Seriously dude. Giving peeps free stuff helps in a lot of interactions? And I am against interactions. Oh gawd.
Are you in any faction? I helped a lot of new people, but not by giving them cash. Instead I tell them trade routes in game and make them play more. That promotes interactions and you tell i dont like interactions. Whatever is floating your boat.
I have seen a lot of people earn a lot and then just leave the game after a few weeks. Help is not JUST MONETARY HELP. Thats the worst kind of help according to me.
If you like giving ships and money, give 20/30 million, or buy him a mammoth fully equipped. Not more than that. I am not against giving stuff to people, you may take me jealous, but the point is, what do they do after that. Have you tried interacting with 5k carrying ore. Most of the time, you never get a reply, if they are not faction tagged ships.
Giving ships to factions, indirectly makes people join factions. Since the factions can provide them free ships on applying. And as far as I have seen on here, only tagged members provide the best interaction while on their traders. You can say all kind of things, but practically, that does no good, than just for the recieveing players releif that he got a new ship.
And I am not against new players getting ships. The ships I donated to IMG, they are distributed to new players. And I am happy about that. Because, they joined IMG and that their interaction quality will improve a lot. But if I had given them away to random newbies, they continue to stay in the same level of RP that they are in now, i.e, nil.
All I suggested, leads to good interactions, faction members dont need to give everything to their faction coffers(its not their duty, still I am in factions, wherein people donate to the faction when and where possible, if they are able to).
Your last point, irrelevant, and I dont even...nvm
