instead of offering auto farms, you could offer basic gear. if you get your hands on a skeleton or zombie spawner, you can save the gear from it to offer to a newbie. not as great as iron gear, but for non-captains, and players that have nothing it’s better than nothing. any combination of basic gear, maybe some cooked potatoes, or carrots, and some stone tools is enough to send a newbie on their way to starting off.
in my experience, some of the new players ive gone out of my way to help though haven’t stuck around. the players I give tons of stuff to, even helping them find a base, sometimes they just don’t stay. can be any number of reasons, but I think one reason may be, it takes away from the satisfaction of getting stuff yourself. also, some newbies just start to become reliant on the help and become leeches. when those players don’t get what they want, and get curb stomped, they get pissy, and leave.
id suggest you give some basic help for a bit, don’t overdo it, and then send them on their merry way. if they suck at surviving and lose their stuff, its up to them whether they want to be a whiney @#$%^&*() about it or suck it up and keep trying. the whiney ones personally I think pmc can do without.
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