To All the Veteran Players and Server Admins, Be Kind to New Players!

[roiter475]

I suggest opening a forum for new guyz, and post it on the main page , so everyone will see because not everyone go to the forums, especially new people.
And make it very clear on that official thread that everyone will see that they will read the PR MANUAL.
I remember playing with new guyz that didn't read the manual , you cant be patient with people that don't even know the basics. So PLEASE make it very clear for new people to read the PR MANUAL before going online.

Personally I am going to open squads called "FRESH MEAT" when I will want to squad lead.
And ask at the beginning who is a newb, and give them the medic kit\new specialist.
Those are in my opinion the most important roles to master at the beginning.

[Souls Of Mischief]

LITOralis.nMd;1924454']First off, this is a personal post, not one as a tech support volunteer.

Project Reality is going to have a well needed influx of new players in the next two weeks. One of the selling points for PR is the teamwork based nature of gameplay. It is now up to the veteran community to actually extend their hand out and welcome the new playerbase into their squads, on a daily basis, and show them around our little corner of the gaming internet.

That means:

• 1. Not locking asset squads to non-Clan members.
• 2. Not kicking new players from squads if they are floundering.
• 3. Taking the extra step to help total strangers get acclimated to PR's game mechanics and gameplay style on a regular basis for the coming weeks, during each and every gaming session.
• 4. Generally providing "teachable moments" admonishments instead of defaulting to the "kick that noob" mentality when dealing with seemingly clueless new players.
• 5. Be a good human being to those who might not have a strong grasp of the native language on the servers. In many ways, the future of PR is going to be in the developing nations where moderate performance, moderately priced hardware, and fast and reliable enough internet connections are just now becoming widely available.
• 6. Run some training squads, name them training squads, and take on the task of getting new players up to speed in PR.
• 7. Be nice enough to point people towards the online manual, which is being updated and will be available hopefully on release day.
• 8. Invite new players into your gaming clans/groups, let them see and participate in the larger community that has developed around the PR game,
• 9. The larger clans should break out and run 2 or 3 separate squads, filling the squads out with new players, and working in a mindset of multiple squads working together. Bring in a few clanmates in each squad, use the buddy system with new players, anything you can think of to get new players a good experience during their first impression of Project Reality.
• 10. No racism or prejudice.

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Good luck with that.

[Hulabi]

There is a way to bypass the 6 character prefix limit btw

[Warior135]

Good luck with that.

Yea, the highlighted suggestions are basically nigh-impossible until the newbies get at-least 2 months experience.

[a3dboy1]

+1 for Beginner's Forum

One thing newbs should know is:

DO NOT GRAB VEHICLES!

This will prevent from our "l33t" guys to rage spam admin to "kick dat n00b for wasting assets" and newbs will not get confused and quit.

Second thing is to make Beginner's server where clanmembers are not allowed. Yeah, this is the best option. Make pr0s fight pr0s and n00bs fight n00bs...

[AquaticPenguin]

One more I would like to add:

Be more tolerant of teamkills, because it's going to happen a lot, especially with missing name-tags for some players.

[rodrigoma]

Yea, the highlighted suggestions are basically nigh-impossible until the newbies get at-least 2 months experience.

wut?
what are you negative nancy's on about?

[nAyo]

Leniency will be the key

[Warior135]

wut?
what are you negative nancy's on about?

Read the post the post I was replying to was replying to. (Say that 5 times quickly)

[Hotrod525]

you know whats funny, is that i'm a veteran of P.R. (started on 0.3) and ill probly need to re-learn most of my thing, as with new release all the time, you guyz probly recall how THERMAL change the game balance, or on how LGB did too.. xD

[matty1053]

What I must say... Clans I love. But they will not give oppertunities for us NON clan players. Hey, I wanna drive a apc and tank!!! Easy Role!

[K4on]

sticky'ed as this is a really good thing, lito!

[zloyrash]

Me and my clan always give a chance to anyone who using mic and follow SL's commands. Welcome!
LorD zloyrash

btw, I still think

DEVs should create and recommend "Official Ruleset For Servers" so it will help all of us to play one sort of Project Reality.

[Determinist]

And cut that ''No one wants to play with immigrants'' bullshit.

[ghostfool84]

+1 for Beginner's Forum

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Second thing is to make Beginner's server where clanmembers are not allowed. Yeah, this is the best option. Make pr0s fight pr0s and n00bs fight n00bs...

I dont know why everyone thinks that players who have a clantag some kind of "pro". There are some good ones and some bad ones, like the people with no tag. The main difference is that these people play more often together, but there are enough publics out there who do also, but you dont recognize it because they have not the same tag. And even clans take the one round serious and fool around in another round...

A server only filled with noobs with leads to nothing, new people need some players with expierence or at least a clue how the game works, no matter if they have a tag or not.
They need a Squadleader who has time to explain the game and forgive failures while playing, but lead them in some way and hold the squad together so new players get the "squad expierence". A second player with expierence could help to for kits like medic, new players often dont get how it works at the beginning. The squads with veteren players should take some of the "boring" parts like defending a flag so that the squads with new players have the freedom to see something without losing the game fast...

[Raklodder]

Will do, sir!

[dysin]

had a few to play with today. biggest problem there was talking to the guys for a few minutes to see why they weren't replying. troubleshot it down to not having mum. nice one on the integration.

all of them seemed eager to learn. looking forward to playing with some good new people with the mindset on team wins and what makes them happen. it's very easy to just lock the squad off and fill it with the clan, but we're working with 8 man squads now and not every one them can be locked at 4. if you plan on running some assets, keep in mind that we're still working with 9 squad slots. open up and have them scout if you need to, let's not have 10 unassigned guys looking for a good match.

[Wooonderboy]

never played PR before but looking forward to it!