HELPING NEW PLAYERS
HOW MUCH HELP TO GIVE
This is where you need to figure out what kind of player the newbod is (see the list above). You do this by asking a couple of questions. Start out with "Is this your first time in Fed?" If she is a returning player she will tell you that she used to play on AOL/GEnie/whatever.
If she is completely new to Fed, then you can ask her how she found the game. If she tells you she came from The Mud Connector, or she saw our listing on another game site, then it's a fair bet that she is familiar with MUDs and just needs to be helped with the Fed-specific stuff. It is most likely that this kind of player will want to be left to figure things out on their own, asking questions on the comms when she gets stuck.
If the player says she hasn't played this kind of game before, she is going to need considerably more help.
