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Can't argue with Arcanaville. I'm sure she's got a mathematical proof somewhere that proves what we all know: if a man has managed to stay married for 10 years, then he's one lucky sonuvagun.

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So far for me Freedom stands at;

Gained 1 returned friend. 1 brand new friend playing
Lost 2 potential returnees. Still trying to convince 1 other friend to 'give it a shot'.

The one friend that returned, he was a high enough tier to have everything he wanted, having played for 3 years off/on. Freedom impressed him so much he went ahead and resubbed AND plunked $15 on the store for bling!!!
The other one is in informational overload. Having never played an MMO before it's slow going, so the restrictions don't matter as much.
I really wish he had /Tells though, and ability to accept my dang influence trade...

Having to go all the way back to the core fundamentals for him, I mean core as in W is forward, Conning etc. Makes me realize just how complex our game has become over the years. We evolved with it so we take it for granted how daunting learning all this could be to new players.
We take it for granted.

Keep that in mind when arguing over the restrictions on true new. It's nearly impossible for us to grasp how daunting this game might seem to those unfamiliar with it. I'm overly emphasing that there isn't a rush, take your time so he doesn't get discouraged and go back to farmville. However, this is with a real life friend. Bridging the gap with complete strangers takes more.

We need more ways to assimilate the new players into out ranks Dev's. Get with marketing, do what you have to. You have a tremendous free resource in recruiting through us, the ViP's. Consider creation of a channel specifically for Free players, if nothing else it will ease the clutter on Help.

I understand that it only cost $5 to unlock these chat functions. I understand this but they do not. I have no easy way of communicating that fact to them either. If a $5 transaction could potentially cost my company $100's by 'turning them away at the door' then I'm going to waive that fee.

I'm not saying give them free reign over the air-waves either. Being able to /Tell and having a dedicated channel with the ability to accept trades would be more than enough!

Helper title is not only useless as it currently stands, it's actually dangerous. Help me should be avail to all at creation. Helper should be earned somehow, perhaps even monitored. I shudder at how many griefers are sporting Helper titles these days.

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Personally, I think if you list yourself as a helper it should open you up to tells from anyone.

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Then everybody just enables 'helper' and bypass the tell restriction.

I rather see some 'interaction' from the GM team, they select a few dedicated ingame helpers or sortlike being tagged specialy for Q&A with newbies and returning vets.

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I agree with this statement.

I gave up on the help channel long ago, once I realized people were putting on the helper tag and then treating the help channel as if it was just any other global channel for their entertainment. Discussions about sports, movies, game stuff, AE arguments, abound. But there's very little help. And heaven forbid anyone actually ask for help - they get demolished by know-it-all helpers who can't pass up the opportunity to deride a "noob".

I can't help but wonder how many legitimate new players may be driven away by the "help" they get in the help channel.

I was talking to one player last night that couldn't access their Premium account (due to lack of payment), but could get on their VIP account.

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Concur.

The helper and help-me titles are mainly chosen by veterans for the colors, not because they either wish to help people or need help. In that, they're worse than useless. The times I tried to help people with "help-me" I got put off by their replies. And I expect that if someone who used the "helper" title just for the color got a lot of questions from people who wanted help on that basis, their patience might wear thin fast.

I'm not sure why the help channel gets the off-topic spam, but it's a problem too. There should be some other channel, server-wide and accessible to everyone, for general "chatter", and some way to dissuade people from using the help channel for spam and such. Can, or should, we report blatant non-help use of the help channel as spam?

I'm getting that error on my "premium" account also. My VIP account is fine, by what should be an premium account (ie. previously cancelled VIP account) gets the "Cannot logon due to lack of payment... " error. Submitted an petition, but no response so far.

If I was in charge, I would explicitly state that the rules of the Help channel are you can only ask question or give answers. Any other discussion is forbidden, and any denigration of any kind expressed against a player asking for help would draw an automatic zero tolerance three day ban.

And then I would send someone to their house to shoot them in the face.

Which is probably why Zwillinger is a community coordinator, and I'm ... not.

Unfortunately, that's the same environment as it was in help channels in a few other online games and MMO's I've played in the past. For the most part, in my corner of the CoX universe, there are more helpful vets who are willing to help a n00b than in any other game I've played. It's too bad that the mostly pleasant in-game and forum experience a new player might have could be so quickly overshadowed by some total idiots in the Help channel.

Those titles are worse than useless, and they're ugly, too. Seriously. Back when everyone in CoX had blue titles, they blended together nicely and faded into the background. Now with these titles and "Custom Colored Titles" as a vet reward, it's finally driving me to change my settings to "only show names on mouseover" or whatever it's called.

"Helper" should only unlock after some arbitrary time that people would argue over; frankly, I think "Help Me" should LOCK after a certain amount of time, but I do realize that wouldn't be at all fair to returning players.

As it is, if I see "Help Me" over a player's head with a couple of year's worth of vet badges, who says something like "I just like the color LOL" I wonder what sort of person plays with their own name displayed and just walk away. If someone can't tell what character they're playing by their costume and power trays, especially after they just saw the character name and AT at log-in, maybe they should spend more time at Icon or something.

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