Posted by Shokai(IMM) on February 2, 2000 at 20:02:40:
In Reply to: Three honest questions. posted by Stahlhagen on February 2, 2000 at 19:53:28:
> > 1) Do you feel that Graatch's tone is neither condescending nor snobbish in his two posts? it is a bit, but everytime something new shows up, I can generally count the seconds before someone posts what does 'newthing' do. I'm not condoning the tone, but don't let the messenger kill the message. point taken. No I don't think it's that big of a deal, but instead of people trying it for themselves...everyone wants to be spoonfed the answers, that's what annoys me. > 3) Is gaining new players a priority for the CF staff? Keeping newbies completely in the dark will often leave them frustrated when they can't get past level 15 because Joe Expert PKs them in a heartbeat. Personally, I don't think giving newbies "easy" facts hurts the game one bit. It's a tricky line to draw, but I felt his question was well on the safe side. Do a search on my name to see how I handle less appropriate questions. I am not a "tell all" kind of guy either. I like seeing CF have new blood, what I don't like is how quickly a lot of them are corrupted into asking for answers instead of even making a half-hearted attempt to find them out on thier own. I've said it before, I'll say it again, CF is not the most newbie friendly mud there is out there...and there are some questions that if a newbie didn't need the answers to, I'd be shocked (most of those answers are in the helpfiles)...I guess I'm bitching about a general attitude and not a single incident...there just seemed to be enough traffic on this thread that I thought someone might read it and it may give at least 1 person a moment of thought.
> > I think most of what I've read from people ends or starts with 'play one and find out', which personally I don't see as elitest, snobbish, dickheaded...or any of the other litany of dispareging remarks tossed around.
> 2) Do you feel that knowing that Wood Elves get acute vision is on that level? I would think that an average fight on the Log Board reveals a lot more "earned" information than that. It's certainly how I know what cabal most of the level 30+ folk are in, and who the real tough fighters are. (Or what Pheonix Fire does, to hit closer to home.)