And the Whiner is......
LePaul
Member
Member # 1846
posted 11-26-2001 11:59 PM
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I'm a bad person, I'll 'fess up right here and now. My patience has worn out with the influx of newbies, the time for "Hello, welcome aboard" has passed and the "Shaddup and go read the doc's" is becoming the knee jerk reaction.
And its not so much the Air Warrior guys, most of those folks are great fellas and say their Hello's to the room and commence play.
What's ticking me off is all the newbie's who refuse to read the docs, learn to play in the Training Room, and constantly try joining your aircraft. I had 8 players in a 1/2 hour period try joining my Typhoon. A quick check to the roster show's their rank of Zero.
We all learned this game at one point. Some nice folks lead me to the training room, and folks in there showed me how to fly the various planes, and gave me URLs to their websites and others on the pro's and con's of each aircraft, etc etc. Now, we have folks signing on with no bother to read the help files or stop by the training. Nope, let's plop down into the Main Arena, where everyone is, and pester the paying users. "HOW DO I BOMB?" "HOW DO I MOVE TO A DIFFERENT BASE" and the rantings go on and on. Forget relying on channel 2 for any status on fields or strategy. We've got to stop what we're doing and educate "Skippy", King of the Dweebs.
For a while, I endured it. But now, its just a constant thing. And I know a few others agree with me, YES newbies are good for the game but there's a right way and a wrong way to get started. And I've got fellas reminding me of what a jerk I am for suggesting the newbie go into the training room and LEARN. My logic (really, there is some...) is if they learn in there, not only are folks who are PATIENT and LIKE teaching people in there, but the poor newbie might be a bit less frustrated, and less a pain in the butt to the rest of the gaming community in the Main.
And if you bring a newbie into the game, how's about going into private chat with him, so those of us following the buffer for news on backup and other game situations do not have to squint through you and skippy's ramblings on "Gee the La7 is fast"
I want to be considerate to the newbies, I simply request that they be respectful to the members that are paying to play.
Am I outta line here, or simply asking too much?
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Paul J. Bussiere
CheckSix.Net
Bangor, Maine USA
http://www.checksix.net Aces High Arena handle: BD5Pilot
