Cute Newbies

I've read plenty of stories on these forums about dreadfully inexperienced players. Don't get me wrong, I like these stories. However, I don't feel there are enough stories about the bad players' brethren: the cute newbie.

I was flashbacking Flux's arc earlier. I was en route back to him after the first mission, where I came across a couple of outcasts punching a blaster who simply wasn't fighting back. I stood by, keeping an eye on his health bar. If it got low enough, I'd just go save the li'l guy. I watched on, curious as to why this blaster wasn't fighting back. I hadn't been there long, but long enough to throw a couple of attacks out. Then the speech bubble appeared above his head.

'Where is the hideout?'

He then went on to blast away at this group, and made short work of them. I smiled at this odd little roleplayer, and turned to be on my way. But the blaster ran to me and stopped. I only thought it polite to wait.

'Excuse me, are these the right Outcasts?'

I wasn't too sure what he was talking about, but tried to help him out. When he realised I was clueless, he told me not to mind and ran off. I went on with my arc.

Two missions later, it all clicks into place. Flux is setting me up for my next mission.

So first I need you to hit the streets and take out a few Outcasts. Then you can claim you learned the base's location from them. Keep asking about the hideout. It doesn't matter if you get an answer or not; the only thing that matters is that you put on a good show.'

It would appear this guy thought that he actually had to ask the outcasts he fought about the the location of Frostfire's hideout. Bless. Of course, there's the chance he was a roleplayer, but I thought it sweet nevertheless.

Has anybody else come across the cute newbie? I'm itching to hear a story or two.

That's actually pretty cool that he got into the story so much to do that.

Most people just click the text and run toward the marker.

Heck, I remember npc characters being able to "hear" you a tiny bit back in Ultima Online. "Vendor, I'd like to buy some product" and it would look for key words. Be neat if such functionality could be used here, maybe he did indeed think so and was following instructions.

I'm guessing RPer. I've done similar myself at times, as have others.

Well, okay, if he was RPing, he was really really into it if he was asking other players for help IC too. When you seemed to not be playing along, I would've expected something like "((Sorry, RPing, don't mean to bother you.))"