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Just to throw in my two cents..
Necromium is neither a RP mud or a full on PK mud (although we do have pk in restricted areas and a clan-based pk war system) so our staff is a bit of an oddity.
We have a full player assistance staff and many processes put in place to help new players get moving. First, new players are offered an automated tour that shows them around the city, runs them through basic combat, provides the starter equipment, and explains our death system.
From there, our PAs run the Necromium Academy, which is a clan for players level 1-20. The PAs monitor the Academy's communication channel to answer questions regarding basic game play. All of our zones have help files. Zones meant for new players include basic directions on how to reach those areas.
Players level 1-5 can recall for free, and players 1-10 are exempt from the penalties associated with normal combat death. (We have 165 total levels, to put things in prospective.)
At the end of the day, I would say we are on the extreme end of the new player assistance spectrum offering, debateably, more assistance than anyone should need.
Along with that comes the realization that we refer to ourselves as a staff and not "gods", as we dont enforce RP.
Anyways, hope this information was useful.
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