Well the xp penalty is an issue but the only person I heard openly willing to help new players was Lazer and he wanted Blue plat for his time. Newbies can not OOC anyone until level 10 and when I got on recently all I heard in OOC was a few people smack talking and insult slinging back and forth which was bordline offensive. If you perhaps openly advirtised to assist people to get them started, more would come maybe. What was kind of funny was people trying to sell items in OOC to all of 32 people online at the time. FBSS for 7k etc etc. I'm not saying its conventional to just give stuff away or for new people to go through the hard knocks of going it alone, you guys toughed it out after all. I'm just suggesting perhaps a few kind gestures to newbies if it hasn't already been tried. Fun>pixel items.
Edit: To comment on the above poster, 882 posts and 2 chars to 50 pretty much screams pasty white basement dweller. Go get some sunshine man, geeze.
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