Game website very unfriendly for new players.

    Hi, so I tried to post this in the Suggestions forum but every time I click on it the forum automatically logs me out of my account (except that it doesn't on any other forum for OGame, I can click back to leave the Suggestions page and then magically I'm logged in again).


    So, here's my issue:


    I just spent about two weeks playing on the Fenrir universe/server. Today I learned that server is a "DiDF" server, defense to debris fields (I figured it out when I asked another player why they were raiding a planet of mine that had 0 resources on it at the time). My goal was to run a miner build until the late game and then turtle down, finding out the server was DiDF was a disappointment cause I don't really want to play with those conditions. I told my alliance mates, and they too had no clue it was DiDF or even what that was.


    It's no surprise we didn't know. Veteran players might know every inch of this game, but for new players, there is precious little information given when you create a planet on a universe for the first time.There's a little icon that will say if it's Balanced or Aggressive, but no information present as to what that might mean in the context of the game. I still have no clue which metrics the designers consider the qualifier for what makes a server balanced or aggressive. And certainly, unless you dig through the forums, there's no part of the sign up process that will tell you if a server is DiDF or x7 economy or whatever special attributes it has.


    My suggestion: Spend 5 minutes adding information to the main page/new player setup process. Take the info about universes that's on the forums and add it in a concise way with explanations for new players. It honestly doesn't have to be in major detail, but there's absolutely nothing there now and it's very unhelpful.


    Still trying to decide if I wanna bother signing up to a new universe or just move on and forget about OGame, honestly pretty pissed that I put two weeks into a server I didn't actually want to play on because of poor communication skills on the part of whoever made the new player process.

    @Bob Vob You are free to message me anytime! I actually have been in the process of making Ogame tutorial vids on Youtube. I have to redo three of them because I need to add in new information. You can also find me on Discord at Rj#0736. I can answer any and all questions.

    Well, until we had the current lobby version that information was present there before you signed up for uni. But somehow the GF thinks that this kind of information doesn't need to get communicated to a player before they start playing.

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    Bob, if you wish to try a differnt uni, come to Uriel, i can resource dump on your homeworld to get you started, and the alliance i am in was created to help new players learn, and non-new players have a mellow relaxed alliance.


    If you do, PM me (Faben Stormwolf) and i will send resources, apply to TMC The mellow couch and people will give advice and reply to any quistions you may have. Dont let 1 bad uni (bad for you maybe) ruin what can be a great game :)

    I agree. My situation when i first started a few weeks ago was I remember loving this game in college a long time ago. So I decided this would be fun to get back into. My intent during registration was to do a PvE server but I guess at some point I missed the very hidden details about the server I was signing up for being PvP. It could've been right in front of my face I just missed it during the initial excitement of remembering OGame and registering again. I didn't find out I was PvP until after getting attacked a few times on the 2nd day. I was royally ticked as I donated $30 for some DM to get my planet initialized. I just wish big things like that were blasted in front of your face as a new player during registration. No way was I going to lose my cool and deactivate my account after getting attacked quite often by a few certain players since I already invested/donated $30 for a F2P game, but the thought crossed my mind. I guess in the long run I don't regret it since what's there to do once you get your planet built up in a PvE server, but there may be people in my situation in the future who run into this; whether it's their own fault for not reading meticulously or not the information should be made more visible or there should be some kind of workflow during the registration that explicitly asks the user which type of server they want to join. Rather than listing servers and having the type of server it is displayed in a column. You know some sort of validation step that requires a few input of choices by the user.


    Another frustration I ran into was civil ships getting destroyed at my home planet. I would intuitively think civil ships would not be under attack, but then again I see why that's a bad assumption on my part. I just wish for this game you didn't have to read an uber-extensive wiki page to learn all the details and these tutorials were natively integrated into the main game page.