Experiment successful. Discovery is not a good place for newbies.

[Lumik]

Well, it is easy for me to point at "Liberty" and say that the players there are lazy -as a Corsair i get to run into newbies 2 times a month and then i simply don't care to take my time and explain stuff for 30 min or more for each.

But if i had 3+ newbies a day they would simply eat up my "playing time" and i think that might be the case with players who would be very helpful normally, too - so you might pm "//dude, rule error here and there, bye" or simply hope that someone else takes a heart.
So i am not defending people who ignore newbies for whatever reason, newbies do need to feel welcome and integrated but i think it will be very very hard to change anything as there is quite some unfriendlyness and sub-communityism around ...aka "hatery and unfriendlyness is too cool to not do it"for too many players and as long as there is no sense of "we all play together for the greater fun for all" i think nothing will change

Edit: +1 to what Anaximander said

That is it also. Sometimes you are not in mood for doing helpdesk. Sorry but not.
I don´t fly in Liberty much, but in other houses, I´m saying to people in trains 3600+ cargo that they have Freelancer ID via personal chat. Some of them thank to me as they forgot to change ID. Some are surprised because they didn´t read FL ID limitations. Some of them not answer. But I helped in this at least to 15-25 players instead of reporting them for example in last months. And there were others like outcast gunship trying to pirate me with Recruit ID

But still, if I meet wrong IDed player for third time in two hours, I sometimes don´t have mood to explain them why they need another ID and which one should they use (very common question). Sorry, but sometimes I´m tired or want to relax and enjoy a fun.

And IFF? I don´t care in most cases. I estimate that every fifth player has wrong IFF (he don´t have any despite he has corporate ID, also most players in Liberty use Navy IFF despite they are traders etc.). And it is not easy to quickly explain IFF concept and how to fix it/change it to someone who really know nothing about it.

So to say - one can´t change the Disco and help all of the people if he don´t want sacrifice his fun being there. Why there is just few Angels (maybe one as somebody said)? Because it is not fun. And we all are here for fun.

But to say something positive in the end - hey, if every of us will try to help one person per day, just one, it will change Disco to better. Let´s try it

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