As for this original thread, all that kind of boot camp will achieve is to concentrate all the worst experiences onto the potential new players. An effective way to stop new blood cold.

What about a harm minimisation strategy instead. You wont stop new recruits turning up and then leaving when they ...

Hi Queen Herpes,

Nice idea but I think it's too much. The only ones left at the end will be 12 year olds and those who cant think for themselves. Reasonable players will work it out in three or four games. The rest are lost already.

I dont think you should extend the number of games available. As a noob, the worst thing about the site is other noobs pulling out of their game and me waiting 5 days to play one move. More games might help but I think it just lets New recruits do more damage and in the end is less effective.

I ...

Hello all,

as a noob, I think that banning the freestyle game for us is a mistake.

As much as I enjoy the type of game that CC is, two weeks into this and I'm frustrated and bored already. Not because of the core nature of CC but because I spend too much time waiting.
In one of my four games, 3 ...

Hi, as a ' noob' I am not totally dopey but I found the world cup map very confusing. It had no clearly marked boundaries and no reasonably accessible explanation for what is otherwise an unusual map. I had three choices - ignore it (not very sporting), try really hard to find other resources that ...