Baby Pirates and New Players

[Basil Dreadflint]

Meeting new people and making new aquaintenances is part of what makes the game so much fun. But there has to be a limit to how much any one person can do for anyone else.

A lot of new players are terribly unprepared for what happens to them when they are dumped into PR the first time. The instructions say to kill these skellies, go see TIa, here's your compass, and good-bye. Nothing about crewing, guilds, friendships, or anything else in those regards.

It never hurts to give some guidance and advice, but it probably is not helpful to take them by the hand and lead them around. Part of the fun of the game is when they 'discover' something on their own. (Hawke, I just commented to you about that ingame yesterday.)

As far as friends go, I almost never accept random friend requests myself. And, if someone TP's to me without asking first, I tell them that it is impolite to do so. A second time, they are taken off the friends list without even being warned. We are only allowed so many friends. There are millions of pirates, and hundreads in a guild. The most often seen "HINT" when Teleporting is the one that says "Make friends wisely."

[BigJohn]

I try not to be cyncial when a 'noob' has just joined, as I was once a 'noob'. Not to say I am seasoned pirate now, but answering questions and helping them find chests on canjeros may seem like "I've done this before can't really be bothered, but must help as I was once helped."
Also there should be an 'accept' option if someone decides they want to TP to you. They could end being in middle of a fight and there pirate dies, or you die because your distracted. "Hey man, how are you?" or the "I really need your help right now!" whisper