Another NUB idea (in General)

I was thinking about the NUB. My idea (and excuse me if its been mentioned before) is that during the 'newbie' time frame people can retrain w/o cost. Nothing more. This allows players to try whatever strategy they wish and explore the game mechanics as much as they wish w/o the perception of a totally unfair advantage. While its true that players late into this phase could configure their minions to combat particular players this would only indicate a growing grasp of the game mechanics and won't last forever. There is no direct need for exp or monetary bonuses if the cost to explore the game is reduced for new players.

Thoughts?

sure, we should beef up the NUB, cause 150% isnt good enough as it is :S

I think his idea is for the free retraining to be the only bonus, it's a decent enough idea but will hardly meet Jon's aims of giving the new user a realistic shot at getting to the top.