7 DON'Ts of a newbie.

[sasapinjic]

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.

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.

Not everyone has to do something to help noobs all the time, but it would be great if some vets and devs stopped doing everything in their power to make noobs as miserable as possible with the following:

-"I should be able to win a 5 vs 1 against 5 noobs"

-"get gud"

-"you cant use numbers/caps to compensate or I'll bully you until submit"

-"you have to obey my lore-breaking commands because I's more official than you and I have our common IRP enemy on skype"

-"you cant do this and you cant do that, not because game mechanics or rules, but because some pros will screw you over if you step on their turf"

It's also mind-boggling how little (with little I mean NOTHING) the dev team does to make it easier to teach noobs lore and game mechanics. Even if you saw noobs as sub-human scum, the superimportant supervets would benefit from that because it keeps noobs in their meddlesome subhuman state less long.

Over the years I've brought this up again and again, I've written bar rumors, ingame help systems, improved server messages, history items.

All it required for devs to do was literally a copy-paste job, or at least say what could be improved if it wasnt good enough.

But they did: Squat.

I wrote more which I think needs to be said, and needed to be said and done years ago, but decided against it because it'll only upset some people into using it as a pretext to ban me again, and it's really more than too late to do anything anymore anyway.

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