REMEMBER WE MUST HELP THE NEWBIES OUT

[Razy]

I used to follow the lowbies with my lvl 50 empath or my lvl 50 ice/empath troller for a sewers run. I healed, buffed, and followed them around for the entire run It was fun to help them out.

[Drauger9]

Lets just hope we don't get a huge influx of newbies who try to help US out by trying
to force the holy trinity style of play.

I hope this happens ALOT! Think about how disillusioned they'll be? When they see an all blaster ITF, an all scrapper TF.

As for helping the new players, I'll just do what I've always done. Team with them on one of my many many many alts, give advice about what's worked for me, ect.. I'm given out purples, uniques and influence before. Help people complete missions that they was stuck on ect..

[Lupur]

I remember spending hours trying to explain to folks ( unsuccessfully might I add ) that you DON'T need Tankers, Blasters and Defenders on EVERY RADIO TEAM.

I also remember getting booted from a team because my Dark//Dark Defender didn't have enough healing skills and was 'useless at higher lvls cause you can't heal the damage'

Yeah, stuff like that got me real riled up :/

The folks in the global channels I was in got a right ol' laugh out of it though.

The folks I would be Skyping with were in hysterics over my ranting / frothing at the mouth ...

*sigh* the good ol days ...

[Codewalker]

Lets just hope we don't get a huge influx of newbies who try to help US out by trying
to force the holy trinity style of play. 

My biggest fear, that the new crop of players will completely change the culture of the game.

Hey, we were all young and stupid sometime.

They'll figure it out eventually. Or they'll get bored and stop playing. Win/win.

[Shadowe]

Ah, the good old days...

Hanging out in Atlas Park, handing out millions of inf to newbies with nothing more than a "welcome to Paragon".

Answering questions in Help.

Working my butt off to keep 99 full sets of Halloween salvage on my main so that I could hand a complete set to anyone, any time, for any reason.

Flyby debuffing.

Escorting newbies through dangerous parts of the city (I'm looking at you, little level 12 stuck in Portal Court wanting a safe route back to AP, here, team with me, do you want the scenic tour, or to use my SG base teleporter?).

Meeting new Roleplayers and showing them the ropes of how we did things on Union.

Damn, I miss doing all those things, and much more.

[Power Gamer]

Ah, the good old days...

Hanging out in Atlas Park, handing out millions of inf to newbies with nothing more than a "welcome to Paragon".

Answering questions in Help.

Working my butt off to keep 99 full sets of Halloween salvage on my main so that I could hand a complete set to anyone, any time, for any reason.

Flyby debuffing.

Escorting newbies through dangerous parts of the city (I'm looking at you, little level 12 stuck in Portal Court wanting a safe route back to AP, here, team with me, do you want the scenic tour, or to use my SG base teleporter?).

Meeting new Roleplayers and showing them the ropes of how we did things on Union.

Damn, I miss doing all those things, and much more.

I feel your pain.

[Paragon Avenger]

This might help the new players.  Introduce a new feature Red-Side that enables higher level players to steal inf. from lower level players.  Kind of roleplaying in real life.

[JennSpace]

This might help the new players.  Introduce a new feature Red-Side that enables higher level players to steal inf. from lower level players.  Kind of roleplaying in real life.

I'd think I'm hearing Kingpin, the way you're speaking! Then again, you might be Kingpin...

[Power Gamer]

I have to say red-side did not feel as villainish and blue-side was heroic, IMO.

[JennSpace]

I have to say red-side did not feel as villainish and blue-side was heroic, IMO.

I agree, I played CoV in 2005 and most vilains including me just sounded like heroes in disguise! XDD 

[Galina]

I agree, I played CoV in 2005 and most vilains including me just sounded like heroes in disguise! XDD 

When COV first came out it seemed that every 3rd villain that had a bio stated that they were a hero in disguise infiltrating the Isles to get information on Lord Recluse.
Most of the missions were also kind of non-villanish, except for the Westin Phillips story arc (40-45) Miss Francine and the Freakshow.   That was a pretty disturbing story arc to run, at least for me.  Westin is one of the few Red side contacts that felt truly Evil.  I actually went out of my way with my other villains to not have him as a contact.

That is one of the tips I would give a new player.  Read the story missions, contact notes and clues, otherwise your missing half of the content.

[JennSpace]

When COV first came out it seemed that every 3rd villain that had a bio stated that they were a hero in disguise infiltrating the Isles to get information on Lord Recluse.
Most of the missions were also kind of non-villanish, except for the Westin Phillips story arc (40-45) Miss Francine and the Freakshow.   That was a pretty disturbing story arc to run, at least for me.  Westin is one of the few Red side contacts that felt truly Evil.  I actually went out of my way with my other villains to not have him as a contact.

That is one of the tips I would give a new player.  Read the story missions, contact notes and clues, otherwise your missing half of the content.

Exactly, the CoX lore is so rich and so deep, I completed 53 story arcs just because of that! lol

[Paragon Avenger]

To me at least, the gifting to lowbies dried up once incarnate started.  The50's were too busy for that kind of thing.  And on Freedom people paid to PL.  I guess if they are door-sitting then paying seems appropriate, but the way I got PL'd was like my lvl 35 on a lvl 50 team wite in there "helping".

[LaughingAlex]

Oh, we could just make some AE missions titled "Newbie friendly mission, enter for tutorial" and then just spawn 100+ storm/dark armor mobs on them .

Edit: With full extreme settings all powers on everything including minions, and also level lock it to 1 so everyone only has powers up to level 6!

[Burnt Toast]

Way to over generalize an entire server. FYI Atlas Park was always busy with lowbie action (Not just DFB either). HELP was a very active and helpful channel...as was AP broadcast. Freedom was one of the greatest "teaching" servers in my opinion...especially for learning about powers and maximizing builds. 

People used to pay for PL back in Issue 3 btw.

To me at least, the gifting to lowbies dried up once incarnate started.  The50's were too busy for that kind of thing.  And on Freedom people paid to PL.  I guess if they are door-sitting then paying seems appropriate, but the way I got PL'd was like my lvl 35 on a lvl 50 team wite in there "helping".

[Wyrm]

Way to over generalize an entire server. FYI Atlas Park was always busy with lowbie action (Not just DFB either). HELP was a very active and helpful channel...as was AP broadcast. Freedom was one of the greatest "teaching" servers in my opinion...especially for learning about powers and maximizing builds.

Every server had its stereotypes.  If you never found the "right" channels on some servers, they could feel like ghost towns, PL paradises, RMT spamfests, or extended versions of high school cliques.  On Virtue, for example, I removed HELP from all my characters, because of how spammy it got.  But every server also had awesome, helpful people.  The more people on a server, the more likely were were to run into someone whose approach to the game didn't fit with yours, or who confirmed whatever stereotype you might have had.  It's just a numbers game.

[Paragon Avenger]

I know every server has pay to PL, but freedom got famous for oit, but OF CPURSR, that wasn't the only action.  I guess I post on shorthand.

And paying to get PL'd isn't my style, I don't understand it.

[Plinkyplonk]

Ha ha, I could never understand people wanting to pay other people to play the game for them. PL'ing just indicates that a player is not interested in the game. You have to be within a certain level range to accomplish certain missions to gain certain rewards.

Edited for Burnt Toast - (IMO)

[Burnt Toast]

Just stares.....

Ha ha, I could never understand people wanting to pay other people to play the game for them. PL'ing just indicates that a player is not interested in the game. You have to be within a certain level range to accomplish certain missions to gain certain rewards.

[Burnt Toast]

My "staring" was at your over the top assumptions:


1. PL indicates you are not interested in the game? Some of us played the content for years... all of it. My interest was in end game and pvp... so yeah I PLd to get to the things I really wanted. My interest in the game is quite high and always has been. I was subbed from beginning to end.. multiple accounts. CoH is the only MMO I have ever played more than a week or two (And I tried a bunch). Just because my interest didn't involve always running the content over and over... bears no reflection on my interest in the game as a whole.


2. You do not have to be a certain level to complete certain missions for their rewards... May i introduce you to Ouroboros. Every toon I had... had Atlas Medallion regardless of being power leveled or not... as well as the Wedding Band

Ha ha, I could never understand people wanting to pay other people to play the game for them. PL'ing just indicates that a player is not interested in the game. You have to be within a certain level range to accomplish certain missions to gain certain rewards.

Edited for Burnt Toast - (IMO)