[MrHyde]

Something I have saw in other games which could help here is a starter quest chain. With rewards that help a noob get started into the game.

Could start of something along the lines of, hi welcome to awakenedLands ill be your guide in this early stage of life. Your looking a bit scrawny time to hit the gym I think, (after they hit next the screen changes and there is an arrow pointing at gym) welcome to the gym here you can train your stats to be a better melee or ranged fighter, (then have a break down of what each stat does for you, e.g dex helps in some crimes, dodging etc. ) After they train could go on to about how happyness plays a big part of gyms trains, when they finish that they get a reward, i.e enought money to buy there first gun, Could say here is $XXX go get yourself a weapon.

Could do this for crimes, school, skills, opening a bank account, their first fight, buying a house, equiping items, using the shops, traveling, using stims or food, all the sort of stuff that we take for granted and a new player would be totaly lost by. Then when they finish the whole chain they get a weeks Donater status and a bit about how it can help etc to wet the mouth.

An other thing that could help new players is say 50 items to get out of jail and 50 items to get out of Hospital with full hp. They would be non-trable and only work up to say level 5, because there is nothing more off putting than starting a game and ending up in jail and not able to do anything about it.