Well i was very expectant of this mud. So,i signed up. The mud is big, with a plentiful amount of players. Very well detailed, and in depth as well. But, as a newbie i discovered the hard way that the help files are too convoluted to be of any real aid. They bombard you with at least THREE pages of information at a time expecting you to remember it all. You do get a skull guide, but he almost constantly spams your screen with the same information over and over again, which also adds to the annoyance of figuring out the files.

And this mud has a tendency to leave a newbie stranded, entering a room with no exit expecting the new player to remember the long paragraph that was presented to them in the beginning in order to use an object to escape.

Now about the 'newbie friendly' part... I found out that to be a complete fallacy. There were over 100 players on and only 1-2 people would even offer aid to me, and yes, i did ask for it (and i even received a few insults because of it).

So all in all i would say that if the Help Files were reduced into manageable formats, commands for objects included in said help files and the veteran players actually 'newbie friendly' and not judgmental of a new (possibly confused) player, i would highly suggest this mud. But unfortunately it is not so. This unfortunately will be my first and last time playing this mud. I might try it again to see if things have changed, and if they have not i'm afraid that i would just quit again.