Official Soldat training server

[Monsteri]

As we all may know, we need newbies to keep Soldat alive. But unfortunately, most of Soldat players have played over three years, and it's very hard to get into game. Newbs get pwned all the time, and being pwned is not fun at all.
So, that they would keep playing at least for some time, there should be Somekind Official Soldat newbie server/Welcome to Soldat Official server.

The name doesn't need to be just like that, but anyways the server: You can join there for 3 weeks after installing Soldat.
That way you could meet there other players who are same skilled. So, it could be lots of nicer and smoother drop for newbies.
Agreed?

[Clawbug]

What would stop the veterans from just coming to the server and pwning the eff out from the newbies?

It would be nice to have servers with around the same skill level for the players, but unfortunately that isn't the case, and it can't be either really.

[DarkCrusade]

Some kind of practice mode was suggested before already. It was a discussion about some kind of mission mode where players were to aim for certain goals, and tutorials would help players getting the hang of the game. Not only would this make Soldat more attractive, but open new ways for mapping and scripting, which I'd enjoy really much, but I also see how much work this requires and don't really suggest this.

Another solution would be personal rankings which are bound to your account, but Portal got removed and I don't know whether we'll ever see it again. If Portal was to be added again, this'd be a great addition, though. You'd level up by killing players (bots wouldn't count), but the only benefit from this would be that there'd be a server option which'd hold players below a certain level off the server, or the other way round, so newbies would play against newbies and pros against pros.

I'm just toying with ideas, and I could throw out even more, but I don't see how this would change anything, as the current devs focus on fixing bugs instead of adding fancy new features (which is totally reasonable). Anyway, it's nice to see you actually care

[demoniac93]

Your idea is definitely possible to manifest, but unfortunately there's one detail that would ruin it; I'm talking about hackers, and camper/lamer whores, as in people who use spawning and whatnot to get more kills. It would create gap in the whole rank system.