Bot for Newbies on #AG. We need a pro to write IT !!!!!

[MeTonaTOR]

So do anyone care about this?  what about doing something?

I think all we need to do is making a community with a private board and we can start to make threads

Anyone in? I think we need 2-3 players who can maintain the base english text and 1-1 player who will translate it into his/her language.

DOS sounds like a decent idea for private forum.
And i am in

[Tomi]

Wow, we are 2 already

[zippeurfou]

Berria or whoever is caring about please give me the spec I have 3 h to kill today which should be enough for it.

[Tomi]

I posted a thread in DOS already, please take a look at it

[Tomi]

I am working on a tutorial handbook for new players. Who are willing to translate that text into his/her own language? (30 minutes of work).

In my opinion there should be made a subforum for this project (like the subforum of the promotion project) and there we could make topics like "Newbie guide book - English", "Newbie guide book - Deutsch", etc. Depending on the flag of the player in #AG the player would get a message on his/her own language with a link to the proper topic. In the subforum the text of the "guide book" could be maintain easily by the team of the moderators of that subforum. What do you think?

Btw in parallel the development of the bot could be started if you are up to that Zexorz

[Mega`Adnan]

I will be pro in next 3.5 years.

[zippeurfou]

Bot is called HelloBot. If you want a different message or more please feel free to ask.
Edit: There was an issue with a module. Should be fixed now. Please let me know if you see anything.

[avirex]

I am working on a tutorial handbook for new players. Who are willing to translate that text into his/her own language? (30 minutes of work).

In my opinion there should be made a subforum for this project (like the subforum of the promotion project) and there we could make topics like "Newbie guide book - English", "Newbie guide book - Deutsch", etc. Depending on the flag of the player in #AG the player would get a message on his/her own language with a link to the proper topic. In the subforum the text of the "guide book" could be maintain easily by the team of the moderators of that subforum. What do you think?

Btw in parallel the development of the bot could be started if you are up to that Zexorz

whats going on with this project??   

I think TomI is right, there should be another sub-forum made dedicated to nubs...

so far we have at the top
"General Discussion"
"Tech Support"
"Promotion Project"

the promotion project is pretty much dead it seems, but i would not suggest to remove it, maybe at some point in time some wormers will get a second wind at promoting the game again... it would be nice!!

but i think TUS really needs a sub-forum dedicated to the newbs, and being at the top of the forums would be ideal, being if your a newb, this site could be very overwhelming.

so i suggest it goes something like this.
"General Discussion"
"New to worms? click here for help" (or something similar... something direct, and newb friendly)
"Tech Support"
"Promotion Project"

we really need to start being more proactive towards helping the newbs, the newbs are W:A's future... without getting new players to the game, it will eventually die, i would say that a newb friendly sub-forum is equally as important, if not more important as the promotion project sub-forum.

after we get this sub-forum, im sure everyone can pitch in with things to help the newbs.. people will help translate, maybe others can make .GIF tutorials, maybe others will make a thread dedicated to important links the newbs should know. etc.

after the sub-forum is made, i would suggest to have a MOD of that sub-forum, and have very strict rules in that sub-forum, (absolutely no spam, or clutter of any kind) the newb friendly sub-forum has to remain neat, direct, and simple at all times... its a place strictly for newbs, not for anybody else (unless they would be there to help)

i am volunteering my time and efforts to assume responsibility of MOD in the newb sub-forum.  i doubt that i will be given the position, and that's fine... just letting it be known i am an option :p

[Tomi]

Well, the tutorial is kind of ready.. maybe 1 or 2 topics are missing, but that will be noticed by newbies if we can send them the link. Anyway it's here: https://www.tus-wa.com/forums/dos-help/newbie-guide-book-26874/

Right now I guess zippeurfou is trying to make the bot working. It is the HelloBot in #ag.

[zippeurfou]

I am also logging everything that happen in #ag.
I can implement commands to help you search for user/message/action.. Anything you wish (like the old !seen).
If you wish a feature just ask.

[Hussar]

I dont see any informations when i loggin in.
How ur bot works Fada?


EDIT.

I dont see any informations whn i loggin in.
How ur bot works Fada?

It gives information to new nicks.

Awesome, gonna check.

[rU`]

I dont see any informations whn i loggin in.
How ur bot works Fada?

It gives information to new nicks.

[avirex]

its great.. very nice.. but this is just a one time thing for new players/new nicks??

they can not access this information again, unless they change nick??

i think TUS should also have a spot to help the newbs... the newbs are w:a future! no newbs, no w:a!

[zippeurfou]

@Avi: I am not found of spamming new nick several time because I don't want it to be too intrusive. However, if you were to have a new player forum with nice guide I could just guide them there.

[Tomi]

As I know the bot is running for a week right now.

I checked the number  of views of the tutorial topic on 19th May, then it was 109. Today it was 172, so right now the topic was seen 63 times in a week. More than half of these views were made by people who doesn't have tus account or wasn't logged in.

It's not a bad result I guess, however I am sure it could be improved if we would send the link more than once. Especially, because I guess nobody really knows how to find that topic, a beginner is fully chanceless. In my opinion if we join #AG via the game then it's not annoying at all to get a link everytime. Fada, you can easily differentiate people who are in #AG via snoopers and who are using the game. (Btw for snooper users it would be really annoying to get the message everytime in my opinion.)

And is the topic useful? Yes, I would say. Because I could easily give Ninja information about how to update the game or modify the graphics settings