Help a Sprout!

[silverhope]

With heavensward just around the corner I think its time for established players to give back and help the new players joining us be for the xpac. As many of you know the sprout icon shows up when someone is under a certain time played. So to show how FFXIV can be a great community if you see a sprout...

Offer some help
Ask how there doing
Donate some gil
Invite them to a LS or FC

Many people might already do this but lets get awareness out there and make ffxiv community something people want to join and not run away from!

[Chiramu]

Inviting newbies straight to a LS/FC without knowing them is a little bit intrusive, what if they do not want to join straight away while they get their bearings? I think that people will join and FC when they are ready for it, when I started playing in early access with my BF we did not want to join an FC asap :/.

Sometimes doing things like this might be a little overbearing. I usually cast Stoneskin on all lowbies and newbies levelling in the low areas however and I /wave ^^.

[silverhope]

Inviting newbies straight to a LS/FC without knowing them is a little bit intrusive, what if they do not want to join straight away while they get their bearings? I think that people will join and FC when they are ready for it, when I started playing in early access with my BF we did not want to join an FC asap :/.

Sometimes doing things like this might be a little overbearing. I usually cast Stoneskin on all lowbies and newbies levelling in the low areas however and I /wave ^^.

talking to new players and offering and forcing are to different things there is a decline button for a reason.

[Chiramu]

talking to new players and offering and forcing are to different things there is a decline button for a reason.

In WoW, when you make a lowbie character you are bombarded with guild invites. It is so bad, the developers made an in-game function that automatically turns off guild invites >.>.

A decline button doesn't mean it is not annoying .

[silverhope]

In WoW, when you make a lowbie character you are bombarded with guild invites. It is so bad, the developers made an in-game function that automatically turns off guild invites >.>.

A decline button doesn't mean it is not annoying .

I understand your issue with it but im not saying to jsut walk up and invite anyone, if your talking wtih a person or helping them and say "if you have anyother questions let me no, and if you would like a LS that helps new players let me know"

[DreadRabbit]

In WoW, when you make a lowbie character you are bombarded with guild invites. It is so bad, the developers made an in-game function that automatically turns off guild invites >.>.

A decline button doesn't mean it is not annoying .

In lower pop servers like Zalera this happens. It's almost borderline harassment the way some FCs target sprouts. I've seen a lot of new players join one just to stop the invites without having to go /busy or they don't know about /busy yet.

So yes, please. Ask the sprouts before you send them a FC invite ^^/ Those invites can be just as intrusive as the RMT spam, believe it or not.

[Wournsfeik_Untawhasyn]

In lower pop servers like Zalera this happens. It's almost borderline harassment the way some FCs target sprouts. I've seen a lot of new players join one just to stop the invites without having to go /busy or they don't know about /busy yet.

So yes, please. Ask the sprouts before you send them a FC invite ^^/ Those invites can be just as intrusive as the RMT spam, believe it or not.

Yeah, it's basically this on Zalera, when I was running around without an FC for a while I'd get one every once and a while just out of nowhere, sometimes I'd decline and I'd get another from the same folks immediately.

Like c'mon, if you want to invite someone bad enough to hit them with 2 invites the very least you can do is say 'hi', right? Take em out to dinner , woo em just a bit. Doesn't have to be like a rigorous screening process, but something.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Sometimes doing things like this might be a little overbearing. I usually cast Stoneskin on all lowbies and newbies levelling in the low areas however and I /wave ^^.

Yeah I remember when I played my first MMO (FFXI) and I first learned how to go outside and fight, the first time someone went by me and cast cure and protect on me, I felt like it was the coolest thing that another person cast a helpful spell on me. Granted I was like 12 at the time, but just goes to show that even something so simple as casting a couple of beneficial spells can leave an impression on someone that lasts for years.

[AlexanderThorolund]

I always keep an eye on new people from a distance that are leveling and if they need to be healed or revived ill help them out. When i was a new person and was dead with level 50s walking past my dead body was very disheartening so im stamping that culture out. (^0^)

[Defteros]

the sprout icon doesn't necessarily mean that they are new players....

they could be someone's alt xD