Instead of doing an area rewrite/add next time someone has the itch, design a comprehensive quest that will take a newbie from 1 to 11 in ~1 hour and outfit them with everything they need to be competitive in that time frame.

So, class appropriate gear (from the relevant places), a bag with food, a couple of drink containers. A light-ish raft... A recall potion or two, a teleport potion or three, ~5k gold in the bank and perhaps flight, prot vs. align, and enlarge/reduce. Basically everything a vet who was planning to start pking at level 11 would have, but gathered quickly-ish so that someone who is new to the game can hit the ground running fairly quickly.

A quick primer on trip/bash lag and perhaps a pk-like NPC arena style battle would be nice to throw in. Basically you run around and grab a bunch of stuff quickly, and get thrown into the deep end like back when 5k exp put you in PK range.

And yes, I do expect I would use said quest, but perhaps you have to answer yes to the are you a newbie question (which has some drawbacks like no brief) to be eligible for the quest.

Sure, the newb will still die horribly, but hopefully they will remember where to get stuff to get back on their feet from the quest they just did. So if they really tried they could be ready to go again in under an hour by following roughly the same steps.

Thoughts?