Thinking of new players, though, they're ignorant because the tutorial completely omits anything on failstacking and enhancing beyond 'put a beginner blackstone in and tap'.

You also have to put yourself in the shoes of a new player who doesn't necessarily have everything needed to failstack efficiently beyond access to reblath. To really failstack efficiently you need tens of billions worth of items (at least), a raft of alts, and naders slots to store stacks, none of which a new player will have. In fact, on a new account, you will have one character slot and, until you do the nader quest, no way of transferring your current failstack. When you do get naders, that's still only 2 slots to swap stacks between.

It is very easy to say people aren't doing it right, but having just helped a new player from scratch to pen tuvala in about 2 weeks (whereas I can get full pen tuvala day 1 on season on my own account), there are a lot of barriers you forget about once you've grown your account to a state they no longer exist.  What, for example, do you do if you find yourself with 2 51+ stacks, no tet gear, and have no way to transfer them (other than take out your credit card). If I hadn't been there to advise exactly on how to move stacks around, enhance in a sequence to prevent being stuck with high stacks, and the best stacks for each enhance, etc., etc., it would have taken far longer since there's zero in-game guidance on it. Watching streamers hardcore enhance is of little value if you don't have access to the same tools they do, and a lot of resources are dangerously dated, or inaccurate.

It's another symptom of the failstacking thing having been originally intended as a partially-hidden system that was just meant to help prevent people getting really screwed on enhances. Instead, given the competitive nature of players and the market, it's a system you need Excel and a reasonably degree of probability math to succeed with, particularly given the chance for negative reinforcement (i.e. you can do a mathematically dumb enhance and get a pen blackstar - the observation a certain strategy appears to make money short or even medium-term does not guarantee it's a good strategy. Nor does a strategy losing billions short term necessarily make it a bad one).

Just like every lifeskill, it deserves it's own tutorial chain that covers things like efficiently building stacks, softcaps, hardcaps, and the value of stacks, even if it's jarring to the game lore, since if there's one thing you see turning new players off to the game it's the enhancing. And I'd really like to see Naders given 4 slots by default for new players, even it's a temporary 3-4 week boost.

Thinking of new players, though, they're ignorant because the tutorial completely omits anything on failstacking and enhancing beyond 'put a beginner blackstone in and tap'.

You also have to put yourself in the shoes of a new player who doesn't necessarily have everything needed to failstack efficiently beyond access to reblath. To really failstack efficiently you need tens of billions worth of items (at least), a raft of alts, and naders slots to store stacks, none of which a new player will have. In fact, on a new account, you will have one character slot and, until you do the nader quest, no way of transferring your current failstack. When you do get naders, that's still only 2 slots to swap stacks between.

It is very easy to say people aren't doing it right, but having just helped a new player from scratch to pen tuvala in about 2 weeks (whereas I can get full pen tuvala day 1 on season on my own account), there are a lot of barriers you forget about once you've grown your account to a state they no longer exist.  What, for example, do you do if you find yourself with 2 51+ stacks, no tet gear, and have no way to transfer them (other than take out your credit card). If I hadn't been there to advise exactly on how to move stacks around, enhance in a sequence to prevent being stuck with high stacks, and the best stacks for each enhance, etc., etc., it would have taken far longer since there's zero in-game guidance on it. Watching streamers hardcore enhance is of little value if you don't have access to the same tools they do, and a lot of resources are dangerously dated, or inaccurate.

It's another symptom of the failstacking thing having been originally intended as a partially-hidden system that was just meant to help prevent people getting really screwed on enhances. Instead, given the competitive nature of players and the market, it's a system you need Excel and a reasonably degree of probability math to succeed with, particularly given the chance for negative reinforcement (i.e. you can do a mathematically dumb enhance and get a pen blackstar - the observation a certain strategy appears to make money short or even medium-term does not guarantee it's a good strategy. Nor does a strategy losing billions short term necessarily make it a bad one).

Just like every lifeskill, it deserves it's own tutorial chain that covers things like efficiently building stacks, softcaps, hardcaps, and the value of stacks, even if it's jarring to the game lore, since if there's one thing you see turning new players off to the game it's the enhancing. And I'd really like to see Naders given 4 slots by default for new players, even it's a temporary 3-4 week boost.