Okay, I feel *really* dumb.

My utmost apologies for my grievances presented, as I have literally just found this sticky http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=21480.0

Now, would it be an illegal thing to attempt a basic drawing of the city with lines leading to those locations?  Would I not be able to share it?

A better suggestion would be to just put a mini-map in game...

And perhpas posting the sticky I mentioned on the homepage of the entire game, instead of simply in the forums?

That sticky holds the keys to most of the n00b questions.... and in-game, no one referred me to it...

::Mental note::  Read the stickies!!!!

I haven't played this since the previous major release, with the crystal hunting....

Now, this game is worse.

I also seem to have problems getting any help in game...

Luckily, I stayed online for 3 hours, in town, running around and asking constantly...  finally got some answers and was able to get started...

Couldn't there be a "generic" first quest, with a complete, total walkthrough posted (with pictures), so total newbies can get proper help to just get into the game?

I know we have the guide.... it isn't bad, but it also doesn't say enough to give a new player actually started.

I must have picked the wrong race, as my character is slow as hell.  It is tortue just to walk from the tavern to the blacksmith. 

Why didn't I start with enough money to buy SOMETHING?  I picked my character's history SPECIFICALLY to have starting money.  I got nothing.  And there is only ONE person to sell rat crap to?  And all you can tell us is their NAME?!  I can't find an in game map, so a NAME does me no good.  The village is a mess!  I get lost in 2 turns.

There should at least be a map of the starting village, with ONE mission entrance (like the sewer access), and enough detail to see the dead ends.  Leave it to the players to fill in their own notes...

Or make an in game map.  This is ridiculous for people that haven't been playing this forever... 

And where is the complete list of valid NPC interactions?  No one knows what I mean when I say "Where can I find steel stock", or "Where is steel stock", or "How do I get steel" or anything that would make SENSE to ask!  "Where is the tavern" gets me "Follow the sound"  THERE IS NO SOUND FROM THE TAVERN.  Just give us a crappy map and compass.  Make it so the player has to create it, I don't care... just some sort of GPS...  This is *really* frustrating, since nobody feels like talking 95% of the time.

Roleplaying is fine and dandy, just get a channel/room/whatever that has people talking normal words about how to play.  The 'help' room is a good idea, but having to click to see the damage I'm dealing in a fight, then clicking back to see the chat.... sucks.  Spilt the tabs on that window to individual windows... and support 1280 x 960 please!

It's nice to see how far this has gotten, but something was definately lost between this version and the last one....  Something that made the old one, where all you could do is pick up gems and buy items of no use, much more fun than this.

I have never played an MMORPG besides the earlier version of this and one other failed free mmorpg...  I really want to, but cannot afford to pay to play something I might not get to play often...

Where could I possibly find enough information to get a stupid quest completed?  Am I *NOT* supposed to do a quest?  There needs to be more direction, at least until the 'birth affects' stuff can actually affect the player character.  I can't even figure out how to get a weapon... let alone how to train in it, or anything else to do with "normal" rpg elements.