(01-10-2020, 04:46 AM)Ry Vor Wrote: Game (New Decade Steel) is created on the forum.
Creating that, I noted another game with five new comers trying to start. We have to find the disconnect between signing up, getting on the forum, and joining a game.
The disconnect is no mystery. It is the initial email they receive after joining that directs them on how to start a duel. It says nothing about how to get into a game. So they follow the instructions, they go to the game queue as per the directions. Maybe they find the tutorial button. They are shown how to create a duel but nowhere does it teach them how to get on the boards or how to get into a game.
So they find themselves in the game queue, maybe they play the tutorial because since it is a big old button even though the email doesn't tell them to do even that, and then they say now what? They keep watching the game queue for something to "Show Up". Some enterprising new player decides to create a game to get started. Creates a broken game that has a 72-minute turn timer on it because on the landing page he learned there is a 72-hour turn clock.
Other new players who are also lost join the game because they don't know better and get stuck in the same cycle, and no one reaches out to them directly in a timely fashion to correct them.
All those players came in over a 3 day period off a Facebook ad I had running. I had to turn it off until this gets fixed. Those five players are gone. They have had a bad experience.
It is the exact same problem Brek and I had when we started. They find their way to the game queue and have absolutely no idea where to go from there.
Once we get the process fixed I can turn it back on. But I have mentioned the problem several times. So the disconnect is no real mystery.
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