User blog comment:LittleClay02/Who are we now my fellow players?/@comment-4072625-20110719120916

Well this may sound weird next to everyone else's stories... but back in the day I think people were much less helpful to new players than they are now. Back in the day, new people had to use creativity to get around. Mooching was an art. You devised techniques to get more rep from the high levels, while watching to not get killed while doing it. When you wanted cannon rep, you had to click on the captain (people on ships used to appear back then) and teleport to their ship and get some rep. There were tons of ways to annoy people whilst helping yourself, a somewhat piratey thing to do, while minimizing your deaths. New people these days just seem... uncreative, if you will. Just shoot, get revived, shoot, get revived. I would actually have some respect for a mooching newbie if they didnt just rush forth like mindless drones and get oblitherated in two shots.