Full Petition to bring back Arrival Hall

**Seoin** · Sep 7th, 2011, 10:55:24

/sign

I never got to go there but I don't see why they should remove the arrival hall (or any content) from the game.

Even if they wanted the island to be their new showcase starter experience, they could have kept it accessible from somewhere in RK to discover, or given you some kind of choice during character creation where you were sent, or if it didn't take too long let people go through the arrival hall AND the island, even if the arrival hall was just a quick walking through, and let you get some idea of where you were going on that ship. Maybe even let you get a tiny hint of the danger of the invasion in dialogue or with a glimpse through a window.

Just don't think they should have removed it, it's not like it was horribly broken was it? Or anything for them to be self conscious about. Storyline problems are easy enough to patch up am I right?

You could think of 1000 reasons they could want to cross an ocean before dropping peeps off at bor/rome/oa.

**Raggy** · Sep 7th, 2011, 11:27:40

Originally Posted by Seoin

or if it didn't take too long let people go through the arrival hall AND the island, even if the arrival hall was just a quick walking through, and let you get some idea of where you were going on that ship. Maybe even let you get a tiny hint of the danger of the invasion in dialogue or with a glimpse through a window.

That's exactly what happened. You arrived in the hall, spoke to some NPCs for some simple backstory, chose to either goto RK or the Shadowlands and if you went to RK, entered a shuttle.

The shuttle would then be shot down by Aliens and you land on the island.

**Ravenneyez** · Sep 7th, 2011, 12:50:46

/signed
Bring Back Arrival Hall!

**Mekatronik** · Sep 9th, 2011, 21:24:04

/signed
omg i remember Arrival Hall and was like wtf??when the ship went down and i had to swim to the island!!

**Keex** · Sep 12th, 2011, 15:36:39

Originally Posted by Raggy

That's exactly what happened. You arrived in the hall, spoke to some NPCs for some simple backstory, chose to either goto RK or the Shadowlands and if you went to RK, entered a shuttle.

The shuttle would then be shot down by Aliens and you land on the island.

adding to this:

you even woke up in the crashed shuttle (only emergency lightning, kind of cool) and had to get out. you came out of the shuttle some way in the water behind where one starts off today. then you had to get to the shore after talking to a nurse.

**Aeliniyah** · Sep 12th, 2011, 16:36:48

Originally Posted by Keex

adding to this:

you even woke up in the crashed shuttle (only emergency lightning, kind of cool) and had to get out. you came out of the shuttle some way in the water behind where one starts off today. then you had to get to the shore after talking to a nurse.

And adding to this, the nurse automatically started the conversation with you, and told you what to do next. Instead of the current way when people just spawn on the beach and run left clueless.

I think i already signed this, but i'm willing to sign it again as many times as needed

**Phobose** · Sep 13th, 2011, 02:10:51

/signed
It would be great to see the AO lore getting some much needed attention, arrival hall gives new players motive for staying!

**Notcrattey** · Sep 24th, 2011, 02:35:51

Bump!

**xtasie** · Sep 24th, 2011, 07:08:34

Sign my name pl0x

**SoapTarder** · Oct 16th, 2011, 04:25:48

bump!

this petition needs more ~~cowbell~~ peeps names on it.

p.s. my names already on it. no need to add it again

**Protozo** · Oct 16th, 2011, 04:53:16

/sign

**AyyRawn** · Oct 16th, 2011, 04:57:16

I'm all for more options to revamp the starting experience with.
/signed

**Dreamcypher** · Oct 16th, 2011, 10:12:29

Not in it's old form.

Just like how once people started in backyards, once people crashed on rubi-ka in a ship. I kinda like that. Then a bunch of people started waking up on a beach running to the left.

I'd want a completely "new player experience". The old newbie island could be accessible as a relic, maybe somewhere close to the coast of peace or such or in some un-uploaded zone just like how backyards are still accessible. Same thing goes for the arrival hall, wouldn't mind seeing it return in some way... I missed out back in the day because I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd be playing this game for 2000+ hours... I just... ran right past the guys and feel I missed out on that. (Make new toon, run to Rubi-Ka portal, crash, rinse repeat.)

**Krattonomic** · Oct 16th, 2011, 15:16:05

you know I really liked the crashing onto the planet experience, if we could get something like that or something like being born in cyro chambers or something would be awesome

**AyyRawn** · Oct 17th, 2011, 08:23:04

Originally Posted by Krattonomic

being born in cyro chambers or something would be awesome

Reminded me of Global Agendas tutorial level, which, coincidentally felt very rebellious and anarchic as well.
Bringing it up for reference in case somebody wants to expand upon that idea :P

**Thecrow91** · Oct 18th, 2011, 04:42:30

/signed

They need all of the pathways to lead somewhere though, currently Clan and Omni are dead doorways from the old days

**Ilikedagunz2** · Oct 19th, 2011, 05:35:19

/signed

**Zwelgje** · Oct 19th, 2011, 10:35:32

Spotted an old clip of the starters area and forgot how it was like.

With a little bit tweaking this could fit back in there somewhere realy nice. Bumpididumpedy!

**Notcrattey** · Oct 20th, 2011, 19:36:12

Bamp

**Notcrattey** · Oct 30th, 2011, 02:13:02

Badump

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