Help for the help channel?

[StarOfAfrica2]

Can something be put in the MOTD or a post put somewhere to tell new players that the Help channel is for HELP?  Its getting almost as bad as 200 and range vox.

[Schaden]

Help channel was a good idea - except now you get a lot of two week wonders home from school who are amazed that they can actually call each other "gay" over and over and over for oh about two hours without any adults kicking their little arses out.

When they get bored with the whole "you're gay!!" ..."No you're gay!!!" then they start describing various sexual proclivities of the said gays......one has to wonder why they find the whole thing quite so fascinating....perhaps they'll develop a marvellous taste in clothes, show tunes and bijou restaurants in a few years and look back fondly on their AH experience where it all started.

I did try to help a few people who were actually using it for the intended purpose but the above side show together with the anxious queries of "Who needs a gunner?" ad bloody infinitum were making my eyes bleed so I've turned it off.

[BlueJ1]

Whoa! Theres a help channel !!!!! Where was this when I was a noob, oh wait, I still am.

[SFCHONDO]

I have tuned to CH 6 about three times to help people needing it. I was mostly just watermelon chat going on like it is on CH200. I told them it was help questions only, but most ignored it. Tried to help a few that wanted it, but was to hard with the nuggets just chatting away. I gave up on tuning to CH6.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Thats my point.  Those of us who are willing to spend part of our time in the MA to help these guys are being turned off from the idea by the very people we are supposed to be helping.  Only a small percentage want to take the time to go to the TA, and we cant really send them there in the middle of the night and expect them to find a trainer there.  I hesitate to use the .report feature becuase the guys are new for cryin out loud!  Sure, they are first class butt-nuggets and don't listen, but I don't want to report people who dont even understand what they did wrong.  I had one that got mad because there was no way to turn off the "HUD" as he called it (he wanted a way to remove the console and all the guages lol).  I had another one that was using the help channel to instruct newbs on the wonders of "alt + F4" for fixing all their problems.  When I confronted him he threatened to report ME for harassing him!  That one's gonna last.  lol

[Stone]

The "alt + f4" is so lame, I hope they had a little interpreter in AH that shuts down any one who type the text "alt + f4" on any channel

"high alt f4..." *puff*

[DamnedRen]

What's so amazing about the help channel is you can hear some rooks noob's telling anyone on it they are taking the goons to such and such field. So they are met by a mess of knights or bish then complain they can't get in.

Good job using help in the MA.

___________
Ren
The Damned

[StarOfAfrica2]

I tried to make them understand that too Ren, its just hard to take the time to argue with someone and convince them of stuff they dont understand while watching for Morph and his flying circus act to fly by and shoot me down on their way past.    

[Morpheus]

someone talking on help channel can be seen by any country?

[Howitzer]

Knight CV in sector 6,6,5, send 8 sets of NOE lancs STAT!



I love how spying is just so feared here.. not like the CV will respawn in 15mins. or something....

[SuperDud]

Originally posted by Morpheus
someone talking on help channel can be seen by any country?

YUP