Begging For Dummies

3) Visit Global Chat (GC). Say hi. Most likely, veterans will be watching and recognize you as a new player. Many vets routinely send new players resources and goods with no expectations - it's just being nice and welcoming to new players to the Illy community.

4) If you visit GC and you see inbound caravans, you should upgrade your Storehouse to increase the amount of basic resources you can receive. Resources that exceed your storage capacity are lost forever - poof. If that happens, do not worry. There will be more, just visit GC again.

Some have said that I advise new players to ask for resources.  Please note that all I advise is for new players to say Hi on GC.  No more than that.

My basic Welcome Wagon is 500 each: gold, basics, food.  Once I am better established I will include 50 books (1K RP).  I started doing this because I believe that 1) the tutorial rewards are much too light; 2) the initial inventory of supplies is much too light; 3) the early build phase takes much too long; and 4) for the foregoing reasons, most new players quit Illy before leaving player protection.

I rarely provide additional resources beyond my initial Welcome Wagon.  With others providing Welcome Wagons these days, I also do not send very many these days.

The begging and demanding resources is impolite at best.

I think providing new players with weapons is a mistake.  It encourages them to build a too small army too soon.  The tax support drags early production.  The small army is bait for slightly larger players to kill and earn XP.  If they don't build an army, then the goods are an invitation to thieves.

The goal of all us that try to help newbs should be to "teach them to fish."  We should not overwhelm the newbs with resources so that they never develop their internal economy.  I have encountered many newbs that have huge (100K) storage capacity but only produce 100/hr internally.  This is NOT good for the newb.

A newb should not need a storehouse over level 7.  That storage is more than adequate to handle resources for making a level 3 Mage Tower and developing internal resource production.  Beyond that the newb should strive for self-sufficiency.