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« on: January 08, 2016, 10:41:29 am »
I am still a novice. I have had fine matches with fellow novices as captains and less fine ones. The hardest part, assuming no one is conducting themselves in a morally repugnant way, was simply waiting round for ages in the matchmaker and the case of uncommunicative shipmates (especially the pilot, of course). Losing didn't really matter to me if everyone was communicating and trying; after all, we were all newbies. (If my experience is representative, it's just over 50/50 anyway, not an endless morass of defeat.)
I'm very confused by the post by Maximilian Jazzhand about novice matches not being default for new players. I am pretty sure my game defaulted to novice matches, although I won't refuse to consider the possibility that I ticked a box myself. (Actually, I don't know what's meant by "server browse" at all, which means I've completely missed something!)