Right now, I have tested EVERY NPC I could find. The manual says to say \"give me a quest\" to get one. The responces were NEVER to actually give a quest, from what I understand, the NPC\'s are either understanding MISspellings OR all quests are simply BROKEN.
SO as things stand...at the moment...killing rats and running around exploring are the ONLY things to do. And there just are NOT enough easily located rats to go around (three spawns that I could find in four hours searching...and repeated deaths due to falling into water for more than 15 players at one point. Three or four on each spawn and three or four players wandering around looking for another rat spawn location.)
And right now you need enough PP and cash to train mining to FULL first level theoretical knoweldge or you can\'t even START to mine...which as I understand it is the BEST way to gain cash.
So YES, the brand new player has a world of hurt on them. A community that is ANTI newbie, or at least HARSH on us, unaware of our situation, and not enough mobs that new players can kill and little other way if ANY that they can gain cash OR level skills.