Narrative Campaign General Discussion?

[Vantha]

An idea I had a while ago (that would provide a practice opportunity to player) is to add some sort of "coach". It watches games and every now and then sends notifications to remind the player of something they forgot or could improve. For example: "Your wood production is struggling to meet demands while your storage is overflowing with stone. Move over some workers from the stone mines to the forest", "You have reached your current population capacity and can't train any more units, build more houses to increase it.", "A significant portion of your units is idle. Have them work at all times for maximum efficiency."

I believe this could really help players new to the RTS genre with the multitasking and all of the casual single players. I've heard from a number of new players that they found the game way too hard (and it was for me too when I first started playing).
It's not as hard to implement as it might seem, could be expanded on by the more competitive multiplayer community and even be made into a "challenge mode", similar to what @Lion.Kanzen suggested.

And, of course, it would also come in handy for the unguided sections in this tutorial campaign.

But let's keep this thread on-topic. I'll probably open a dedicated one once I get to it.

[Lion.Kanzen]

1 hour ago, Vantha said:

But let's keep this thread on-topic. I'll probably open a dedicated one once I get to it.

I already did it. I opened  it yesterday.

[Lion.Kanzen]

11 years ago.

A8 was 13 years ago...

They were already asking for a campaign.

I think this will be worth it.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Starcraft is not much different than AoE with the difficulty of the tutorial missions.

The first mission is just houses and a gas collector.

Then the  2nd mission is just found Jim Raynor (heroe) and  build a barrack train 10 marines.

By the way we need a reset scenario function Or play again the mission.

Edited January 15 by Lion.Kanzen

[Vantha]

Any ideas how to improve the current tutorial UI? (not only visually, but also functionally)

[Stan`]

I do miss gameplay messages like this one, bottom left above the minimap (the thumb)

Or these (the ? is always present, the other is a message)

[Vantha]

1 hour ago, Stan` said:

I do miss gameplay messages like this one, bottom left above the minimap (the thumb)

Or these (the ? is always present, the other is a message)

Can you elaborate? I can't tell from the screenshots what you mean.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

6 hours ago, Vantha said:

Any ideas how to improve the current tutorial UI? (not only visually, but also functionally)

Checkboxes for starters.  

[Stan`]

12 hours ago, Vantha said:

Can you elaborate? I can't tell from the screenshots what you mean.

At 2:32 when he tries to recruit a worker he gets a message on the left saying there is no more pop left 

Other events could trigger such messages.

 

[Vantha]

19 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Checkboxes for starters.  

Checkboxes... that do what? (So players can enter the tutorial from different levels of experience?)

[Classic-Burger]

16 hours ago, Vantha said:

Checkboxes... that do what? (So players can enter the tutorial from different levels of experience?)

It would be nice to be able to ignore the checkboxes for a while.

They can be annoying unless you know what to do.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

On 16/02/2025 at 7:06 AM, Vantha said:

Checkboxes... that do what? (So players can enter the tutorial from different levels of experience?)

Checkboxes next to the objectives of the scenario, etc.