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macmacnick:
I'll be hosting some novice matches when I get back to the west coast and my desktop. (On vacation on the east coast right now)

Tanya Phenole:
I miss playing in novice matches, where no knowledge about strategy/mechanics, but only will to win helped to win with half-AI crews =)

Anyway, when I was showing the game to person who is very new, it was difficult to him to find novice match.

For an average player who tries to enter the game, it is much better to play with expierenced crew to pick up things quickly. Unfortunately, as a player with some expierence, I sometimes don't have mood and patience to explain people how game works. Also, a lot of new players accept help as "GTFO, I know what to do" (been there on my beginning too).

That is just a nature of public matches. We have to live with it  :-*

RearAdmiralZill:
Given that I never had the option of novice matches when I started, I honestly don't know if they are doing anything more for people then when they weren't here. I tend to just hear of "horror stories" from the novice games, and I'm sure it's a safe bet some people have left Guns having only seen the novice games. I don't think locking matches like this will have the desired effect.

HamsterIV:
When I first started there were no novice matches either, but there were matches without Zill in them.  That was my safe space to learn and experiment. It is very hard to learn what you are doing wrong when you die 20 secconds into an encounter from a perfectly timed gat morter combo. Even if you are doing something right there is not enough time to get positive or negative feedback.

For new players I think they should crew with a veteran, observe how a ship is run then try and duplicate the vets actions as a captain in a beginner lobby. A while ago it was suggested that under level 3 pilots should be still allowed in the beginner lobbies as pilots, even if they were 3+ in other areas. It would allow for more  new captain experimentation time.

Squidslinger Gilder:
Yeah I've always heard more horror stories of novice matches than I have good stories. They are the places where dual LF Pyras are born and where everyone is a powder monkey.

Course that is how it is in MMOs. Everyone wants to be the DPS class, not the healer or tank. In GOIO you can consider the pilot to be the tank, the engineers to be the healers, and gunner as DPS. Since gunners are the bane of existence, that forces healers to the forefront. But people generally don't like supportive roles so they quit.

Observing and learning, then copying vets sounds great in theory but most of the time newbies come in and try to tell you how to run your ship. Had far too many with sub 50 matches thinking they were kings of the air vs someone who is over 3000.

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