If you guys really want to get rid of the "problem" of Novices, just get Muse to stop selling the game. Then there's no way a newbie can buy the game, skip the awful tutorials and/or have no other Novices to play and learn the basics with, then "ruin" the game for all you vets.
There's no problem with novices
playing the game and ruining it for
veterans; the problem is novices
piloting the ships when unprepared and unready and ruining the game for
everybody in the lobby. Damning his team to lose over and over again as he is bounced from side to side in a lobby and passively stacking the matches in the other team's favor...
Last night a guy named ChildishRambino was playing with me and his friend, who was absolutely new to the game: zero matches played. A fairly new captain himself, he's played with me before and knows I'm a good teacher when I have willing learners, and he dumped her into my lap / onto my ship in order for me to teach her the game. I asked if she played the tutorial. She, of course, did not, and admitted it, so I went over the basics with her and, lo and behold, she played all evening and did a
GREAT job (for a scrub, of course
). She freely admitted to being overwhelmed at the beginning because the game is something that needs to be learned; information must be shared, for everybody's benefit. I think, as a human being (and not just one who plays video games), it
IS the job of those who have experience (read: veterans) to pass on that knowledge to those who do not (read: nubs). To do otherwise is selfish and lazy.
We are a community; a community of gamers. We must do what is best for the community. What is best for the community? To prevent new players from piloting ships when they are not yet prepared to do so. I'll gladly sacrifice some newbie freedom for some lobby security. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6c3OTr6yA(excuse the video quality...)