7 DON'Ts of a newbie.

[Jack_Henderson]

It's pointless to try and change noobs. They keep coming the way they were. Adapt to them, be prepared for them, change the vets by changing their expectations.

Also complete agreement.
But it comes with a suggestion: vets and in general every player that knows better could make more of an effort to try to be helpful towards inexperienced players.

I agree with Karst that some players will never fit in and they will leave sooner or later anyway. See them as NPCs, and you won't be disappointed. NPC-level influence is what they can have on your Disco experience - actually none if you do not allow for it.

However, years of working with newbies and training them, hundreds of times of explaining roleplay and of setting up correct ships have taught me that there are many new players who can learn the ropes quickly and who can become valuable, fully integrated members rather quickly. It takes guidance however.

And THAT's the job of veterans, of factions. I mean, realistically... if I had not been picked up by an IMG| while fighting Mollys who pirated my IMG-IDed, Lib-Navy-IFF-ed armorless Hegemonminer in Dublin after I shot their NPC GB patrol because it attacked me... I would have qualified as exactly that same category of noob and would likely have left at some point because the real learning process of "what Disco is like" only started after having been picked up and having been taken by the hand by vets.

We can do more, as veteran players, as factions with visibility, to transform the newbies into real-Disco players. That's what everybody should do.