If you call that creative, then yes.darthalomus wrote: Wow the start where you bash someones creativeness in there post really lends weight to your following words?
I still do state that removing bigger players from the newbie channel would not help. Bigger players use the newbie channel too. A newbie helper player status could work, but unfortunately newbie channel is still needed for all size players.darthalomus wrote: Above you state that removing bigger players from the newb line won't be an effective way of helping to keep newbs but those are the very players who raised there hands on the line to let us all know they where a bunch of A#$hats which is not what newbs need to feel welcome to a game and as far as reconnect triggers make them illegal problem solved.
This is a complicated mud.
We tend to have quite a lot newbies who come in, play some supercool guild for amazing 1hour and start yelling on channels that the guild/race sucks and it needs to be changed because it was like this in LOTR or some other mud. Those guys usually are perfect examples for newbies who get shit flinged at them by the previously mentioned A#$hats (including me). I don't know why, but we get loads of these. Most of these newbies usually tend to take the slightest sarcasm or joke dead seriously which usually leads to even bigger bashing. (we've got dozens of good examples of this in past years)
Too many of the newcomers are seriously lacking the brain capacity to get out of the rat infested warehouse and find something to kill (that is where many get stuck, when the game itself no longer feeds you with easy expmonsters), that usually means that the game sucks for them and they have to prove it to everyone listening.
This is a hard game to start, and maybe the newbies should be made aware of it. You will NOT be born in the world of aegis with gold spoon in your ass. Neither you will not be guided through all the quests and such just by asking all the big players in game to do it.
In my opinion newcomers should be made aware that this might happen, this is not the easiest mud to start and the whole system is much more complicated than in many other games. If you do not like it, you can choose another game.
I am not against making newbies life easier, i am just against newbies who lack the intelligence to read or comprehend what they are told. If retarded incapable newbies could fly, icesus would be an airport. I can quarantee, those newbies who come out right, respect the actual hard work the wizards and players have gone through in creating/playing this game will get the answers & guidance needed.
This is a text based game, if you can't read, don't try.darthalomus wrote: Also I think the point is to help people have a better understanding of the language not shun them because they are trying to learn.