Better newbie experience, some tweaks...

I made a newbie and analyzed the newbie experience so it was best:
* gave them 250 food to start with
* made some messages clearer
* fixed three sloppy bugs: bad "too weak to explore" message, and "results" bar showing the training center, and training center sometimes changing arenas -_-;
* made the training sticks incredibly easy to beat which saddened me a lot
* I'm fairly confident the newbie experience is as good as it will get.

Made the members online counter on the front page more accurate and easier on the server. Now it counts all who have last logged in within 24 hours; so no reseting to 0 at midnight.

Made a tile set (with roads of course) for the left of the left of Silvamed.

It'll now say if someone is a mayor when looking at peoples' profiles.

After some testing, I can finally say the cpower requirement for exploring can be 3.25. No more, no less!

READ THIS:
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Hmm.. The game seems alot simpler for newbies now... Maybe they'll actually give the game a proper try now instead of quitting after 5 minuites...

Actually, I've noticed a lot of newbies are staying. This is pretty good since they seem to quit once they see that not many people are around. I mean thinking back to when we launched, (august 4th) a LOT has happened. We got tiles, a new and awesomely improved battle system, and I've tweaked so many things for them. You used to have to wait a day before exploring, now you train like 5 minutes in the training center and you're ready to go. We've got art for mobs practically everywhere (thanks to sledge wielder and a bit of Kelton too) and our forums actually look welcoming, and pro.

I'd say we're on the right track. I'm completely ready to dump $100 into advertising this beast in December, when I plan to release.

The games been going really well because although it's out of beta it's still improving and growing, the battle system is alot funner now (although Kid Cross doesn't agree).
This game has come so far with just you and some 'artists' who contributed images, this game has incredible potential and thats why I will stick with it until the game is very popular and then I'll look for another small game again like i've been doing until that booms... If in the future you have a team of people this game could be very incredible, i've followed other small games so I know what happens ^_^

lol i was in at the start of neopets, and that sukd compared to this. you actually DO stuff here!

Interesting, CJ. Wosheh did that too. Why leave?

They are fine on their own now, I like helping around a little bit, so I just finish the game and leave, sometimes I may have a sneaky check to see what they are doing in case they have any problems, I also like to watch games and websites grow ^_^ I don't completely know why I do it but it's nice...