Editing New Player Startup (section)

== Introductions ==
After you've signed up on the main site and created your gang, you'll end up on the web management interface of Darkwind. Here is where you'll plan your long term stuff, buy and sell things, recruit people and so on, while the client (Game) is more specialized toward participating in events. You can subscribe to events from both, so you can just fire up the client to start playing and getting the feeling of the game.
The client interface is pretty straightforward:

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There is a big panel showing the global game chat (which is also available in game), there is a panel which shows the upcoming events to which you may register and the live events that you may spectate (or play if registered) and there is a panel listing the current players. It would be '''really''' unusual to be alone in the Lobby, so the first thing you should do is introduce yourself.  A simple, 'Hi. I'm new' should suffice, and lets the veteran players and [[Marshals]] (players whose names are bracketed by asterisks (*)) know that you are new, and may need some help getting up and running.