There is an approach that I was told by a friend of mine for a WoW RP server they used to teach for newcomers.
Essentially, forgot any sort of idea regarding creating a new character from the ground up.
Basically, import a character you know personally inside and out. From a movie, game, book or whatever. Import them in everything but name and place them into Freelancer.
You can completely skip any sort of confusion and complications that comes with a new character from the ground up, because you already know how -that- character that you have picked will react to any situation the game throws at you. Once you have gotten accustomed to that, you can start tweaking the character bit by bit until it becomes an original creation.
When I was told this approach I was surprised that it isn't standard practice, really.
I am pretty certain one of our newcomer went with this suggestion and is basically running a more gritty Uncle Iroh in Space on the server. Sounds very odd when you state it like that, but within the roleplay environment, nobody will even guess that is the case unless you tell them.
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