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Minutes on new account

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:46 am
by SumBum
A friend just started playing and says her account time limit was at 200 minutes. Is that a bug or part of new accounts? It's been too long since I started a new account for me to remember.

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:54 am
by Snickie
When I started, my account the first day only had 155 minutes.
The next day they were 2000.
I wouldn't worry.

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:01 am
by SumBum
OK, must just be a new account thing then. Thanks. :) She's panicking because she's already down to 60 minutes, though.

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:13 am
by Snickie
I remember I panicked when I ran all out of minutes. I hardly dared to touch the game the next day. :lol:

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:40 am
by EchoMan
New players get only 200 minutes their first day. This is a bug and should be fixed.

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:48 am
by Piscator
Since we're not going back to the 200 minute system anyway, we should probably disable the countdown or turn it into a "you played xy minutes today" counter. (Reminding you to eat and drink when you reach the 500 ^^.)

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:31 pm
by SumBum
I was going to comment that a player's first day is probably the worst day to have a limit. For us old-timers, making 10 game minutes last 5 hours is no big deal. My friend spawned only one char and burned half her minutes just poking around the interface, reading notes, and constantly refreshing the events. She was so thrilled with her first moments in Cantr that she wanted to keep playing but ran out of time. Some new players could get very frustrated over that and have a bad first impression.

I know it's only one day, but that's also when someone is likely to be the most excited and interested in learning everything and being click-happy.

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:36 pm
by EchoMan
This has been fixed and is now live. Thanks *ono for taking care of business. :)

Re: Minutes on new account

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:41 pm
by SumBum
Yay! Thanks, *ono! Maybe this will help retain some new players.