So let me get this straight...

[DirtyOldHobo]

From reading up a bit, what I get out of this is some guy stealing a hat from another guy, so a third guy takes revenge by...killing new players? What? That train of thought makes no sense.

slightly off topic..
From an evolutionary perspective, humour, and laughter, evolved as a coping mechanism for reacting in a non aggressive way to a situation that does not make sense. In that train of thought, good old absurdism is probably the most ancient of senses of humour. Maybe humans did not evolve in Africa after all, but in the UK.

I can see it being slightly harder to appreciate, if you are on the recieving end of the joke in this case. But quite simply, if you can just see this as a valuable lesson, you might just have a good time here, if you can't get over it, there's 10 thousands of games out there that have new player protection mechanics.

Please explain to me what 'valuable lesson' getting utterly massacred for zero good reason brings. What lesson is there to be found in a game where the players prevent you from playing? At that point, the only winning move is not to play.

[Tamasin]

lesson one: you should have read the forums a bit. had you done this you'd have known to expect this behaviour from the tribe.

lesson two: you should have taken some basic precautions eg: settling far from boston.

[martinuzz]

valuable lessons

- do not make camp so close to main town that people can find you within the first day of playing. The world is absolutely insanely huge. The wilderness spawn option will usually give you enough distance from civilization
- don't invite people to your camp you don't know (dunno if you did)
- do not accept goods from strangers. There are ways those can be used to locate you
- don't livestream images showing the minimap of your location

[TeckXKnight]

valuable lessons

- do not make camp so close to main town that people can find you within the first day of playing. The world is absolutely insanely huge. The wilderness spawn option will usually give you enough distance from civilization
- don't invite people to your camp you don't know (dunno if you did)
- do not accept goods from strangers. There are ways those can be used to locate you

Lets be honest here, they're not going to learn that from being killed. The only thing that was learned is that other players will be ***** to you if given half the chance. =)

[Tamasin]

they did stuff which resulted in their deaths. i think this would teach them not to do those things again.

[martinuzz]

valuable lessons

- do not make camp so close to main town that people can find you within the first day of playing. The world is absolutely insanely huge. The wilderness spawn option will usually give you enough distance from civilization
- don't invite people to your camp you don't know (dunno if you did)
- do not accept goods from strangers. There are ways those can be used to locate you

Lets be honest here, they're not going to learn that from being killed. The only thing that was learned is that other players will be ***** to you if given half the chance. =)

Yes yes, you are right. I was too helpful there, I shouldn't have given that away.

[Kaios]

they did stuff which resulted in their deaths. i think this would teach them not to do those things again.

Not really if they don't have the slightest clue as to what they did wrong. They logged in the game and started playing, ***** them for that though is what you're saying, right?

[DirtyOldHobo]

Sorry, but we didn't quite expect such a hostile environment when we entered, especially when Aavak(the streamer) said that so far in his couple days he had in Salem prior to the stream he only met nice people.

There was dozens of people with more flowing in all the time. People cannot use your home spawn to teleport to you unless you have an advanced claim thingy. In all honesty, would you want to be the dedicated person ferrying people back and forth as a guide as they joined into the game? And even then, someone would have most likely seen this traveling band of new characters going back and forth and caught wind of it anyway. It would have been near impossible to hide.

Somebody could have followed us, but if they did we didn't know about it, so there was no inviting of random people, and same for goods.

So yeah, your lessons don't really work in this instance.

[Tamasin]

i don't see why anyone not retarded wouldn't think to at least investigate what basic precautions they should take in a permadeath game. having died, they should definitely have learnt that they should have done so.

[neored9]

Sorry, but we didn't quite expect such a hostile environment when we entered, especially when Aavak(the streamer)

What did you expect from a an open world pvp, full loot, perma death game? Did he really not mention anything about that when getting people to play?

It would have been near impossible to hide.

Well this is you and the streamer not knowing how to play, it's actually really easy to hide.