Please consider moving the five strategy puzzles with locked bases by Sneh from player puzzles to tutorials or challenge puzzles. They are here: http://eterna.cmu.edu/eterna_page.php...
These five puzzles are just like tutorials in nature, and are of a far lower difficulty than most of the challenge puzzles. Two of these puzzles in particular explain and teach how to solve the two most-asked about challenge puzzles by new players in chat. But new players don't see these because they are buried in the player puzzles section, which new players are suggested to stay away from until the challenges are completed. Yet, again, these 5 puzzles are designed specifically to help new players tackle the challenge puzzles. So to me it makes sense to add them to the tutorials or at least to the challenge puzzles, but seems counterproductive to leave them in the player puzzles where they are currently only seen by those who have already learned the tactics those puzzles were designed to teach.
Thanks!
These five puzzles are just like tutorials in nature, and are of a far lower difficulty than most of the challenge puzzles. Two of these puzzles in particular explain and teach how to solve the two most-asked about challenge puzzles by new players in chat. But new players don't see these because they are buried in the player puzzles section, which new players are suggested to stay away from until the challenges are completed. Yet, again, these 5 puzzles are designed specifically to help new players tackle the challenge puzzles. So to me it makes sense to add them to the tutorials or at least to the challenge puzzles, but seems counterproductive to leave them in the player puzzles where they are currently only seen by those who have already learned the tactics those puzzles were designed to teach.
Thanks!
Posted 7 years ago
Jeehyung Lee, Alum
Actually those puzzles were in fact presented at the very early stage of challenge puzzles before.
But then we got comments that those puzzles were focusing too much on very specific loop boosting problem that could be too much for new players and moved them to player puzzles and it actually helped our new player retention rate a bit.
Maybe we can bring back the first 1,2 of the loop puzzles back to challenges page - but I'm not sure if bringing all them back as tutorials
But then we got comments that those puzzles were focusing too much on very specific loop boosting problem that could be too much for new players and moved them to player puzzles and it actually helped our new player retention rate a bit.
Maybe we can bring back the first 1,2 of the loop puzzles back to challenges page - but I'm not sure if bringing all them back as tutorials
Maybe we can bring back the first 1,2 of the loop puzzles back to challenges page - but I'm not sure if bringing all them back as tutorialsYes, at least that way it is a little more likely that people will come across these small, guidance puzzles before running into their larger counterparts
