Is the influx of new players, in your opinion, good or bad? Here's my take:

[Clockworkkiller]

I remember when I fist joined crpg, I was wrecking tincans with my wood stick, bunch of scrubs, so MLG pro, chambers fientz xxx 360nosc0pezxxxxx legit

[Vodner]

Dying constantly because you don't know how to play well is one thing. The game wouldn't be worth playing if you could just jump in and be good without any practice. I'm against making any concessions for new players wrt. this.

Dying because you are physically incapable of doing reasonable damage to enemies is quite another thing. It's a bullshit arbitrary hurdle that players have to leap before they can get into the real game, after which they are still going to get slaughtered because they don't know how to play.

[Dooz]

good for the game, bad for the newcomers

[WITCHCRAFT]

New players, you say?

visitors can't see pics , please register or login


But really, if even a few new players stay I will be happy. Can't have a fun game community if it's stagnant and slowly losing numbers!

[Eugen]

People, retire more. Join the peasant army!!!  The max lvl 20 Server needs some population!! 

Just retired myself yesterday ... and I admit ... being one of two peasants on battlefield ... is just really feeling stupid. But on the upside, it did not last full hour to get level 10 and then things start to become somwhat reasonable.

Low level server is there, but most of the time empty. Maybe some bots?

[njames89]

If the low level server were on NA i think it would get more use. I see a boatload of peasants these days in NA.

[Rico]

The influx of new people is good even if we only retain a small % of them.

What would be nice is if new players were not insulted or given mass trolol answers when they ask a newbie question ^^

I love asking back: How to install the game?

[Rico]

The game isn't easy to get started with, at level 1 you're useless in terms of speed, damage output and resilience to damage, and even the worst regular players here (like me) could shit on 95% of your average native player. Add all that together and it's a tough game to start with, and if you're ego can't handle being fucked in every encounter for a few levels then you'll likely quit.

It's a bit like a selection process. cRPG is hardcore or die, so there is always a high level of competition that makes it worth playing.

(click to show/hide)

But of course you can take breaks. I never really got rusty. Once you know how to do melee and shoot, the shit's in your blood forever.