Your character achieved a great presence in the game, it made my characters walk with dread. Great job.

All the things you complained of I agree with to a certain degree but the solution is pretty simple. Make more quests that give people insights to the game and give a framework for a specific class race newbie path. Neutral neutral human assassin comes to mind. Post the framework on the forum and have access in game to it.

Gear, preps, and techniques to play the great characters are harder to come by but that does help make the game fun. I have no OOC friends here nor do I want to learn via that path. I think you may overestimate the amount of issue players but then again whenever I read Dio's I find myself thinking they are all in cahoots. :P