>I suspect the real issue is
>that a lot of players
>put in some time to
>have 100%'s and assumed that
>hardly anyone was doing the
>same. The reality is
>that a lot of people
>were. Of those that
>didn't, some were utter newbies
>who would have lost to
>these midbies anyway, and some
>were top-end players who didn't
>have the skills and were
>treating the practiced midbies like
>real convicts treat white-collar criminals
>in a maximum security prison
>anyway.

So I am back to square one.

The earlier posts led me to believe that as a newbie I must avoid junk like practicing for hours at an end,doing reruns of kobolds and kittens for hours at a time and get on with life as they don't help much in the grander scheme of life and here it is stated that of the minority who don't some are experienced players and others are greenbies who would have lost anyway!!

So I interpret it as practice your skills,everyone is doing it and so should you unless you wanna get kicked but for the newbies it is like don't bother as you get kicked anyway?
So I did better start practicing real fast here beacuse NOBODY IS AVOIDING THE PRACTICING TRAP!!