06-12-2011, 08:57 PM
The major problem with this is the impression it leaves on new members - which we desperately need. This is a small mod so far, and community is key for a team game such as this, yet the community is prone to boot new members as quickly as possible.
I had the fortune to understand the deployable shield placement from the start, and as soon as I realized that getting close would result in the enemy hitting them, I backed away. Luckily, the players online understood that I didn't know, and let me learn my lesson. (Yay NA server)
But this usually doesn't happen. I have an example, where two new players joined the server. They went towards the shields, and I told them to back away, or the enemy will destroy the shields. But before anyone else had even said anything, a poll popped up. One guy was booted. The other guy had backed away as soon as I had told him to. Another poll popped up to kick him - he said he had backed away as soon as he found out, but he was still booted. Have I seen those two players since? No. And they're probably going to spread the word to their friends, and that is even more members we have lost.
We need to understand that new players won't know these things, and that the benefits of keeping them around and teaching them and building a strong community FAR outweigh whatever xp you might have gained that round.
I had the fortune to understand the deployable shield placement from the start, and as soon as I realized that getting close would result in the enemy hitting them, I backed away. Luckily, the players online understood that I didn't know, and let me learn my lesson. (Yay NA server)
But this usually doesn't happen. I have an example, where two new players joined the server. They went towards the shields, and I told them to back away, or the enemy will destroy the shields. But before anyone else had even said anything, a poll popped up. One guy was booted. The other guy had backed away as soon as I had told him to. Another poll popped up to kick him - he said he had backed away as soon as he found out, but he was still booted. Have I seen those two players since? No. And they're probably going to spread the word to their friends, and that is even more members we have lost.
We need to understand that new players won't know these things, and that the benefits of keeping them around and teaching them and building a strong community FAR outweigh whatever xp you might have gained that round.