Originally Posted by
Tcei
I agree with what you say Oakleif, and Takora. While I am/was an "early flier", I never hesitate to recommend to newbies that they may want to wait untill 50/50 or so to do their RoP, simply for the fact that they'll be able to actually participate in the fights.
I personally dont mind if others dont want to help an under 50 hatchling, its their right, just as its the hatchlings right to ask, I didnt fuss at those who refused to help me when I did mine because I was under season.
In fact I wasnt even bother by the RP attitudes of the characters about being an under 50 adult, what got to me was the ooc comments. People flat out telling me I dont know how to play because I didnt wait till 50 or I didnt get that scale. The rude tells basically saying Learn too play noob, when I asked an honest question.
One particularly nasty and public argument I had over Dragon channel once was in defense of another early flier who asked for the location of something or other and another player said in a semi RP, and very rude tone, to the effect of if you're an adult you should know where it is, use your map. I shot back saying maybe his map wasnt working right, which it turns out was true. He replied back oocly that by the time you become an adult you should know where everything is anyways, and it just went down hill from there.
Then there's that handful of people who like to tell me that since Im an early flier, IM going to quit soon because Im going to be bored with the game, just like all the other early fliers. I wont say that there arent at least some early fliers do, but do these people ever seriously stop and think that maybe the reason why most of these early fliers who leave the game, leave because of the way the player base treats them? I know of quite afew who've left this game just because of this kind of treatment. How many people have left this game reguardless of age,race,or lvl because they were bored? I bet early fliers are a very small minority of that group.