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To my way of thinking the term "Noob" is too all encompassing in the way you're using it and these players you describe fit into a lot of different categories.
When I started playing "Pirates" was my very first online game and I made plenty of mistakes simply because I was new to online gaming and didn't know any better. My first couple days in game were a real learning experience first couple weeks were mostly spent sorting out those mistakes made in those first couple days. For example I didn't understand the concept of rep stealing when I started. I thought I was actually helping those higher level players kill the bad guys. Finally dawned on me that a level 20+ player didn't need the help of a level 5. Also didn't know any better that to accept all those blind friend invites and it took a couple weeks to clean up the list and get rid of all the idiots I'd allowed to friend me. It was so bad that I couldn't even launch a ship without having a half dozen of these people TP on board and quickly get my ship sunk by shooting at everything in sight. This was before the days of boarding permissions. Took a couple days to figure out how to be invited into the crews of higher level players for some good loot and cannon XP. Accepting those blind invites always seemed to end up crewed on another low level newbies ship. Anyway this seems more to define the "Noob" Player someone who is new and simply doesn't know any better. As to those basic level players not all of them are new. I have two accounts one of them is basic. When I started out I only played as basic for about an hour before going unlimited. A lot of the troublemakers and griefers in game make their mischief on basic accounts I wouldn't classify them as Noobs
We didn't have revive when I started playing, so when a low level got knocked out they went to jail. I learned quickly not to tangle with Undead Gypsies until my pirate was big enough to handle them.
As to the immature players, first let me state that I'm an adult, I prefer to hang out with adult players and belong to adult guilds. Before anyone starts with the age discrimination nonsense. Let me say that I don't have a problem helping younger players so long as they are polite and treat me with respect. I didn't however come to this game to be a babysitter. I raised two of my own kids and didn't come here to babysit other peoples kids. I'm not saying that all younger people are bad or ill mannered there are some good ones in game and some of them act very mature. The immature ones however are the reason that I tend to hang out with mostly adults. Don't want immature acting people regardless of their age tagging along with me in game.
As to debating with the immature ones, if they cannot respond to a logical statement then I have better things to do with my time than get into a contest of hurling insults back and forth with someone on the internet. BTW I'm a former USMC Gunnery Sergeant and I can come up with some rather colorful insults, I doubt that Disney would approve of them.
As to players being labeled snobs? I recall a conversation I overheard on Abassa a couple years ago. Seems some low level basics were reffering to a level 40 which at the time was a mastered pirate as a snob. They were calling all level 40's snobs. Anyway their remarks got me to thinking about that as my first pirate was high level at the time. And I don't really see this as snobbery with high levels. Most of us are willing to help lower level and new players. However if a player is acting rudely we generally ignore them. We get hit with lots of those blind or "Run BY' friend invites and crew invites we tend to decline them. If someone doesn't have the courtesy to carry on a conversation with us, odds are we aren't going to accept a friend or crew invite from that person. This is not snobbery. We and I refer to all of us who play this game ARE NOT obligated to add people to our friend lists our guilds or our crews simply because they beg or demand it, We are also not obligated to revive or save them from higher level enemies. If we choose to do so it is an act of kindness and courtesy. Higher level players do tend to avoid the lower level and particularly low level basics not out of snobbery but simply because those are the players who tend to make the most pests of themselves. I think my first pirate was a level 27 before I actually carried on a conversation with a level 40 mastered pirate. Up til then all my attempts at conversation with mastered pirates had been ignored. That player ended up becoming one of my best friends in game and teaching me a lot about the game. Its all about the way you approach people in game.
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