Came up again last night. It's an attitude I find... almost insulting.
We're a rude bunch, if you can't handle it, don't play our game...
Being newbie friendly in my opinion isn't a bad thing. At the very basic: courtesy and helpfulness to new players goes a long way. Jumping into the game to find some insults and bad language can be off-putting, even if you do roll that way yourself, you might not grasp it's humor right off the bat.
I suggested last night that OOC became an optional channel rather than a default. The newbie channel serves for a new player and despite what I said earlier, players on that channel tend to know the rules and ARE helpful and courteous on the new player's channel. Maybe after level 5 or something a new player gets a 'You can now add OOC, a general channel which is non-PG, you might find foul language etc' or whatever.
On another newbie friendly note outside the realm of courtesy, a newbie tutorial is badly needed to ease new players into the game. It should be optional of course, but a lot of people like to have their hands held through those first steps.
In other news, Gav's original hound group is down to 2. I've added a Knight Templar to the mix too.
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A newbie tutorial would be infinitely helpful, but even something as incomplete as our current starting out page is quite overwhelming with some irrelevant information. It's something we all know we need, but really hard to define what is actually useful without spaming tons of text.
ReplyDeleteThat being said if we do manage to come up with something useful, whenever it gets to stuff like working with channels would be a good point for them to learn to ooc - on their own. I know ooc is a pretty common channel, and I sometimes tend to forget to add my newer characters to the wardens.
The wardens are generally really awesome when they are paying attention, but with the small playerbase it isn't always enough to find a warden that can be really helpful to some people.