>1. I'm not going to waste my time or energy getting into
>RP'ing a character when they're just gonna die repeatedly.

Then, as much as it pains me to do so, I humbly suggest CF is not the game for you. Everybody dies repeatedly when they're starting out. Hell, there are current cabal leaders who die repeatedly. Somehow they still manage to have fun.

>While most people can tolerate a few failures as a learning
>experience, they do not play games to repeatedly fail. Enough
>failures and you simply throw your hands up in disgust. By
>deleting, I'm reading the tea leaves and avoiding getting to
>the point of disgust.

Avoiding getting to the point of disgust, in this case, would be ceasing to play CF. What you've done is create a scenario where you repeatedly get to the point of disgust but aren't able to learn how to keep it from happening.

>When you're looking at 5k to level and you're getting
>20xp from a kill it'll take forever.

Usually. But, to be fair, much depends on how taxing each kill is. Sometimes 20xp per kill can be efficient ranking if the mobs die in 2 rounds, they're plentiful, and you never have to rest and/or let the area repop. Especially if there are other positive aspects to the area, such as "nobody is going to look for me here" or "I will almost always see someone coming if they try to attack me here".

>While you may have the
>patience for that, most people want some challenge. It's the
>same reason people jump out of perfectly good airplanes.

Well, again, if you can't be happy avoiding tough mobs and you can't be happy if you fight tough mobs and occasionally die, then there seems to be no possible way for you to be happy.