General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Scared on July 15, 2020, 12:07:11 AM
Title: friendly?
Post by: Scared on July 15, 2020, 12:07:11 AM
You know...as a returning dweeb and needing help, to be honest the MA is NOT a good place to get help. People are rude and assume you are full of crap. If that were corrected, and there was a more welcoming presence for newbs...the game would expand. Oh well..I am sure it has been said a million times. Just bums me out. I love this game and it sucks that new players get put off by rudeness and arrogance.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2020, 10:35:56 AM
there was a new player yesterday asking about how to set up his Mike. asked him several times to switch to my channel explaining how to do it. he never did. lots of players are willing to help.
semp
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: CptTrips on July 15, 2020, 11:38:43 AM
I'd love to know the stats of how many completely new players open an account each year that they keep longer than 3 months. If they don't stay longer than 3 months I don't consider them durable customers.
Not previous returning players on their 3rd id, but players completely new to Aces High.
How many new, durable customers do you think we capture each year? 50? 3? 1?
When was the last time you heard a squeaker asking if anyone needs a gunner? :D
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2020, 12:09:44 PM
what does that have to do with helping players?
you want info on how many players stick around send an email to hitech, he'll tell you everything you want to know.
semp
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: CptTrips on July 15, 2020, 12:25:41 PM
See rule #4
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2020, 12:40:09 PM
No, I can't. Your personality was formed decades ago. You just are who you are.
Sorry about that.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: Arlo on July 15, 2020, 02:04:51 PM
Delivering booze used to be called 'bootlegging' around here. Now it is a necessary service (as it obviously is elsewhere).
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2020, 02:16:53 PM
so you write born to kill on your helmet and wear a peace symbol, is that some kind of sick joke?
semp
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: DmonSlyr on July 15, 2020, 03:32:12 PM
I don't get to play as often as I like, but I hardly ever see anyone asking for help, or hardly ever use the help channel, which was a great idea. I dont really understand why. Perhaps some noobs don't know how the radio works. If I do see people asking for help, I normally see people going out of their way to provide suggestions. Honestly, I think more people should ask for help in the game. I rarely see it. Interesting because players will come to the board and complain that the game is too hard to learn, but how many of them consistently asked for help in the MA?
I know when I started, I was asking people tons of questions to learn how to better, rather than get discouraged and leave because everyone was better than me.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: turt21 on July 15, 2020, 06:45:45 PM
The unfriendliness in the game seems to be migrating here.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: Oldman731 on July 15, 2020, 08:38:52 PM
The unfriendliness in the game seems to be migrating here.
Ignore the purse fight in this thread.
Like Violator, I haven't observed many noobs asking for help. But certainly if they do, the rest of us should offer it without any snarkiness.
- oldman
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: MORAY37 on July 16, 2020, 02:45:32 AM
Define Irony...
Original poster asks whether the MA population has too much toxicity for new players to stick around.....Within two posts, a toxic donnybrook breaks out on the message board. :bhead
I've noticed that there is quite a bit of vitriol on country and 200. Perhaps it was less, a decade ago, perhaps not. But, the number of people on at a given time has gone down, making those people that stir things up stick out more. There is a difference between good natured chirping and toxicity, also. I've helped three or four people do things recently, so maybe there is a bit of influx of newer folks.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: icepac on July 17, 2020, 12:34:09 PM
Much of the problem stems from people changing their online names. In that, I mean that the general arena population is mighty suspicious of new names being current pilots coming back with a new name and trying to fool them.
Another issue is new people doing zero setup or learning of the sim and expecting the red carpet rolled out to ridiculous questions like......"how do I fly" and then "how do I take off" and then "how do I change a field".
Don't blame the game, blame the playa.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: Ramesis on July 18, 2020, 01:53:23 PM
Much of the problem stems from people changing their online names. In that, I mean that the general arena population is mighty suspicious of new names being current pilots coming back with a new name and trying to fool them.
yeah I get ya. I am guilty of that too. I was Scared...then Zapkin...and now JimLahey. I think I am gonna keep this handle as I am starting to get to know and really like some of the folks I am flying with. <S> all and thanks for posting.
Title: Re: friendly?
Post by: Puma44 on August 09, 2020, 08:44:06 AM