n00bs i/b Main Arenas

[MajIssue]

yes....for those of you that are good, they'll make good targets.........but don't forget too........when they're asking questions, try to offer them help, besides the "ALT-F4" thing, or telling them to go to the training arena. they'll make better teammates, and better fights if they're enemys. there's a lot in the MA's i see just elling at noobs......we all were once

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Well said CAP1... a little help goes a long way... But you GOTTA laugh sometimes. Last night while I was engaged with trying to escape the entire NitWaffe in a Pony-D, a new guy (I think his gameID was something like (81765543456650098) comes on range and says (and I quote) "I can't make my wheels come down"! I nearly augered I was laughing so hard! I replied that the "G" key would lower his gear if he was flying slow enough, and later suggested that a quick glance at the help page and a session in the TA would be time well spent.

[Urthona]

If I recall it right, when you sign up you are asked for a handle using alphanumeric characters.
Many folks think that's just numbers

I think a lot of players don't understand the importance of the name until they've actually played the game a few days.  I know I didn't.  I started getting a lot more six calls when I changed my in-game name from Urthona to Earthdog.  It can be important to have a name people can pronounce.  I know I got tired of always being called Urethra

[Lusche]

It can be important to have a name people can pronounce.

LOL.. I did a bad job then for sure. I think Widewing was the only native English speaker in this game ever to pronounce my name correctly 

[wrongwayric]

Once again i'll say it, ALL new players should be required to spend 30 min in the TA at a minimum! Before they can access any other arena's mandatory 30 min in TA. I'm not your trainer or babysitter in the MA's! I will help you in the TA but in the MA's i have other priorities. Constant questions that can be easily answered in the TA are annoying in the MA at the least. And don't get me started on the ones that just pop a join message on you when your in a fighter. The TA is set up specifically for the task of educating these people yet it's rarely used till they get forced to go there which is sad as if they went right off the get go there first experience in the MA's would be much more pleasurable. Questions like how do i launch, how do i set up my joystick, how do i use vox, ect ect... These could all be answered and handled by trainers quite easily.

[Lusche]

Once again i'll say it, ALL new players should be required to spend 30 min in the TA at a minimum! Before they can access any other arena's mandatory 30 min in TA. I'm not your trainer or babysitter in the MA's!

And whos's gonna "babysit" them in the TA? There's not always a trainer on, and a huge part of the day there are not even experienced players there to help.
At offpeak hours I often see people just answer "Go TA", which is basically empty at that time, instead of at least directing them to webpage help, or (even better) to the Trainer Coprs site. 

[stickpig]

What is the deal with the new guys not having enough imagination to come up with a decent handle anyway? One of my squadies when he first started was a numbers guy, but after 2 days of flying he found the perfect handle. We now call him Auger.

If you dont pay attention when signing up you can mix up log in name and in game handle. it happened to me when I signed up a few years back.

most #'s guys think that their # ID was just the password to log in....not the in game name