Unfortunately, many people have the mentality that newbies should make their own beginnings. When I started out, I didn’t ask for anything. I just went and started after finding a good place on the map. However, I love to help people out, especially newbies. Unfortunately, my experiences of helping out have been severely tainted by newbies attempting to kill me or succeeding in killing me, making me lose the entire stash of items I had that I was using for a project. I think it would be great to set up a system as proposed here, and maybe just have some collection areas at cove, spawn, the NESW warps, and just around crews, towns, and other busy areas where players could toss a few items in a hopper if they didn’t need them, and just have a little exchange area at cove or something. Personally, though, I don’t think we should make handouts completely free, as the newbies could then just become reliant on this, or other players could use it. Constant surveillance would be impossible, so I think there should just be some basic, easy to get currency, such as wheat, or seeds, maybe cobble that could be traded for items of slightly higher value, such as food, seeds for better farms, leather armor, etc. Some of the items could also be put in a slot machine of some kind and make it so you have a chance of getting a lower value item, a decent chance of getting an equal or slightly better item, and a chance to get a better item that is a little bit higher than the chance for a lower value item, but still lower than the equal. I would like to participate in this as much as I can, in order to help people out, and just have fun on the server for some time(currently all I’m doing on this server is digging a massive pit, so some variety is always welcome). Anyway, hope this does better than previous propositions to help deckies. Good luck, and make sure to message me if you need help with anything.

I only read half of your post because I got bored of reading mid way but i like your idea ;).

Like those above, people just don’t understand when to stop.

I’ve got an abundance of captain gear, and it used to be the case that when one died, I’d issue them a set. But, that would evolve into ‘Got any stone brick I could borrow?’ or ‘Could I have some wood?’ ‘Do you have any iron handy?’

But, good on you 😛

Although I do not mean in any way to criticise or undermine the clear good you mean to do with this, I feel as though it is unnecessary. I remember my first day on the server and I was given no starting items nor did I ask for any, in fact I lost what little I recieved upon logging in by drowning after jumping off the ship. I managed to survive, and I know of plenty of others who have done the same. Provided the deckies are not new to the game then they will know how to become self sufficient.

As well as this, most deckies will never become regular to this server but will leave. Any help they recieve will be wasted because they will not log in again. Because of this combined with the fact that any player can become self sufficient with no external help and also taking into account the demanding and ungrateful (I’ve even had a deckie try to kill me after I helped them) nature of a significant amount of deckies I really feel as though your time would be better spent on another project.

Bear in mind I am writing this with the idea that you will not enjoy doing this as much as you would other projects. If this is something that would be fun for you then by all means go ahead; that is the purpose of a computer game after all.

Good luck with whatever you choose to do.