Welcome, New Players! (or Welcome Back, Old Players!)

[CoreyTheCh8t]

Hello, everybody.

So... My story. I played Cantr for a year or two and loved every moment of it, but eventually my interest began fading and I let my characters die. It's been around a year now that I've been away from the game, but today I decided that I'd like to try playing again. Cantr is like no other game I've ever experienced before, and I've missed that deep connection to my characters. So I'm back, at least for now.

Some of you may have run into my characters in the past, and I hope that some of you will run into me in the present. I was a forum lurker back then, by the way, but this is my first time actually posting anything. Hooraaaay.

[Voltenion]

Welcome back. It seems the big green does call everyone back when he feels like it Anyway, welcome back and if you still remember it, feel free to post your old acount's charracter's list. I'm sure some of the old who are still arround will recognise someone...And maybe I've read on a note something about one of your charries...or two. lol

[CoreyTheCh8t]

I remember most of them. The best, at least. And a few managed to get fairly well-established, so we'll see. Thanks for the welcome, Voltenion.

[BDubya]

Hello I am new here and I got a question, is there any way I can stop animals from killing me if I am born into a location where they kill you really fast?

[trexdino]

Hide inside, get a shield, healing food, or leave.

Welcome to the game anyways.

[BDubya]

Hide inside where? There were no buildings, I left to another location, but was hungry and tried to gather food but died from a boar attack. I almost feel like the cantr staff did that on purpose and they are somewhere right now laughing about it.

[sanchez]

My first char was also killed by animals in short time. But I'm glad I stayed to spawn another. Keep trying, it's really rare to start in an unpopulated place. Do look for help from others, and try to find healing foods, just in case.

[BDubya]

I did find healing food, but I died before I could gather any of it. I'm not giving up and 4 of my characters are in relatively safe areas, but two of my characters died because of animal attacks. Why do you let people be born in such areas?

[sanchez]

It's not typical. Spawns for new players most often end up in cities. Recently there was some work going on with the spawning code, and all I can imagine is that you've been unlucky.

[ceselb]

The spawning algorithm is semi-random. It gives spawns relative to populations size and at a lower priority, tries to get new chars as far away from others as possible.
It takes two people at a location to generate spawns and such a low number almost always generates fairly few. If you were alone, then people did pass recently. There's some lag from assigning a possible location to the actual spawning, so they may be gone by that time.

We can't make a judgement about where it's safe to be spawned. Say that place was a frontier town and had the wish and means to protect newspawns. There's no direct human intervention in the process, as we frankly don't have the staff to do so even if we wished.

If that place is truly too dangerous, everyone is sure to be dead soon and no more spawns will come there. Basically your only chance in a situation like that is to keep walking until you either starve or find someplace safe. Historically there's been animals on roads as well, so you were dead either way. Now you're safe on the roads and have 20 days before you die of starvation.

I'm sorry you feel that way, but changing it isn't practically possible. It's actually a very good system if you're prepared to colonize a new island. Try spawning more chars before that one dies, or you risk getting one there again, since it's far from your others.

[BDubya]

I thought people were born when a man loves a woman...

[sanchez]

Cantrians are a bit more advanced. Plus they get stronger with age. Enjoy.

[IrishGuy]

hi all, Im new here <No>

i was just wondering other than the wiki articles about your first day, the rules etc is there anything else helpful to read?

i still haven't had my account approved but i like to be prepared

the newspawns guide in the web zine looks great but its only one page and i cant find the whole thing?

Cheers!

[Piscator]

You can't find it because there are no other pages yet.

If you like more infomation about the game, I'd suggest you visit the IRC channel. There's usually someone helpful around.

Welcome to the game.

[Darkle-ish]

Welcome IrishGuy.

I guess since I'm here I should formally announce that I'm back, if anyone really cares.