If a 1 1 1 joins my ship I usually quickly friend them to see how many matches they've played.
Tten I take it as my opportunity to welcome them them to guns of Icarus and take some time to teach them the basics of the game.
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I've had a lot of positive experiences with new players I've taught from scratch (starting with when to use mallet/spanner/extinguisher and when to hit which components with which weapon). Some of them picked up the game really quickly and after a couple of matches they played significantly better than many high level players I've flown with.
I think it's mostly about the attitude of the pilot/crew whether they can work with inexperienced crew members or not. If you just expect things to run smoothly and start yelling if they don't, neither you, nor your crew will have a pleasant time. I can work with roughly 80-90% of those powder monkeys and swabbies who happened to end up on my ship if I'm in the mood to teach.
The remaining players are those who either struggle with language barriers, paying attention or processing the information provided and are very well able to cause discomfort for me and my crew.
Still, at least for me, the positive experiences out-weight the negative ones by far. On a side note: I actually prefer playing with lvl 1 players over playing with lvl 2-3 player, as it's easier to teach people from scratch than breaking bad habits. Those players who've just bought the game and experience their first matches are usually interested and eager to learn. Hence they're often easier to teach and pick up stuff quicker than players who've already played a couple of matches on their own and think they had got a grasp for the game.
Regarding Sprayers initial suggestion: I don't think pestering new players with a forced to tutorial would do us any good. In their current state there's little to learn from the tutorials anyway as they don't even cover the very basics of the game. Once the tutorials are a bit more sophisticated I think some sort of "we strongly recommend to play the tutorial"-pop up at the first login might come in handy.