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Old 01-09-2013, 10:37 AM   #4
SnowTroll
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Re: Games that already have everyone they want

I've played many muds (sometimes as an alt of an established character, sometimes as a true newbie) and found this to be a fairly common thing. It's not that the players only want to be with their friends, so screw you. They just don't want or need the new character for anything. You have no idea whether the 15th new character you've seen log in today is going to stick around and be there tomorrow, so you don't know whether it's worth the time you could be doing other things to try to form some kind of relationship with this newbie. Especially since an RP relationship with a newbie is fairly one-sided. They can give you entertainment, but you don't advance your character or gain any power, influence, or assistance by being friends with a newbie unless that newbie sticks around a few months/years to become someone powerful and worth knowing (assuming your relationship with them lasts that long).

In an RP environment, it's on the newbie to prove himself and keep at it. Assert himself, jump into things, do well, and make a good impression. And most importantly, stick around, so people get used to seeing you and start to accept that you'll be there tomorrow. If you're discouraged and never come back because people ignore you for your first day and don't bend over backwards to welcome the new roleplayer, you're exactly the type of player people can't count on to be there tomorrow, because the second people aren't leaping to entertain you and fawning over your RP, you'll get bored or discouraged and disappear.
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