We'd like to have one unique island for all races instead of four separate lands. The island would be larger than the current islands, and made of several ecosystems (forest, lake and jungle).

All the new players should spawn at the same place, in a camp and from here they could explore their surroundings and work towards reaching the mainland.

Note: once on the mainland you will not be able to go back on this island.

The island would be composed of several areas with different mobs and themes, each one corresponding to a different level. These areas are not regions but simple locations.
For example, the zone designed for levels 11-15 would be a town devastated by the Kitins during the great swarming; the zone designed for levels 16-20 would be the first experience with the Goo, complete with sick mobs; the highest zone (40+) would be populated by Kitins.

This new newbie island would also present a varied fauna with herbivores, predators, Kitins, mini-bosses and Bandits. The goal is to give an overview of the PvE interactions the game can offer.

2. Skills

A new player would own the four basic skills from the start, and wouldn't need to buy what he's lacking at the trainer anymore (using skill points). As a result, the "packs" window you get when creating a new character should change to allow you to specialise in one of the four skills, and so obtain more stanzas in one of them (as if you were choosing the same pack twice in the current system).

Near the main camp where new players would appear, there are small race and faction camps with merchants, skill specific missions and faction specific information.

3. Missions

We want to change the missions given by NPCs. The goal is to provide helpful missions with more explanations, which effectively guide the new player regarding skills (what to use with what skill, customising actions), training, and the basics of Atys life and background (mobs’ behaviour, Kitins, Bandits, Goo...).

As a result, they would be completely new and more of the “quest” type: the new player would have to finish a mission to have access to others. Through achieving the missions from a given camp, he would cross the whole land and learn more about the habits of each race (Fyros having a warrior culture, Zoraïs being more leaned towards magic, etc.).

At first, we plan on making the new player appear in a camp, run by the Rangers. The purpose of this place is to be a safe “core” around which the other small camps are arranged. Chiang, the chief of the camp, would give a brief introduction to this area, including the other homins here, what they teach, and where regions make up the zone.

He would also direct the newcomer to the other camps, and give a few missions once all the race missions have been achieved.

We want to build each racial camp on the same scheme, with a trainer specialised in the appropriate abilities, some merchants and a mission giver. Each one should propose about eight missions.
So, the Fyros camp would focus on combat, with a fighter trainer, merchants selling weapons, and combat missions. The Matis camp would have a crafter trainer, merchants selling armour, and craft missions; and so on.

The faction camps should function a bit differently. They should give a few missions only when all the missions of certain races have been done, grant fame and provide some information about the factions on Atys.

Among the missions’ rewards, there should be experience, dappers, and equipment such as weapons, armour and jewels. Those should be reward items specifically designed for the NPE with stats you can't obtain when crafting, and would have a name. For instance, an amp given by the Zoraï mission giver could be called “frost touch”.
Note: the look should be the same as the usual crafted items.

4. Chat

Along with this new NPE, we want to introduce a new chat: “Universe”. It should include every region of the mainland and the newbie island. You could have access to it from both the island and the mainland. The main purpose of this channel is to allow veterans to help new players more easily.