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Killing the community, one game at a time.
Alexor Huxley:
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--- Quote from: Alexor Huxley on February 14, 2015, 11:55:58 am ---
But again, I've only ever seen people freak on the forums, so. There's that.
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That is a rather dubious generalization. Perhaps you are only looking for the freaking out?
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Oh no, I didn't mean that that's all I see on the forums, I meant that I've only seen hostility toward noobs on the forums as opposed to in-game. To say it a different way, no matter how frustrated elites are in-game, they're almost always chums about it. I only ever experienced anti-new-player sentiment on the forum. Like looking at one surface and finding certain bacteria, and looking at another and finding different bacteria. It doesn't mean the latter species is all that exist on that surface, only that it's a new environmental factor that I hadn't noticed previously.
Make sense?
I think the more than educating new players on all the ins and outs of being a pro airship crewman, the community needs to find and accept a balance of player interest levels. I'm a full-time college student with an internship and two jobs. I understand it's a small community, and there are a lot of influential, highly skilled members here, but sometimes it feels a little like a religious conversion. Get good fast, or you're wasting our time in-game. Or, join our super awesome clan so you can one day be super good and compete with us - but I can't in good conscience sign up for something I won't be able to carry through on.
Now, I certainly won't stop playing, and this definitely doesn't apply to everyone here. To the contrary, as I said before, just a few very vocal individuals, but it's still a little jarring for new members visiting the forums.
Kamoba:
I actually find it funny to think these forums are considered jarring... They're the nicest community I've met and had the pleasure to natter with... Many... Oh so many forums are filled with members who make even our "most toxic" look like saints in comparison..
Richard LeMoon:
I see. Though, I have seen some pretty harsh anti'noob'ism in my time in the game. Most of those people don't last much longer once they start doing that. It may be that you don't see it in the game because so many people use crew form now just to avoid MM.
Then again, there is not a strong elitism sense in any part of the game. Most players seem willing to give new people at least one chance.
Squidslinger Gilder:
Yeah not really jarring. This place is rather tame. We maybe have a toxic member come through once a year. Toxic players just return to LoL or CoD before they bother with this game.
I don't hate noobs, just idiots and trolls or people not willing to listen to reason. Noobs can actually grow and learn and want to get better pending they are responsive and listen. Trouble is many of the vets have been burned by lots of bad ones. I don't want to bother teaching them anymore unless they show they are decent human beings. Heck I know CAs who got fed up with these sorts of people. They'd be kind and nice and the new player would treat them like dirt.
Then theres the idiots who sit there in lobby making horny possum calls and think its funny. Or in a game which requires voice chat, they'll have all sound off cranking out music full blast.
I'm very honest and up front with noobs. I'll take you on my ship and you'll have a blast, but you better: 1: communicate, 2: listen to instruction, 3: your gunner class does not exist unless I say it exists, and 4: like mines...oh and 5: if you harass females players, I'll make it my goal to see you either banned, or mined till rage quit.
Alexor Huxley:
I'll make myself a little more clear before bowing out since this obviously isn't a popular opinion:
I have encountered exactly two people who I would call jerks - or freshmen in high school without hobbies, it remains to be seen. These people rebutted pretty much every post I made for the first few weeks with "Lul, whatever noob, gonna go back to winning. PEACE!" These people made a noob feel unwelcome because the three numbers under my name seemed to invalidate my ideas. These are the elitists of whom I speak.
That's all. No need to enter elaborate explanation on why you're all awesome. You are. That's not what I'm disputing. Merely that some people who like winning more than having fun lurk in the community and are jerks to newcomers. It's simple.
G'night.
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