Public Newcomer Helper Log Thread

[eyvind]

EDIT: Not happening:
<strike>I would like to give notice that I will be away from my duties until Friday of next week, October 9. I will be traveling and in all likelihood unable -- and unwilling -- to play Freelancer in the meantime.</strike>

On the issue Ventana brought up:

I have encountered a number of people expressing a want or will to buy and fly a battleship. I have never had to tell any of them where to buy their ships and it has never been specifically about the Rheinland Battleship. I doubt I talked to this person.

When someone contacts me about battleships, I explain the decision to them. I explain the applicable official faction rights and that capital ship captains often have high standards imposed on them, formally or not. I generally tell these people to talk to the official faction or factions in control of an NPC faction before they purchase the ship. I think this is a good idea for many reasons, most of which should be obvious enough.

That said, we have no control over people beyond that of influence by advice and suggestion. We are guides, answerers of questions, helpers of the confused and little else.

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