[Jazuela]

It sounds like you failed on a lot of levels here. The emoting system is definitely detailed and robust, but you're not required to utilize all its capabilities. For directions to places, all you need to do is stand outside and type DIRECTIONS and you'll see a list of places you can get directions to. This is in the help files. There are no speed walkers; all movement has a built-in delay. You join a clan BECAUSE of the learning process. You don't avoid it because of the learning process. Joining a clan is the best way to learn how to play. That's why someone offered to help you do so. Again - in the help files and in the "new player" documentation. You will always feel like an idiot when you're new to any mud. That's the nature of being new, has nothing to do with the game you're in. You'll find that no matter where you go, if you go somewhere you haven't been before. There is a whole helper system outside the game where you can get "live chat" help at most hours of the day. Again - all in the help files, and in the new player documentation. In fact, as a new player, most of this would've been in the e-mail you received when you were first approved for your account, and then for your first character.

As for people checking in the game to make sure things are going OK, that won't happen in Armageddon, because Armageddon is an RP-centric RPI. When you're in the game, you are no longer a player. You're a character. And characters aren't always nice to each other. The fact that people tried to help you get clanned speaks to the generosity of players who bend over backward to be helpful and steer new players in the right direction, even if it goes against their character's personality to help your character (as opposed to robbing her, or murdering her, or swindling her, or ignoring her, or making fun of her).

Sorry you didn't enjoy the game, but it sounds like you were your own barrier to your enjoyment.