Consultation: new player onboarding, popup tutorials

[jammi]

Staff have recently been thinking a lot about how to onboard new players to Discovery, and making the whole server environment more accessible.

As well as work on demystifying the techcompat system, we're also looking at ways to make information more accessible about NPC groups and how IDs function.

One idea is to trigger a popup text window (similar to that used by /help) when a non-OF ID is mounted. This screen would provide a quick explanation of what the faction is and does, what a ZoI is, and the tech the ID is capable of using.

Doing this for every ID would be a fairly big job, so I thought it'd be prudent to open the idea of new player onboarding up to the community at large. Would this help? What should it look like? What information is most important to present?

If you have thoughts on this, or other things we could do to ease new players into the game and community, let us know here.

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