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

[TLI-Inferno]

It is sad the area all new players start in is the area that is least friendly to new players.

When I was a new player, most liberty officials either ignored me or shot me. As I continued to play, I was always seeing new players being destroyed by navy officials who wouldn't bother to explain to these new players why exactly they were being killed. It was usually because they were carrying contraband, illegal equipment, or had an extra ID, unaware that this was against the rules.

Oddly enough, factions outside of liberty seem to be the most friendly. When I was a new player transporting out of bretonia, I was stopped by some corsairs. First they went about pirating me, as expected. But then I stayed to speak with them just for the fun of it, and they even gave me a commodity as a "good luck charm". Whenever I've had rep or contraband issues that I wasn't aware of while present in liberty space, I was immediately arrested and often destroyed. Whenever I had these issues anywhere else (while I was at a low level, and clearly a new player), I was usually informed that my guns were illegal, or that a commodity I'd beamed in from an NPC was illegal, and warned that if I continued to use them or didn't drop the commodity, I would probably be arrested or destroyed.

Shouldn't liberty be the most friendly to new players, since players start in liberty? You'd think so, but no.