The Newb Experience in P99

[Omnimorph]

Originally Posted by Messianic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Very true. I've helped a few people quite a bit, but I always watch myself and try to avoid that line of ruining the early experience for them (gave some guy a BS mantle and a cheap deal on ebony bladed swords the other day).

It's a crucial experience to be able to build yourself up on your own, rather than simply having loot handed to you.

Yeah, i remember on live, i was a fresh face dark elf noob, hanging around EC side of nektulos forest killing zombies and skellies (i was level 8!) and some guy runs past ... and low and behold he gives me black chitin legs, for no reason. I'm like "thanks". I then go into EC, and auction them, and omgwtfz they're worth like 800-1000p. I had like 5p to my name at the time.

I spent the next few weeks trading the legs for various items like crafted BP's and skull shaped barbutes etc. I was very nicely geared for a level 8... but anyway, the hand out had actually drawn me into the ruthless side of bartering and trading [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] and i neglected to level up and explore.