It was fairly late at night, only about 100 people on total. This guy was upping M4's repeatedly and very determinedly trying to take down (as I found out later) the radar on a Bish airbase. Well, he was obviously a newb as he died gloriously and repeatedly first from a couple of aircraft, then from me in a GV. Eventually, he slowed down and I PM'd him about one of his tactics being a bad idea. He responded and I learned he'd been told a number of things from his Knit "countrymen" as this was his first night in the game.
First and foremost was that Alt - F4 would get him out of trouble (which it did of course, sending him to Windows). Then they told him that smoke would kill enemy tanks and use lots of it (the tactic I called him on). Further they told him to attack until he took out the radar no matter what cause they were sending a mission in to capture. Of course, over a half hour or more, no mission ever got started even after the radar went down.
Over the radio, in text, I talked to him for awhile and offered some much more accurate advice, etc. Most surprised was he when he found out he could change countries, as I guess he'd been told he couldn't. He changed to Bish. And though a newb, we're happy to have him. He learns real fast. That very night after I told him how to level bomb, he dropped 2 hangers at a Knit base with pinpoint, single salvos in a single pass.
The point of this is, I was appalled that veteran players would jerk around a new guy like that (there was other inaccurate "advice" as well). And this guy was NOT a kid. In fact, he was older than most of us and very interested in learning the new game he'd just found. Frankly, even though they were Knits, I'm was a bit ashamed of for the community as a whole. This is not what we need to keep the game alive and fun.
