Notice Users new to the server and YOU

I feel personally attacked, but you're right

 

I always try to help those new players on the server with mesos or information, even with the fact that I don't have a good english, and I personally think it worths more than anything. Having an active community for me is much more important than building my own character tbh.

 

Out of curiosity, how would you define a "new user"?

Say, person A has been playing Legends for 5 days, but has spent 16 hours each day on the game ever since he started (80 hours).

Person B, on the other hand, has been playing for around 1 month. He logs in everyday but only plays for 1 - 2 hours.

Well, this might not be the best example but I'm sure you get my point. Would you call person A a new user, whereas the term will not apply for person B?

Likewise, there are also people who play the server for a few weeks/months, before deciding to join the discord? Would you classify them as a "new user" too?

 

The easiest answer is that it shouldn't really matter how long someone has been playing. If you don't know them you should be nice to them and try to be helpful. There is a period of time when someone joins a server where they are easily influenced on if this is where they want to spend their time or not. It's an individual basis and not something you can put a time on. You can't expect someone to know your personality when they never met you. Get to know people before you start joking with them. Being approachable, helpful, and friendly is the best way to make people want to continue to play here.

 

This doesn't really make a difference to the concept of potentially feeling unwelcome when entering the Discord for (one of) the first time(s). In either case, you can come in, take a snide remark from someone you don't know, and get a very unwelcome feeling.

 

I only started playing a few days ago, and have had a run in with toxicity a couple times. I played maple a bit in like 2010 when I was in early high school, but was never very into the game. So a lot of ettiquette from both GMS and private servers I just simply don't know and need someone to poke me in the right direction sometimes. I went into an area that someone was afk in - I just needed to kill a couple mobs for a lvl 30 quest. I was doing this for 5 mins~ on the other side of the map to the guy who was afk on a ladder. All of a sudden after a while he comes up and starts yelling at me "you want to get reported to gm for stealing my mobs? ". I ignored him thinking he was just being an ass because of his tone - he continues to swear and be an ass so I keep ignoring him. Eventually a GM comes and asks me if I know what mapowner is. I tell him no, he explains it to me, I apologise and we move on. But as soon as the GM leaves dude goes back to calling me names and swearing at me. There are just people out there in online communities who feel the need to be rude instead of helping new players

 

Thanks for adressing this!

When I joined Legends 3 months ago, 50% of my replies were funny inside jokes.

 

Pepper that you? I didn't feel like the people were being "friendly" or "helpful" or even "approachable" so I left the discord, but then joined back and muted #General and blocked about 13 people but I guess everyone was being helpful, right?

What if a new player joined the server and didn't know how @mapowner worked or how its used, I've changed channels through Uwulu 2 (yes uwulu, ulu estate 2) and I noticed that a few players were on the vines at the bottom I checked mapowner there wasn't any so I took the map. Do I feel like a jerk for doing so? Yes. Was it stated in the rules that it's okay to take a map that has no mapowner? Yes, but I still felt like a jerk.

Having said this, if a new player stumbled across @mapowner and this happened to them.. and they went to the discord to ask for help not knowing how it was done, or in this case how it's used? (I'm kind of bad at describing things, most of the time.. so heres screenshots. with of course, no pointing fingers so I'll scribble over the names.)

 

Don't go bringing that up again. Everyone stayed civil in that discussion, regardless of a very extensive discussion of you disagreeing with a system that everybody abides by.

 

Just stating it here to just show how things can possibly get in the server.

 

It's a shame that if I was who took your map, i'd just pty you and let you get kill count for quest
or seems you're newcomer, just advice you how to keep map and CC myself.... I feel sorry for your experience.

I hope that episode doesn't harm you too much. you'll know soon there are many bad apples, but also awesome and nice ppls too. and meeting them, making friendship with them is most wonderful thing in this our favorite mushroom game, I'm sure.

 

Glad that this point is addressed. As a player for more than half a year in the game, the general thread in discord is mostly toxic with some notable members that hang around there just being assholes to everyone in general.

But in-game many players are friendly and nice to everyone in general. So its indeed true that discord is definitely not reflective of the community.

Would be good if the MapleLegends Features thread is placed in welcome channel of discord so that users can find out more about MapleLegends. Even as a player for half a year, I do not know some points like the style saver.

 

Thank you, this message made my day

 

I just feel as though the Discord isn't moderated enough. I'm not saying to have someone sit there and read the chats all day, but to occasionally browse through some of it. It's far too often that I see toxicity in the general chat and it's usually the same few names doing it day in and day out. In their minds they're being comedians but to any newer player reading how they're treating another member it's certainly a turn-off to the server.

Hopefully any of the newer players don't let the discord turn them away from the game where the majority of the population are really nice and helpful.

 

Are we pretending that some dickhead that you can ignore in Discord who represents a fraction of the Discord community is comparable to a new player learning he needs to vote for over a year to have a chance in hell of competing at the top end?

Lets not be silly...

 

Style Saver costs 10mil mesos for each to get your hair or face back.. its to expensive.