Several months ago I started a project.
I spent my first months in this game dying and starting again from scratch because people weren't helpful at all. For months my most valuable possessions were four bear teeth and a pickaxe.
Because of that, and seeing how new players are often target of murder or forum mockery, my idea was to find and help noobs to start up neatly and avoid making deadly mistakes. What I did was load an alt with tools and hq curios and port him randomly over the world, helping whatever fresh players I found while exploring, and tutoring them for a few weeks before leaving their region.
That was a cool project and it worked very well, and I was wondering if anyone else finds this interesting and wants to do the same. If you do, I'd like to be in contact with you.
It's light work and very easy to do, and at times it /is/ rather adventurous. Your alt will occasionally stumble on random raiding parties and will also scout the player's region for threats, so it's definitely not boring. It also involves a big deal of exploration so if you're into that you'll also be into this. Some of these players turn out to be really nice to talk to.
If that's something that fits your way of playing or if you think this might be fun for you, do PM me and I'll give you more details about this and other stuff involved. If you like the idea of casually exploring the world and meeting new people, or if you think there's more to this game than grinding quality, this could be a good thing to try.