbies. The presence of newbie training (be it through a tutorial, training area, tip system, etc.) is at least an objective measure.
Maybe the field could be about what kind of help is available. Something like:
Help Available: any combination of:
tutorial, training area, in-game help files, tip system, help chat channels, "newbie-dedicated staff" (don't like the wording), …