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

[Highland Laddie]

By catering, babysitting and carebear type of gameplay your wont help the new players.

At the end of the day, it's all about creating a fun atmosphere for new players to stay and play it. There's nothing wrong or bad about helping folks get on their feet and feel some immersion into a system they are probably otherwise unfamiliar with.

I don't really see how I'd be doing them more of a service by sanction-lancing, or just flying up in a hostile vessel, pewing them to death, and then laughing about it afterwards and saying the rough equivalent of "quit whining and lean to pvp, newb!" While that kind of attitude may give some sense of accomplishment to the experienced vet, in reality, it's just being a prideful jackass.