115305-a-suggestion-if-you-want-to-help-new-players

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One of the biggest problems I have noticed with experienced players trying to help new or lower level players in this game is that people tend to treat new players as if they might already know everything that they do.
 
Just remember one thing before typing out some advice to someone: Your world view is not the same as theirs. What I mean by this is that their experience of the game is far different from yours and your gained set of knowledge is probably not going to be congruent to theirs.
I don't mean "dumb things down" and treat people like they're stupid, I mean you should probably pick wording and elaborate details.
Biggest one is acronyms. You can say STL amoung people whom are aware of it's exeistance, but a new player is not going to know what those 3 little letters mean until they are told. This is contextual jargan, it requires a learned experience before it can be understood.
 
the first time you talk to someone and you want to reference Stormtalon's Lair, say it out the entire time and then you can put an(STL).
 
This isn't hard to do and it helps curb some of the confusion and lost feeling of a new player.
 
I've ran into this issue the most with trying to return to TERA. I played in Open beta in TERA and left to play other games, I've come back years later and of course there's a lot of new content. I've been asking players what I should do and what I'd need to progress. Unfortunately I get a lot of suggestions to do things that I have no idea what they're talking about. Because they reference their own experience rather than trying to point out a detail that can be learned.
 
Treating newer players as if they already know everything in the game does nothing to help them other than confusing them.
 
Just one example, it's somewhat understandable to tell an MMORPG player to look on the AH (auction house) for something. However telling them "go look on the CX" The commodities Exchange is not usually a recognizable term, muchless just 2 letters reference in it.
 
Realize that a lot of these reference that you make in game on a regular basis are contextual to the presence of game knowledge, and a new player isn't going to be aware of most of it.	
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This is true.
 
 
KV / ST(L) and all the other shortenings make things confusing for players who experience them for the first time.
 
Also there is a perception that every player is at least WoW trained by now, which leads to issues when someone asks 'what does dps mean?' 'What do you mean by aggro?' and other concepts most experienced MMO'ers take for granted once they've cut their teeth in the online worlds.	
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Tank,
 
WTH n00b 1 pwn U w/ mega dps n PvP!!!!11!!!
 
 
What? :blink:
 
 :lol:
 
 :D	
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"Where do I sell my stuff?"
"AH"
"Why are yelling at me!?"
 
Literally seen that in another game back in 2007. I laughed then, see a point now.	
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Chua recommend making list of known abbreviations somewhere.
Might help people, can even make as stick?
Chua go ask mod if can make such sticky.	
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Chua recommend making list of known abbreviations somewhere.
Might help people, can even make as stick?
Chua go ask mod if can make such sticky.
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			new players shouldn't be afraid to ask. When we're discussing in the guild what we want to do and say "let's do KV today" or "let's go show the new 50 STL", if someone asks "What does it mean?", we immediately answer. Of course don't answer new players with abbreviations, but new players too should be brave enough to ask :)	
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What if I'm putting together a raid for Seattle?
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What if I'm putting together a raid for Seattle?
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