This game is great but has a horrible community.

I'm new to KAG and I've only just started playing yesterday. That being said, I am astounded by how mean and downright terrible this game's community is. This game is not newbie friendly.

In the first game I played, while trying to figure out how the catapult worked, I accidentally shot one of our team's towers. I was then frozen, accused of being a griefer and the mods attempted to ban me (but couldn't figure out how to do it). Even after I tried to explain what happened over and over again.

In my next game, I was trying to make a shortcut under a tower and accidentally caused the tower to collapse (I sometimes forget that all parts of a building need to be connected to the floor unlike Terraria). I was called a griefer and vote-kicked from the server - while I apologized and tried to explain that I was new.

Just shameful overall and it makes me not want to play this obviously wonderful game which is truly sad.

 

I'm sorry you had such a rough first experience! Unfortunately, a lot of otherwise respectable and patient players have grown jaded because new players such as yourself-with genuine intent to learn and enjoy the game-- are relatively rare. Most will build horrible structures and get terribly angry when approached with constructive criticism.

Anywho, the server you're playing on has a lot to do with the experience you'll have; the big popular servers have sensible staff and zero tolerance for team-hindering actions-even unintentional ones--, while smaller ones probably have incompetent staff or none at all. Just keep playing! With how the game is instanced, nobody's going to hold a grudge against you unless you're hindering them intentionally and repeatedly.

 

In a month, if you're still playing, you'll start shifting towards the same attitude. If someone is "creating a tunnel" through your tower, you'll holler "griefer!" and try your damnedest to get him kicked before he collapses that thing.

Getting kicked isn't so bad. Just don't do it intentionally and you won't be permabanned.

Also, protip: you don't want to have a tunnel through your tower, anyway. I can't believe no one in here has said that yet. you want at least 6 blocks of height (in my opinion exactly 6) before your first way through. gl;hf hope you figure it all out!

 

HUGE hint: this community may be one of the MOST frienldy ones!
you can ASK anyone, for almost anything, and they'll answer you.
theres lots of sandbox worlds, where you can learn about the game with other people,
and for fighting practice, go to a RDM (Rapid Death-Match) server.
the reason they are a little anti-griefing, is because griefing is so terribly easy in KAG.
just get up, and try again. eventually you'll understand what you should and shouldnt do.
when I was still a newbie, I got kicked over and over!

 

Don't play as a builder as a newbie.

Let me say that again: Don't play as a builder as a newbie.

Knights are mostly expendable and if one dies (basically the worst that could happen) it's not a big deal. An incompetent/new builder, on the other hand, is a rage-inducing team destroyer.

 

Going to be the devils advocate here but a few things I don't really get...
A few things:
1)I'm not sure that NO SINGLE PERSON in the entire team didn't warn you about not doing what you were doing.
2)Playing a builder without proper knowledge in KAG is the same as playing a spy without knowing how to backstab in TF2.
In both cases you become useless, but here you can become a hindrance too. (you was told this before in this thread)
3)You shouldn't judge the whole community by reasons like those, in most cases the actions they took were justified( in my opinion at least) and then again even if you got banned on a few servers you could make a ban appeal or play on another.

I mean, its getting a bit of old.
The whole community sucking because one single person has had a bad first experience.

 

There are sub forums for builders, knights and archers.
Instead of writing about how bad their experience was shouldn't they be looking for good guides there and learn from their mistakes?
Sure I do try to help when I see an inexperienced player but as you said before those often end up with "screw you" and silence.
I mean, its pretty normal to be overwhelmed when starting the game and make such mistakes but judging the whole community by what some random pubs do isn't really going to change things.

 

Mostly the Pubby Players. 80%ish of the gold community is okay.

 

You have it the wrong way around. When I first started playing the non-gold players were pretty nice, and minded their own business. As soon as a few premium players came on to the server, they were swearing at the pubs and calling them noobs, and all that funky stuff. Half of the premium players I have had the 'privilege' to meet are complete and utter dick heads.

 

Does that not leave some gold member room to be dicks? :>

 

Like I said, wrong way round. 80% are dicks, the rest are okay. I like being non-premium, no one expects much out of me. The only downfall is that you get called a hacker if you are above average.

Edit: Heres a little story of my first post on the forums. I post a smart comment. Some guy called 'gofio' calls me out for being a 'smartus noobus' or some shit. So that started a whole flame war. You premium fellows just think you're better then us because you paid some cash for a few virtual hats, and a zombie mode which I hear is quite boring, but I how would I know, I am just some noob.

 

There are dicks, premium and non premium.
Deal with it, as for you FBB you have a point.
If I see you raging Ill tell you to give it a rest and hope everyone else does it for me too.

 

This. The game should inform new players that being a builder is complicated. Maybe servers should be able to whitelist the builder class with seclevs (new players would default to archer and knight only). Or is that already possible?

 

If you want to play as builder play as builder but do something helpful, you see a team mate building tower go ask him about helping him, bring him resources if you don't know what to do, unless he tells you "hey buddy build some workshops", only modify towers to their original state, if they get damaged fix them but do not make sudden changes, every player even myself gets angry when you run back from battlefield back to op to buy bombs or arrows and suddenly wall is damaged and can't climb it back, same with building approach if you build a tower or wall make sure there is always passage in both ways so people don't get anxious.

Another great builder trait is about being fast thinker and quick builder especially if you are offensive builder like me, you have to learn to switch between blocks really efficiently, if you see a teammate in trouble who can't get out of the pit; is stuck make sure you help him in first place, it's all about helping each other in this game it's not about being rock stars, you will get some glory if you help a lot.

Last thing I wanna share is don't build massive pits/pits with spikes it's not safe for team mates and it's also really easy to block pits then walk across, it's simply rendered as useless time and material waste considering spikes cost 10 stone and you remove them with one click and digging takes precious time, best traps are the ones placed smartly or designed in specific way for low material cost.

Short summary, you have to be smart, fast thinking and efficient builder if you want to run to battlefield make sure you never pack yourself full of resources, take 100 stone and 100 wood if you are lucky someone might drop more resources.

 

The forums are full of suggestions. Very few people read a forum before they try a game. The problem is how to get this information to them when they start.