Progression for Noobs

[Rickard Steiner]

I am personally of the opinion that no 'non-interaction' based measures will have anything save for a minimal effect on helping new players. When thinking back to both my own start plying Disco and watching others learn, one only really starts to cut one's RP teeth in interactions with other people around.

And there are people around. From experience, whenever I've PMed random people for help on occasion in-game, I have always had a really positive response. Yes, sometimes people are too busy to reply, but on the whole I don't think that people are unhelpful for the sake of being unhelpful. The shame of it is that a new person doesn't know this, especially if there are no specifically-labelled 'helpers' around.

I don't know if this could be implemented, and it would need its own rules to avoid being abused, but perhaps it would be an idea to have a clearly defined and advertised 'help' channel in-game, /h like we have /s or /f etc that sends a message server-wide, then willing people can respond via PM.

I agree that PvP (and often the circumstances leading up to it) can leave a bad impression, and I have no answer to the difference in PvP skill other than to go easy on new players; I don't understand how one could balance a weapon for a new player when all weapons are available to all players.

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