The ideal Rifts adventure

[Vrykolas2k]

Flaming death.
A psychotic robot helicopter door-gunner who has been programmed to say lines from Vietnam movies.
Strippers.
Assassins who pretend to be strippers.
Girl scouts pretending to be assassins pretending to be strippers.

[Larsen]

1. catchy come-backs not unlike web-head says.

2.don't overpower your players in the first session and kill them.

3.never make a strict plot and never get to attached to a npc that you rolled up.

4. make sure your characters have a valid reason for being where they are when the game starts and try not to use their background as plot too often it gets boring.

5. always have pizza and/ or chinese takeout on hand during a game

6. make sure its fun!!!!! < most important rule there is.

7. talk to the maker and try to bring in the 8 ft afro character at some point

[Bood Samel]

A good vehical fight scene ala mad max.
Something epic and horrific.
Punny references to the pre-rifts world.
Lots of shooting.

[Nightbreed]

It all depends on what your players like. I say start them out as coalition troops. Make them part of one of the long range patrol squads. That can be fun. Have them get in a firefight with the enemy (FoM, Splugs, renegade d-bees, etc.) Then take it from there. It's lots of fun. Makes you feel like the colonial marines in Aliens.

[RoadWarriorFWaNK]

run a power game where everyone can blow the crap out of everything. Run a couple sessions of that until they either die or get bored. Once that's out of their system, run a real game.
it never fails that a new rifts player is going to gravitate to the most powerful gear, spells, psionics, and character classes they can find. If you start them off playing a normal game, they spend most of their time going through the books going "OOH, I WANT THAT GUN!!" or "HEY CAN I HAVE ONE OF THESE POWER ARMORS??!?!" or "HEY WHEN CAN WE GO SHOPPING SO I CAN GET SOME NARUNI GUNS?" or "MAN I SHOULD HAVE PLAYED A (character more powerful than their current one)!!!"

[Sir Blayse]

run a power game where everyone can blow the crap out of everything. Run a couple sessions of that until they either die or get bored. Once that's out of their system, run a real game.
it never fails that a new rifts player is going to gravitate to the most powerful gear, spells, psionics, and character classes they can find. If you start them off playing a normal game, they spend most of their time going through the books going "OOH, I WANT THAT GUN!!" or "HEY CAN I HAVE ONE OF THESE POWER ARMORS??!?!" or "HEY WHEN CAN WE GO SHOPPING SO I CAN GET SOME NARUNI GUNS?" or "MAN I SHOULD HAVE PLAYED A (character more powerful than their current one)!!!"

Wow, that sounds like one of my guys who always wanted to create his own class, race, and weapons. Never normal stuff either- some of it outrageous.

[Killer Cyborg]

I'm about to start a new Rifts campaing and my head is just swimming with ideas (not unlike a rifter's realities). So I can get some of these ideas into focus, I ask you all: What elements do you think should be in an ideal introductory Rifts adventure?

It's up to your players.
I'd suggest starting them off low-powered and having them work their way up. By Low powered, I mean stuff from the main book... and the low-end stuff at that.
It may give them a perspective on things that they wouldn't get if they start off as truly powerful characters.

Also, I think that Rifts should be deadly.
It should make the characters really think things through before acting, otherwise they may have to roll up a new character.