A game for newbies?

[Blaze]

I see none of you got killed by the wandering murderer pre-scent era.
Or had to search for an hour to find a stone and another hour to find a tree to get an axe; having to fish all the while in order to stay alive since there were no apples trees. Since all the trees were cut down and all the boulders were turned into runestones spouting nonsense.
Or had your entire settlement AND the LP gained from making it erased after a crash.
Or had your HHP reduced to 1 because you lived among friends and the claims kept hitting you when you stepped too close.
Or had access to the public mine and be unable to use it since there was no wood for charcoal for miles around.
Or got locked inside your cabin for 3 days pre-item destruction era.
Or had the ore stolen from your smelter right in front of you.
Or be trapped at the RoB since someone blocked it entirely.
Or had your heathfire walled off with 6 sets of unbreakable campfires that burned for 20 minutes each.
Or had to wait a week for leather to finish tanning.
Or lose an item because you dropped it behind something.
Or be unable to play the game at all since some retard kept crashing the server

You're talking about the game being unplayable due to difficulty, I've been through the game when it was literally unplayable. Even now clicking the "buy" button on the character menu is a reflex.

I won't argue that the game is difficult as a newb, even I know that. But it WILL get better, you just need to have the patience to wait for it.
By the by, I did have a new character here, "Guy", named after that bastard that screwed up all my claimed boulders in my first settlement. I drowned with 47 Con due to lag.

Oh, and think metal prices are unfair now? Try trading an entire straw basket of bread for 12 cast iron coins and tell me how bad it is.

[Krantarin]

All of that happened to me, Blaze. I was there.

[Blaze]

Probably excepting the wandering murderer part.

I killed that bastard when he came after me, but he took down my first partner and kinmate before I could reach him.
Still remembering you Remy, you magnificent bastard you.

[Krantarin]

Lol, yeah. That never happened. Some macro-murderers who'd only been playing for a week did kill my best two month old character, though.

[Blaze]

Before or after scents were implemented?
And yeah, ye olde branch dropper macros did cause server crashes too, due to too many items on the ground.

[Krantarin]

It was after, but they and their macro friends (goonheim) had brick walls and gave them full immunity.

[Blaze]

Oh so you were the one all the Hubbub was about, no worries, those two got killed soon after.

Without the scent system, people could have just camped the RoB and kill everyone trading and just logout if someone stronger than them shows up.
Now they have to go through the process of building walls, which can be broken down; even if it does take super strength and time to do so.

Hell, even I may have been tempted into killing random people just for the fun of it.

Like I said, things will get better, but that depends on what the Devs implement first. Like fixing stealth (which would bone newbies completely).

[Krantarin]

Or making boats and revamping the LP system, which would make playing casually at a low-level more bearable again. Mindforcing.

[theTrav]

If the Trav remembers having a job, going to school, or even having a slight semblance of some real-life things to do, he'll remember that spending a half an hour finding a cow is actually wasting a thirtieth of your waking day trying to find a fucking cow!

I don't know why you feel the need to take a swing at me... Yeah, I've got a job, software engineer, I work it 40 hours a week. I also play volley ball, one game a week which is about 2 hours once transport is included, I go to parties, lans, have a girlfriend and play a lot of board games...
I end up playing H&H for about 1 or 2 hours a day most days before I head off to work, and then maybe 1 hour or so in the afternoon. I also play more on weekends if I'm not doing one of the other things I do...

I just have a different perspective to you I think. I don't look at the time it takes me to do something in H&H as parts of my life that I'm cutting out and burning... I'm specifically playing this game because I find the hunting, gathering, farming and building stuff enjoyable, even better when I'm doing it with other people. It's no more wasted than the 5 hour board game sessions or the two hours I spent last night watching dollhouse with my girl friend.

[Blaze]

It's true, not all of us are obese basement dwellers with no real life.

I came to Washington, work as a receptionist part-time (You wouldn't believe the kind of retards I have to deal with), take classes (Yay Free classes \o/), share a 2-story home with my 3 elder sisters (She was my aunt too you frigid little bitches), hang out with a some of my college friends (A few steady relationships, but I suppose I'm too silly to form a serious one. Meh, eldest sis turned out to be really happy with her arranged marriage, so I'll just wait for one of those.), and still find the time to reach my current LP total (34,451,322).